nice post

Thanks for this, is schooling not mandatory there? I agree with you. Same with music, my teacher told me that the instrument is merely a tool with which to express your art.

What a wonderful post!!!  I love that you decided to unschool!!!  School anymore is just daycare for our youth..I love that you shared this post with the Steemit Family - hoping that more people will follow in your footsteps..so important for the future generations.   You are a GREAT parent!!  SUNSHINE247

So good kafkanarchy
Thanks for sharing this post
That was useful 
Upvoted

Informative piece @kafkanarchy84 although what you've said will take me some time to understand and register coming from a very traditional society and educational system. But I sure believe that the compulsory 'formal' education our children are receiving is one of the ways for the state to control the minds of their citizens.

@kafkanarchy84 -  I believe that the best way to learn is when learning is fun.  The more interesting the learning method, the faster children learn.  It has nothing to do with someone 'teaching' them.  No one 'taught' my son three languages.  He picked up one from us( his parents) and two more as he went out to play with neighborhood children.  I am sure if we had sent him for 'language class' he would have been bored and taken a long time to learn what he learnt in a month or two, playing with the kids.  I think the flash cards  are an interesting way for kids to interact and learn.  Kudos to you and your wife for making it fun for your son to learn.    I was thrilled to see how confidently your son read the Mega man II password.  He had a bit of trouble getting the concept that there were more than one numbers on the same line but his reading skill was great!  Thanks for sharing that cute video.  Upvoted.

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Nice Article 
Thanks for post
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Nice Thoughts and all Post

I laughed at this:
"Okay, kids! Now we will practice reading!......Bobby! Bobby! Come back over here and sit down! What? There's a bug on the window sill? You want to know what it is??? NOT NOW! IT IS READING TIME"

People need to be stimulated with love, they need to do things from the hearth so they can immerse themselves in what they do.. Only then does one start to learn truly by soul.. Cheers for the article it was quite nice to read.. I didn't upvote it because I'm a low powered minow, but I gave you a follow to read your stories. 
Cheers and all the best from me

Goldie

I really do agree with you on this. When kids are at school they are indoctrinated into 'the system'. And lets be honest... how much of what is taught at school is actually useful or even used in the real world. Very little in my opinion.

Personally i think kids would benefit a lot more with learning useful lifeskills whether in school or home schooled. Things like cooking, woodwork, working with money, etc. Those are useful.

I also really agree with what you said about reading being treated as a subject. This is such a huge mistake! Because many kids approach it with a reluctance. It is absolutely a fundamental part of life and very essential.

You have made some very thought provoking statements.

I think school nowadays is more for social aspect , not to study kids)  so they learn how to be in with other kids and socialise with them.

So nice to read this,  reminds me from the schooling here in Norway,  i've been struggling with my learning disorder for quite sometime from 1th grade to the 4th grade, until my mom discovered the little thing i learned from the school, i can say that much that of age 8 i still couldnt read. So my mom got me to a different school who were focused on learning disorder. This is were i got to learn writing,reading, and actully enjoyed math from practially use of tv,computers, sound books. Were as from the first school i went to, they nearly forced me to learn the theoretically and all the basic "human" learning. Just a year on the new school got me further then the old school did in 4 years.

School Simply Makes It Easier That's All :) Besides It's A Nice Place To Socialize !!!

This was just about the best article I ever read about homeschooling and letting the kids have fun learning at their own pace! I bet your son will always have fun reading or studying as opposed to the rest of the population nowadays who, after school and after they've learned their job skill, simply hate to open a book or going to a course learning something nice. The still prevalent school system simply dumbs the kids down instead of encouraging their learning and letting them have fun with it! Thank you for this great post!

Love this!

Well done writing about it.. I am currently again at logger heads trying to decide if it's better to school my girls at home, but I stay so concerned about their social side of things..

I also study japanese bro...Its really hard( specially the kanji)...

Your  son is such a smart kid and you a great  dad.  Nicely written post, kids are smart and do not need school to learn. However, school is good for them to meet their peers and play together. Thank you for sharing

Your ideas are very interesting! I appreciate it!

Good post. I agree that reading progresses naturally from a child's  desire to know. I spent my early childhood surrounded by books and could read before I started school without anyone actively teaching me.

This is another great Unschooling post, and one I can relate to well. My youngest learned to read from watching Pokemon with the subtitles on. We weren't even trying to teach her at all. 

I had been very "teacherly" with our eldest and he learned to read early. Luckily I didn't destroy his desire to read like many parents who push early reading do. But with Lily we stepped back. She wasn't as 'into' books as her brother had been even as a baby, so I was pleasantly surprised when she simply picked it up on her own.

This isn't to say there aren't times she needs to ask a word or mispronounces something, but she doesn't mind asking for that help because there has never been any pressure or judgment involved in her learning.

Check out Sugata Mitra he is scientifically confirming most of what you say. Check for Self Organised Learning Environments  SOLE

very interesting post... as a German living in Vietnam, my daughter  (she just turned 2) is also growing up with 3 languages at the same time. German, Vietnamese and English. I can definitely tell that it is all about the effort you put in in a playful kind of way. She is going to an international Kindergarten now where they only speak and teach in English.

I do you think about international schools compared to local schools (as a foreigner living in Japan)?

Also, I think homeschooling sounds interesting but what if you are not in a situation that allows homeschooling (for example both parents are working)?

I totally agree!  
As someone who has taught in schools in three continents, and ages 4-74, I have to say that the educational systems are designed for the industrial revolution- to manufacture complacent, authority-respecting, unquestioning worker bees for the factory system.  The problem is that this model still exists!  Our world is incredibly different in the information age that is technocratic and moving at an exponential speed;  we need critical thinkers, innovators, dreamers, young people to question status quo, and create something new.  I would see my students as the geniuses who I was to facilitate in their curiosity, rather than an authority figure.  I co-designed how we would approach the designated curriculum with my students, and for that I was in the principal's office more times in my first year of teaching than my entire 12 years as a student combined.  Children are absolutely incredible and should not be looked down upon but collaborated with and inspired for their creativity.  I also used to live in Japan and witnessed how my friend's children soaked up not only Japanese and English, but spoke another 4 languages at the dinner table because both the husband and wife had parents that worked internationally.  The educational system is limiting and needs to be discarded for something new to take its place.  I left teaching because I was tired of fighting with the principals at my schools for my innovations.... In my humble opinion, "unschooling" all the bs programming we were taught in schools is one way to becoming a free individual.  Kudos for your article!!!

Hey ! Thank you for this most, it's always a pleasure for me to read parents Who enjoy looking at the development of their kids ! Especially in Unschooling, everyday can bring new learnings.. Do you Know this documentary Being And becoming by Clara Bellar ? In this video we See children in Unschooling and They all explain That When the willingness to read came they have learn So fast ! 
In Franxe, more And more children have big difficulties with reading, And thenet They go to See professionnals and spend even more time struggeling with books. And at the end They don't like to read...