Hi fellow Edders,
Today I wanted to laugh a bit about kids and their interests!
Kid Sized Job
One thing that I as well as hopefully many parents realize, is that kids will learn things in their own time!
Our son has been a bit challenging when it comes to the educational department let me tell you! Lol. We've got him in some programs to help him learn alongside the stuff we are doing at home and we had a teacher the other day tell us "he is behind, he isn't learning like he should!"
What I think is unfortunate is when people are trying to jam kids into a metaphorical small box when it comes to their learning and how they are developing. This teacher is good at her job and is very smart in her own right but she is only seeing a small snippet of our son's life and it's focused only on the time she spends with him to help him read, remember his letters and most recently start doing some math.
What she doesn't see is the passion our son has for other things that actually interest him such as doing these various manual labor jobs at home! With our son, and I think a fair amount of young boys, is they are very active physically and don't care too much for the soft stuff like letters and numbers. They can help you build things, move stuff and do all the great physical work but aren't as interested as they are in this, with basic things like learning how to read.
We are in the process of moving and it's been a little difficult as it always is when you are moving but what's been fun for him is being able to help with things like this. He has a lot of passion when it comes to using tools, building or dismantling things and doing physical work. He insisted I let him do as much of this as I could by himself and he did quite the good job! I was naturally trying to show him what he should do and he fought me on it to try and show his independence but overall he did great on many fronts which was nice to see.
A big thing for kids, when they are able to be in their desired element is they thrive and do excellent with things that interest them. Trying to jam them into a box that is meant for everyone will naturally not work for a significant amount of them. I think the way education is undertaken in the world today is thankfully changing more towards parents being empowered to drive the education that their children undergo. Kids can certainly hit milestones like reading "x" number of books by "x" age which I don't necessarily disagree with in some aspects. What I think is shifting is the leeway we are able to have to guide them in the direction we want them to go instead of being dictated at by a public school system and be largely disconnected from their education entirely.
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So true man. My youngest isn’t old enough to deal with that yet, but the doctor tells us at every checkup that she is slightly behind the growth curve, and asks about her diet etc. Ultimately I appreciate that he’s keeping an eye on these metrics, but in reality, she eats healthy food and is growing the way her body wants to grow. People weren’t meant to fit into little boxes!
Looks like your kid’s doing awesome to me!
My eldest was always below on growth curves, except for her height, which was average. The health visitor was never worried about it, though. Today she is taller than her dad!
Sounds exactly like my youngest! It’s always hair ties and safety pins holding her pants up 🤣
Lol! That sounds very familiar. With both my girls, in fact, but more so my eldest.
LOL! It’s so cute :)
That’s good the doc is keeping an eye on it but hopefully they don’t try and push for testing or something. People will grow at their own rate! It’s especially important the things the kiddos eat, lots don’t think about that sadly!
Thanks man, it’s got it’s days that’s for sure. Some days it’s like he forgets important things for school but he never forgets tools and his work he enjoys lol so we know it’s fine.
They’ve mentioned it, but so far haven’t wanted to push for it. I think my little girl is healthy as a horse, so personally I hope they continue to pretty much leave it alone :)
Kids have their own strengths and weaknesseses, as I have also personally witnessed with mine. It is challenging, but as long as us parents have faith and keep on empowering our children, they will find their way.
Cheers!
Thanks I totally agree! Thankfully he’s getting better at things on the school side which is good but it amuses me and also annoys me a little bit that the teacher is so pushy about him not learning. I’m not worried about it I just wish they would stop pestering lol. We know if he’s passionate about it he picks it up no issues!
Thanks, I am glad to hear you could see similar strengths and weaknesses in your kids as they grew up!
for the little man 🤗
Thanks June :D how are you?!
@matt-archy touched on this in his podcast this week. Or more his wife did. Kids learn when they are ready and when they are ready, they learn much faster than when you drag them through it too soon.
That’s cool I’ll have to listen to that thanks! I know the kids definitely do things at their own pace. It’s just arguing with “teachers” who want you to crush your kid into a box. That’s annoying!
Thankfully I've never really had to deal with that. I've only heard about it. Even the girls' old teachers were supportive when I saw them and mentioned I was homeschooling now. Maybe it's my resting bitch face that puts people off questioning me. 🤣
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It does! The kids do things on their own time for sure!