At a loss for words. You are so right! This is such a thought-provoking post. Starting with the oh-so-true it's unmistakable like a slap on the face John Holt quote on living and learning to your own story about Google University and how your kids are learning hands-on especially the amazing Isaiah.
We had considered home schooling for our daughter when we returned to our country 2 years ago from Indonesia, but didn't have the guts to go ahead with it. As a result, my daughter who's in the third grade spends 6 hours every day at 'school' and then 2 hours at home reluctantly doing further homework from school (practise cursive writing, answer questions on how the inkjet printer differs from the dotmatrix printer, perform endless addition and subtraction problems, mug up English words for a dictation test and what not: none of which I personally feel are particularly meaningful for a 7 year old) when all she wants to do is go out and play!
And life is flying by fast. I do my own type of home schooling the rest of the time, but I'm not satisfied by it ... I'll have to ramp up my efforts. Probably take her out more, let her feel life more. Thanks so very very much for this @canadian-coconut. You woke me up with your inspiring post. Upvoted and resteeming.
What a great comment.
You are a very thoughtful, intelligent person.
I wish you the best in determining a way to make your daughter's childhood as great as possible!
You are very kind. Thank you so much @canadian-coconut! You are an inspiration.