Has homeschooling made anyone else realise they’re incredibly thick?

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And I’m not even talking secondary school homeschooling... I’m trying to teach a year 2 child!
I’m not highly educated but bloody hell, I thought I would be able to at least get on board with primary work.

Can anyone recommend some adult courses?! ...(only half joking)

I was born in 1976. I was never taught verbs, nouns, synonyms, antonyms etc. Dh knew what a verb and noun was, but he was privately educated. The school I attended was shit. Unless you parents were governors or on the PTA the teachers weren’t interested in teaching or helping you. Weird I know, but that’s what I noticed years later looking back. It was also very much, ‘here’s the book, read it, answer the questions’. No real teaching methods.

I always knew I was thick but this is another level.. DD in year 1 is fine, but I can't even help year 4 DS with his maths or English. Feel a bit useless and he is slowly learning how stupid his mum is! I keep using the line "well, the teacher needs to know what you understand, not me!" and I'm only 28!

Khan academy is known for brilliant maths teaching, but their grammar course is excellent too.

I'll admit I'm not used to the methods DD is using in maths, but they do make more sense (in some ways) to help kids grasp the concept of what number is I think.
Agree with the grammar though, I wasn't taught it at school to the extent they are now and I have to keep looking it up myself. I still don't get fronted adverbials or exactly what constitutes a noun phrase. Maybe Khan will help with a decent definition rather than "it looks like this"

A nation of parents educated in lock down.

I too also got a good grasp of the possessive apostrophe, and your, you're.

I too relied on Carol voderman for the basics.

Short bursts are key, I made amazing head way with short sharp bursts rather than long drawn out of sessions concentrating on too much.

I've quite enjoyed learning new things/remembering how to do old things. Although it doesn't help the "because you might need it when you leave school" argument as to why we have to learn things when I then admit I've forgotten how to do long division

I learned about binary and denery (sp?) numbers in lockdown 1.0

Apparently all this deep grammar is from Gove. I have no idea what the grammar provision was pre Gove but many teachers balked in shock when they saw it.

Must be bloody hard work for teachers to keep up with all the training.
I imagine a lot of my old school teachers are still in the profession, they’ve obviously had to change their way of teaching completely compared to when I was taught.

Not home schooling but DD1 is still home from Uni and 3 times she’s asked me what X word means and I’ve drawn a blank.

"Apparently all this deep grammar is from Gove."

Yep - my mum's a primary teacher (nearly retired) - she loathes Gove with a passion for destroying many primary kids love of English with the new SPAG curriculum.

You're not alone! I've got a 1st in English and I've never even heard of those fronted doodahs. So it was idiot Gove who put them on the curriculum? Way to kill off kids' burgeoning love of reading.

Michael Rosen particularly hated fronted adverbials.

michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/health-alert-how-fronted-adverbial.html

I learnt more about grammar doing a foreign language in secondary that I learnt in English.
My teenager is gifted at maths and her top set group are whipping through the GCSE curriculum at a rate of knots. I've got an A level in maths and she's already stopped asking me for help