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April 5, 2006
Less Stress Socialization and TV
Ah, my personal pet peeves:
1) Less-Stress over socialization:
You know the questions they ask, but are the people who ask these questions saying that the public school children have the best social skills of all the children in the world? YIKES!!!
These questions stem from the misconception that we learn our social skills in a classroom full of peers run by government institutions. Think about it…do the ps children have time ‘during class’ to socialize? Or is that after school and during after school activities? Since we, as homeschoolers, spend less time in actual class, then we have 4 or 5 more hours in a day for social activities than those in the traditional classroom!
Do you want your child to learn the social graces of their peers or parents? Who’s bright idea was it that 35 13 year olds are the best teachers of socialization for your 13 year old?
“The public school has no time for the individual child; it must deal with children en masse.” - Schoolmaster, in Manhattan in 1923; from A Mother’s Letters to a Schoolmaster ©Alfred A. Knopf, 1923
2) Less-Stress with TV
By limiting or eliminating your tv time, then your home life finds more stress-free hours in the day. Because your child is not subject to ads (which exist solely to tell you that you are not content with what you have) you have less stress shopping, and children are more receptive of others gifts to them.
Here are some excellent quotes about the television:
“Television . . .Is an anti-experience and an anti-knowledge machine because it separates individuals from themselves and from the environment and makes them believe they are living while they are only observing passively what other people decide to make them see.”
- Dr. Silvana Montanaro, MD, Psychiatrist, Montessori Teacher-Trainer
“The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents... Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into adults.”
- Urie Bronfenbrenner, Professor of Human Development, Cornell University
Okay, done with the personal pet peeves that tend to stress me out.
~Betsy
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