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i’ve had all 3 worlds— homeschooled until high school, private school, and then a public university. these are the patterns i’ve seen with those who were homeschooled for their formative years!
my husband met enough homeschooled adults to be able to compare his own experience with what he saw— and it’s what convinced him for us to homeschool our kids for their formative years as well.
homeschoolers are numb to their own cringe, and it’s one of their best qualities🔥
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Unfair advantages that homeschool kids have that convince my public school raised husband to homeschool our kids, part one, they are numb to their own cringe. Let me explain. The school system, by design, creates this ecosystem where kids are grouped together by age and paced all together. So as a result, your nervous system learns to organize and orient around a group and what the group is doing. Gordon Neufeld and Gabriel Mate, they call this peer orientation. So what that means is when you're spending that much time per week with a group of peers, the peers become who you start to go to to learn what is normal, what is okay, what is not okay. It's who you start seeking approval from. And if you look at that from a biological lens on how we relate to people socially, what it creates is this ecosystem that nurtures conformity to the group versus individuation. Conformity to the group standards becomes social survival. Now let's compare that with a child that is raised in a homeschool family and therefore spending the majority of their time with their family that is consciously nurturing their individualized gift. And therefore, that's tier