Hello everyone! Back in spring of this year (2023) a group of homeschooling moms and I joined together on Instagram to bring together a weekly focus on homeschooling the middle and teen years, an area of homeschooling that is not well documented online, via blogs or social media. I’ve decided to bring those posts here to the blog as well, because there have been some amazing prompts and homeschooing Waldorf highschool is even less documented! Many of the posts will be general homeschooling posts and might not necessarily focus on Steiner’s indications, but they will all address universal themes in homeschooling, no matter the pedagogy. I hope you enjoy the posts! They will be collected under the tags “general homeschooling” and “#hsmiddleschoolandbeyond”. Over the next few weeks I’ll be adding all my past posts on IG to the blog.
“Aren’t you afraid your kids will be weird?”
It’s something I was asked a lot when I first started homeschooling. I think the real question they were asking was “Aren’t you afraid your kids won’t conform?”.
Well, if being weird means having kids that:
*enjoy each other’s company
*choose their interests based on experiences and not trends
*hang out with the family AND do so willingly
*respectfully stand up when they see or hear something unjust, no matter what others around them are doing
*surround themselves with people and friends of all ages
*continue being themselves even when someone tries to make them feel small
*stand strong in their beliefs even when it seems like everyone has a different stance
*openly invite others to share their views so they can learn more
*don’t do things just because they are told to, but think first and act based on their own scruples
(The list can go on and on and on)
Then yes, my kids are weird.
I hope that kids who are public schooled are also weird like this because really, I’m just over here trying to raise kind humans.
Isn’t that the goal no matter how you school?
And honestly, the weird ship sailed well before my kids were school age. It’s genetic 😁
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