Yo parents: how to mess up your kids with "good parenting"

[Ed Anger]

The funniest (or saddest, depending on your point of view) thing are parents who approach parenting in a "scientific" manner by reading a hoard of various self-help books and then plan their kid's whole childhood down to minutiae, by filling up his or her every waking moment with courses, training activities and all kinds of shit like that.

If you listen to them, it's as if the fact that people have been raising kids more or less successfully for a bunch of the last millennia is pretty much a freak bout of luck.

Dr. Spock is a fraud.

[Ed Anger]

Hint:  Don't get parenting advice from Cracked Magazine.

Whoops. Didn't even read the link. I wouldn't have bothered then.  I got = suckered.

I facepalmed myself.

[dps]

#6 is also a great explanation why home schooling is for morons.

Show me a single well-adjusted individual who was home schooled.

Hint: Mentioning a name of a Languishite is not an acceptable response.

#6 is also a great explanation why home schooling is for morons.

Show me a single well-adjusted individual who was home schooled.

Hint: Mentioning a name of a Languishite is not an acceptable response.

#6 is also a great explanation why home schooling is for morons.

Show me a single well-adjusted individual who was home schooled.

Hint: Mentioning a name of a Languishite is not an acceptable response.

There's nothing wrong per se with home schooling.  The problem with it is that most parents are morons.  But then again, most schoolteachers are morons, so it all balances out.

[derspiess]

Hint:  Don't get parenting advice from Cracked Magazine.

Whoops. Didn't even read the link. I wouldn't have bothered then.  I got = suckered.

I facepalmed myself.

Still, Cracked managed to get more things right than Dr. Spock. 

[Ed Anger]

Feed your kids a steady diet of pop-tarts and violent Bugs Bunny cartoons.

[Mr.Penguin]

Feed your kids a steady diet of pop-tarts and violent Bugs Bunny cartoons.

The Bugs bunny part worked for me (didnt have pop-tarts), also learned a good deal of english through Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry cartoons...   

[Martinus]

There's nothing wrong per se with home schooling.  The problem with it is that most parents are morons.  But then again, most schoolteachers are morons, so it all balances out.

Actually, there is - it's the lack of socialization. Schools provide children with opportunities to interact with other people, both peers and adults, including in conflict situations that cannot be immediately resolved by an ever-present parent.

Even if home schooling parents make sure their kids participate in some activities that involve other children, this does not make up for the lack of school-style socialization, because it is both too short (a couple of hours per day, at most) and usually is done with the parent(s) present, thus not allowing the child to get independent of the parents' protection.

[Admiral Yi]

also learned a good deal of english through Bugs Bunny

Must have done wonders for your pronounciation. 

[derspiess]

Even if home schooling parents make sure their kids participate in some activities that involve other children, this does not make up for the lack of school-style socialization, because it is both too short (a couple of hours per day, at most) and usually is done with the parent(s) present, thus not allowing the child to get independent of the parents' protection.

News flash: schools have teachers, who are sometimes more controlling than parents.  The few kids I know of that are homeschooled show no problems with socialization-- they seem to get enough socialization through sports, boy scouts, playing with their friends in the afternoon, etc.

The schools where I live are pretty good, so I'd have no incentive to homeschool my kid even if it were a viable option for me.  In other situations, I could see myself doing it. 

[ulmont]

#6 is also a great explanation why home schooling is for morons.

Show me a single well-adjusted individual who was home schooled.

Hint: Mentioning a name of a Languishite is not an acceptable response.

Hey now.  I was home schooled for 5 years.

[Ed Anger]

#6 is also a great explanation why home schooling is for morons.

Show me a single well-adjusted individual who was home schooled.

Hint: Mentioning a name of a Languishite is not an acceptable response.

Hey now.  I was home schooled for 5 years.

You are apparently a monster.

[Mr.Penguin]

also learned a good deal of english through Bugs Bunny

Must have done wonders for your pronounciation. 

Coupled with my ridiculous flat danish accent, am I sure its lovely...

[Martinus]

#6 is also a great explanation why home schooling is for morons.

Show me a single well-adjusted individual who was home schooled.

Hint: Mentioning a name of a Languishite is not an acceptable response.

Hey now.  I was home schooled for 5 years.

I rest my case.

[Eddie Teach]

You are apparently a monster.

Worse, he's a Tech fan. 

[ulmont]

You are apparently a monster.

Worse, he's a Tech fan. 

10-1, motherfuckers!