Mine stopped around 4:21.

+JMJ+

One of the great challenges of home-schooling is that of walking the line between complete intellectual anarchy and slavish imitation of the public-school "teach to the test" model, both of which are erroneous and harmful to a child's development.

We carefully screen what our children read, watch and listen to, but it's not that hard, especially since we:

a) don't have cable or network TV, only subscription services like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Instant Video (which we as parents are absolutely in control of every time they are put on).

b) only go to the library together (none of our children are old enough yet to drive, and our oldest is not old enough to walk or bike to our local library alone IF we were even to allow such a thing, which we would not.

c) don't listen to commercial radio except for the odd classical station. Even then, most of the time, we simply use our Internet connection to stream an ad-free channel over our TV or PC.

Our children are being taught math, composition, some history from books which is supplemented heavily by Dad's own studies in history which often clearly show how wrong the standardized curricula are, even the "Christian" ones (ex: "Jamestown was the first European settlement in the New World. The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts.")
and elementary science, which is largely composed of food-science and gardening. Again, these subjects, when not being taught out of a good book, are being taught by Mom and Dad, bringing the truths of Scripture and the teachings of the Church to bear on every aspect of what they are learning.

We are intentionally NOT schooling our children towards a secular college education. We are intentionally NOT assuming that such things are any more necessary in 2013 than they were in 1943, when my grandparents were raising young children. None of my grandparents went to college; three of the four of them never finished high school. Both sets of grandparents had traditional home lives, wherein my grandmothers stayed at home and raised their children until they were in school full-time, and even then only worked outside the home for brief periods each week so that they were never not home when their children were.

All that to say that my grandmothers were practically very intelligent women who could carry on conversations, keep their homes, instruct their children in moral and ethical (and in my maternal grandparents' case, Catholic) truths, and present to the world feminine, modest, chaste, respectable and altogether productive examples of how society should be formed.

That is the goal we have as parents as we educate our children. I can say for certain that my mother and father received excellent educations in their respective institutions (my mother went to Catholic elementary school and middle school and then public high school since the closest Catholic high school at the time was too far away and there was no extensive busing system in the early 1960s). Things are SO radically different today that my wife and I felt we had no choice but to home-school; we decided that a full DECADE before we even had our first child!

The way to battle sloth in education of your children is the same method for battling sloth in any other area of life: remember that NOT to serve Our Lord and the Faith is to serve the Devil. St. Pope Pius X called secular schools "strongholds of the powers of darkness", which they were and are.

Remember that, and you'll not only home-school with zeal, you'll direct their education not just to things useful in practical life, but to things truly Heavenly.

St. Benedict's motto, "Ora et labora", could not be more applicable to home-schooling.

Doctors of the Church, pray for us.

St. Ann Seton, pray for us.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

I support school choice to destroy the cultural terrorism of public schools but I must say how public school has enriched me in a way; not by knowledge no, but by giving me the hard road in life. Public school really enriched me about the doctrines and people I would later abhor and fight against. Who knows where I would be right now had the whole essence of cultural Marxism not been thrust head-long into my face, forcing me to be either with it or against it (luckily I chose the latter). Many homeschoolers on the other hand "know" a lot of books and knowledge, but do not have any real knowledge of the real world or how life is once you get out there.

Traditional Guy?  Did I get it wrong or did you not post on here last week suggesting you make only about $20k per year.

I don't think homeschoolers know less about the world, just about some aspects of it.  But they know more about some aspects too. My niece is 22 was homeschooled and makes over 100k a year from her blog and YouTube channel.  She is one of the top young YouTubers in the UK.

And she pretty much did it all herself from self learning how to run and grow a channel.  My brother is an IT guy but he did not really help her in anyway.

I support school choice to destroy the cultural terrorism of public schools but I must say how public school has enriched me in a way; not by knowledge no, but by giving me the hard road in life. Public school really enriched me about the doctrines and people I would later abhor and fight against. Who knows where I would be right now had the whole essence of cultural Marxism not been thrust head-long into my face, forcing me to be either with it or against it (luckily I chose the latter). Many homeschoolers on the other hand "know" a lot of books and knowledge, but do not have any real knowledge of the real world or how life is once you get out there.

My general impression of public schools is that the are prisons full of animals and torturers of varying capability.

It's a side of life not worth knowing unless forced to by necessity. One can get good out of any situation, but one doesn't seek out such experiences as prison or torture, they are the sort of thing one undergoes only of necessity. It's good you managed as well as you did.

'Obviously the need of this Christian instruction is accentuated by the decline of our times and morals. It is even more demanded by the existence of those public schools, lacking all religion, where everything holy is ridiculed and scorned. There both teachers' lips and students' ears are inclined to godlessness. We are referring to those schools which are unjustly called neutral or lay. In reality, they are nothing more than the stronghold of the powers of darkness.'

Pope St. Pius X

Traditional Guy?  Did I get it wrong or did you not post on here last week suggesting you make only about $20k per year.

I don't think homeschoolers know less about the world, just about some aspects of it.  But they know more about some aspects too. My niece is 22 was homeschooled and makes over 100k a year from her blog and YouTube channel.  She is one of the top young YouTubers in the UK.

And she pretty much did it all herself from self learning how to run and grow a channel.  My brother is an IT guy but he did not really help her in anyway.

We can really give an applause to the rich, like yourself, which refuse working-class Catholics a salary where they have enough to send their children to Catholic schools.

My general impression of public schools is that the are prisons full of animals and torturers of varying capability.

More like brainwashed children being fed lies by members of the Left.

It's a side of life not worth knowing unless forced to by necessity. One can get good out of any situation, but one doesn't seek out such experiences as prison or torture, they are the sort of thing one undergoes only of necessity. It's good you managed as well as you did.

Well let me say this: as I said before I support school choice and yes there is the Bible, Ten Commandments, prayer, etc. cast out, along with the teaching of sɛҳuąƖ education, etc. but the topic was about the spirutual sloth of homeschoolers and so I gave my opinion on having gone through public school: they are slothful because they do not have their Faith challenged.