Alanis Morissette opens up about breastfeeding, being an empath, unschooling her children

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"I love moms so much. If I talk about it too much I'll start crying. I just think moms are so selfless day in and day out -- women are just killing it all the time”

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- Alanis Morissette (@Alanis) April 7, 2020
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Comments

[handsdowntoo]

Unschooling? How long will that last because it sounds like a bad idea longterm?

[georgeslymaniv]

unschooling sounds fine for very young children. Once they need to actually learn stuff like how to read and how to add, how the hell would it work to let the child lead?

[bet_on_me]

TBH I'm homeschooling my 5 year old right now due to schools being shut down, and just in the past few weeks he's more or less taken the lead in his learning. He asks to do his "lessons" and it usually turns into him asking to read certain books on topics that he's interested in, then painting or drawing a picture about it, or we sit on the floor and play Go Fish or just count beads on his abacus. He knows how to count to 100 now because we practice counting to 30 when we make popcorn and he picks up on patterns lol. Last week he read his first full sentence to me. This evening we spent a lot of time researching what farm animals eat. I honestly feel like he's learning more at home without a lesson plan than he did in school

[georgeslymaniv]

My kids are teenagers and I cannot homeschool them at all. Husband and I are both STEM people and our kids are in stuff like European History, French, orchestra. My daughter is struggling the most in lack of direction and structure. My son is okay at self guided study but there's no substitute for in person practice with a teacher in some subjects, especially learning instruments.

[metralha]

I like Uninvited so much. I'm going to block what I just read so the song isn't ruined for me. Sometimes it's hard for me to separate what I think of the artist from their music. And every one of her answers were so ridiculous and dumb.

[fart]

Those names…

[erika92]

she's a hippie

[elderpricely]

people go through the U.S. public education system without learning a single thing so it's stupid to act like that's the obvious or only choice.

I do know parents who are really successful at following their kids' natural curiosity and making it actually educational. the kids are more engaged and excited about learning and get to know the world through experience, ending up with way more practical life skills and ability to solve problems than kids who do memorization for tests in a class of >30.

the problem is how few homeschooling parents actually understand how to do that and/or how many teach dumb religious shit instead.

[mzgrottesca]

I was a very sick child so I did homeschooling for awhile, and also did some unschooling for a couple years too. I don't think it worked out badly for me and the transition back into regular schooling wasn't hard either.

People should keep in mind that the traditional route isn't the best for everyone - frankly, having tried every form of schooling over my life (private, public, home, unschooling), I think they all have their unique drawbacks and benefits. I kinda suck at math but other than that (and I tested positive for dyscalculia so I can't really blame unschooling LOL), I was always an above average student. Like you said, it's really up to the parents to do their job - my mom is very academic so that is probably part of why my experience was so positive.

[elderpricely]

Yeah, I agree. I was also in a combination of private/public/home school over the years and had no problem going back into traditional school (other than being sort of bored at times). I agree they all have pros and cons, and those will vary based on the kid, the parent, and the teacher. Some kids can succeed in all kinds of education styles despite the cons of each while others will be done a big disservice if they're in the wrong kind of environment.

[bet_on_me]

I am the first to admit that I have no idea what I'm doing with homeschooling right now, but my son's only 5 and he is definitely spearheading his own education. Every morning he asks to do his "lessons" and then we just sit at the table and talk. Whatever weird and wacky topic we end up on is what I start Googling and we spend some time researching. Usually it's about the solar system, Canada, the Titanic or farm animals lol. So we're getting science, geography, history and.... farm animals lol. When his classes closed down he could only tell me the sounds that letters make. Last week he put it together that sounds placed beside each other spell a word and he's now reading all his baby brother's books to him lol.