TPP 021: 12-year-old Asher Talks About Life as a Homeschooled Kid
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What motivated Debbie and Asher to start homeschooling?
There's a lot of flexibility, but we still get the things we need to get done done.
There is a lot of flexibility. And that's really important for you. Yeah. Which is kinda interesting 'cause a lot of differently wired kids need a lot of structure. And you do. You are someone who n needs a schedule and structure. But within that
I can have loads of flexibility. Yeah. I can be like, Okay, so I have to do this this many times per week or else but I can do it whenever I want to as long as I do it.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today's episode features another conversation with my just turned 12-year-old son, Asher. I've been homeschooling Asher for the past three years and many people have questions about how we do it, what it looks like, and most importantly, what Asher actually thinks about it. So today we're going to take you behind the scenes and talk about all things homeschooling. And as a side note, this episode focuses on Asher's experiences, but of course, as the homeschooling parent, I have my own challenges, strategies, and point of view.
In the next few months, I'll do a follow-up episode that focuses on what I do to make homeschooling work for our family. As always, thank you for listening. To learn more about this podcast and Tilt the Revolution for Parents Raising Differently Wired Kids, visit www.tiltparenting dot com. Hey Asher. Hello mom and various listeners. So today, as you know, we were going to be talking about homeschooling.
Yay.
So I thought we could just have a conversation about what our homeschooling looks like and what you think about it, what your experience has been. Cause a lot of people are curious. A lot of people who don't homeschool and they're curious to know how we do it. And I think it would be interesting to find out what it's like from your point of view. Just a little context. Asher spent his first three years of elementary school going to traditional schools, two private and one public. None of them really worked out super well, so when we made the decision to move from Seattle to Amsterdam, it seemed like a great opportunity to make a radical change and try a totally different approach to education by having me homeschool Asher.
I was very much a reluctant homeschooling parent, but I'll tell that story in another episode. For today, just know that we spilled the beans to Asher about the move and homeschooling in one fateful conversation, and while he was furious about the move, the homeschooling part sounded okay to him. One of the first questions I wanted to ask you, I don't know if you remember this, but if you could go back to when we first talked about or first told you that we were going to be home schooling, it was right at the end of second grade. And I know that it was part of a bigger decision to move to Amsterdam, but what was your kind of initial reaction or thinking about the idea of home schooling. Do you remember?
Well, it sounded cool. But I was kinda disappointed I wasn't going to be able to have any friends at regular school. But I like the idea of home school.
What did you think home schooling was going to be like? I didn't know. I'd never tried it before. So you were concerned about not having friends, but something about the idea of home schooling sounded good to you? Yes. Can you tell me why?
Well it's because the regular school system didn't really work for me. I was like here let's try a different school system.
Home school system. It's been a couple of years since you've been in regular school. But what about it wasn't working from you? What do you remember?
Mm. Well mostly I remember that it was just kind of annoying. Half the time I w I always wasn't paying attention. Getting in trouble? And then Sometimes It turned out that I already knew all the stuff, and that's why I was so bored. Like for a whole grade I was just sitting there and it was like uh and I started my own business and and then w whenever it came time to do tests I completely aced them and then I was completely distracted the entire time in class.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What motivated Debbie and Asher to start homeschooling?
0:00–4:39
2
How did Asher feel about the move to Amsterdam and the switch to homeschooling?
4:39–9:33
3
What were the biggest challenges in Asher’s first year of homeschooling?
9:33–14:53
4
How did Asher and Debbie design their flexible yet structured school schedule?
14:53–19:39
5
What does a typical morning meeting and daily routine look like in their homeschool?
19:39–23:28
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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