₿HS035: Prepare the Child for the Path, Not the Path for the Child

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Ever feel overwhelmed about homeschooling?  You’ll find inspiration in Leigh Ann and Jason’s story.  They are homeschooling six kids!!!  They cover how it feels to get started, using analogies like super-bananas, and general principles, like teaching kids to govern themselves.  Also, since Jason is the ambassador concierge at Satlantis, we preview this Nostr/Bitcoin project at the end of the program.  

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:

• Leigh Ann and Jason’s background
• Jason is the one who suggested homeschooling to Leigh Ann
• Doesn’t hurt to try homeschooling
• It is so nice spending time with your children
• They don’t separate parenting from homeschooling
• Their grandfather would quiz the kids to test the effectiveness of homeschooling
• Turning the tables, when your kids know more about subjects than you
• Jason’s personal education experiences 
• Compliments from others about how well behaved their kids are, testament to homeschooling kids socializing with people of all ages
• Managing time, allowing for flow, following the unschooling approach
• Learning is best done through experience, it is not like uploading Kungfu in the Matrix
• Low time preference mentality applied to homeschooling includes investing learning skills, e.g., reading, early
• “Living books”, aka Charlotte Mason method, learning history through history
• The power of choice, e.g., letting kids select subjects they want to learn deeply
• One of their favorites is “Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children's History of Art” by Michael Bird
• Self-custody of parenting means kids can explore topics outside of the limited state-dictated curriculum
• Ultimate goal is to prepare kids for the adult world
• All of their kids are in Bitcoin
• Power of analogy … Using the story of “The Super Banana” to explain Bitcoin to a 10 year old
• Teach correct principles and let people govern themselves, let them verify for themselves and live them
• Kids are worth more than Super Bananas (Bitcoin)
• Jason’s journey from outside-in (Bitcoin can save the world) to inside-out (the personal revolution)
• God’s hand guiding us along the way
• Homeschooling is what you make it
• It takes a lot of time investment to find good homeschooling resources
• Leigh Ann’s recommendations: “The Good and the Beautiful”, “Starfall”, and “I See Sam”
• Homeschooling allows parent-teachers to adjust programs 1-on-1 to adapt and fit individual learning styles of each child, contrast with the one-size-fits-all-approach public-school teachers have to use to teach classes of 20+ students
• Strengths, weaknesses and interests … the key is to listen to your kids, do not buy into institutional standards e.g., Common Core or No Child Left Behind (Jason calls the latter socialized education)
• Don’t replicate the system you pulled your kids out of, i.e., public schools, it will stress you out
• Kids naturally want to learn, laziness is a myth

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:

• Jason’s twitter: @geekigai
• Jason’s Nostr: [email protected] or npub1693220pmp0a4c04a0p7hkz874vsxkyfrvtk2yk4zjyj3e4c0ugjs3r4j0c21
• Jason’s book “21 Questions: A Beginners Guide to Bitcoin”, https://a.co/d/0mcMtUC
• Satlantis, https://www.satlantis.io/place
• Bitcoin Chattanooga,