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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 6 Aug \ parent \ on: What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones alter_native
Ha, we had a Kumon teacher coming once a week last year, and my son was supposed to do the homework daily for math, English, and Hangeul. We quickly stopped. They use really archaic methods. Even though he had already mastered counting, they still wanted him to write hundreds of sheets of the same numbers every week. He started seeing Kumon as a chore. He's only 5 now.
We then found Wink School. Also based on self-learning, but much more entertaining, and using a more modern mindset. Still he learns a lot and asks himself when we forget to give him his daily 15 minutes of classes...
Yet, I'd rather he didn't have to do either and could just focus on school stuff at school, maybe some homework, and get to play with friends or by himself, when outside of school.
since we're homeschooling, there's not as clear a division between school and the rest of life. Perhaps this is a little risky, in that we are not always as focused as we should be, but all in all, I believe I'm seeing benefits to blurring school and life. It feels like most of what I'm doing in teaching them these days is viewpoint shaping.
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