Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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That's a form of stress we want to invite into our lives and learn how to navigate.
But if your kid is experiencing toxic levels of stress, as uh Ned Johnson and Bill Sticksred describe it in the self-driven child, uh, when they are completely overwhelmed by uh the demands of school, and it could come from the the teachers, it could come from their peers, if they are are not able to cope on a day-to-day basis, if the boredom is overwhelming, if they are really seldom engaged.
Then it's a huge, huge risk to consider continuing to do that year after year.
That is putting your kid into the meat grinder and and every time they stick their head up for air, you're pushing it back down.
That's what it means to keep sending your kid to school i in a conventional school environment that's not working for them.
And so, yes, there are risks to leaving the the standard path, and there are also risks to staying on the standard path.
And so this is why parents are the only people who are highly qualified to make this assessment.
They know their kids better than anyone else, hopefully.
And and they can determine whether those levels of engagement, boredom, and stress are are manageable or even healthy, or if they're not.
Hundred percent agreed.
Sure.
I don't actually dwell on screen time per se very much in the book.
Um, I do spend a lot of time discussing gaming.
Yeah, sorry, that's activities.
Sure.
I mean they're they're often uh one and the same.
And I discuss video games and computer games specifically.
I loved video games and computer games and arcade games and role playing games.
I I was a huge gamer.
growing up.
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