Yeah, I have said this before. A friends father was a director of a branch of a college. He called them "Velcro parents" You thought helicopter parents are bad? These are like that x100. Their kids can't do anything without their parents somehow being involved. It is fucking pathetic.
I cooked for myself on a gas stove when I still needed a step stool to get to the top of the stove. I washed my own dishes. Some people would consider that abuse now. You know what? That is what it was like up until about 100 years ago. "Modern" kids would just starve to death.
Good on you for actually teaching your kids and not just letting the system babysit and brainwash them.
We've already told our kids, when then have kids, we are retiring and they don't need to worry about day care or school. We are going to home school.our grandkids. I'm hopeful that one day my daughter will want to just not work and only work on her kids and home.
Damn, sounds great as long as you live near by. They will be reading before they are at a kindergarten level. Public schools are not built to let you excel, they are built to keep you back and to cater to the lowest level. When you have a bunch of less than room temp IQ's around you and that is what they teach for...
You get so bored you stop paying attention and it hurts you later in life. I am guessing you don't have to ask me how I know.
I have a friend who has an 8 year old and a 6 year old. She home schools them and they are years ahead of where they normally would be in public school. The 8 year old is doing grade 8 material and the 6 year old is doing grade 7 material. The kids are close and the older one helps the younger one, and shares the way to remember things with the younger one. The kicker is she says that she only spends 2-3 hours per day on school work, the rest of the time she is teaching them real life skills.