Leading article: Home tutors need guidance
You know, I think articles like this make me even angrier than ones where they patently obviously don’t understand home education. This one purports to be thoughtful, and is even more ignorant than most. 🙁 I shall be finding an address to write to, and challenging them on many of their points.
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7 responses to “From The independent”
We had someone for PAT on Radio Scotland this morning, spouting the same nonsenses.. Arrgh! I can’t do the no-see typing. I’ll stop before I reach full rant alert.
try it now Joyce, should be fine.
and in Mozilla, works there too…
I’m just testing the comments to see if they work (getting to the point any minute now…..and its a new issue. Sorry Jax. What is happening now is that rather than staying static, it now jumps to the left when you reach the end of the line, so that you then can’t see where you have come from, as the LHS is obscured 🙁 Oh – and the say it button disappears as well, so I’ll keep typing till it jumps back to the right. Nearly there – well almost – and minute now ………….GOT IT
testing, testing, one two three – need to type more to see what happens yes it seems fine well thats good then, and nice weather we’ve been having too mind you you would expect it for this time of year really wouldn’t you – yep thats fixed, well done Jax, another of the minor irritations to my day banished! can you do anything similar with quirks in children? 🙂
Merry…You are one of the most articulate people I know (of) You blog is in a different league to all of the others I read. You clearly have a talent with words and that comes across in your blog and makes even your boring days sparkle with merry-ness You are clearly a loving mum, a good honest person and someone who puts her family before anything else in her life.
It does strike me however that you don’t like yourself very much. This may, or may not be as a result of your childhood. I think you blame your parents lack of interest in you as anything other than an academic achiever. It is sad to read that you want your children’s life to be so radically different to your that you may forget what is best for them at times. You want their education; social life and everything else to be the complete opposite to yours…is this so that they will be nothing like you? Do you dislike yourself that much? What is fran wanted be a high academic success would that mean you had failed? You need to sit down and ask yourself if what you are doing is for their sake or to lay some of your old ghosts?
You also mention that your schooling made you a person who is susceptible to bullying. I would like to argue that point. You are a person that bullies herself. You CLAIM to be bullied as you can DO something about the alleged bullies and try to stop them. What you really want to do is stop the horrid niggling doubts and fears that you are not good enough. You have the power to make these thoughts go away they come from within you no from others.
I do believe that you did not have your needs met as a child. But why not let that go now? Why not move on and forget the past..get rid of the ponies the old books and toys let them go. Holding on to them to remind you of an unhappy past is not logical is it? All of those silly thoughts and memories that you keep going over are stealing your childrens time with you. Let them go and start to love yourself for who you are.
Remarkably insightful!