Would your parents have been good at homeschooling?

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My answer is no.

As much as I love my parents, I could have taught myself more than they could me.

Haha never thought about it but no. They would have encouraged me to do it but let me organise myself and would not have got involved. My mother would possibly have done some reading with me if I was primary age. They were very hands off parents.

This is actually an interesting perspective and makes me feel less rubbish about struggling with my workload and homeschooling.

My mum would have been great but probably very busy with work too. My Dad would probably start at a weird angle that was too hard and lose patience if I didn’t understand.

No. Both only semi-literate, and had been taken out of school at 12 or 13 to work.

Mum would of given it her best shot but I'm not sure we would have learnt much. We would have argued, a lot! As for dad, he's very old school. Homeschooling would be considered a 'woman's job' as he was out at work all day. He may of read with / to us at night but nothing much else.

Both teachers so yes

Dad worked away / outside the home long hours (electrician). Mum would have spent the whole time repeating "well, the teacher wouldn't have set work they didn't think you could do" and would keep sending me to my room.

She would also have stuck religiously to the 9-3 hours, failing to realise that getting one child through the work would take way less time than getting a classroom full through it.

No. I remember learning how to do subtraction with borrowing (now called exchanging) and not quite getting it. I must've been 7 or so? My mum tried to show me how to do equal additions and seemed to pluck numbers out of nowhere and completely confused me!

No, I was “homeschooled” for a year, I basically watched Fame, read books and looked after my siblings. I now have two professional qualifications and a Masters, so long term it was fine.

Makes me much less anxious about my kids being home just now.

My dad no, absolutely no patience with me apart from wood work maybe.

My mum - she taught me algrebra when my teacher didn't manage, she worked with me on vocabulary for language, helped in primary school with spelling, practicing maths, general working when we had tests.

She also ensured I had plenty of time to go to the library to get books.

Yes. I was home schooled. They did fine.

No. Mum Wouldn’t even look at homework to help. I think she was mentally scarred by the 11+ and spent her life being told she was thick so was very paranoid about it and wouldnt even try to help.

Dad would have been ok. But he worked until late so any help he did offer was after 9pm and generally met with tired grumpy annoyed me not being able to “get” it.

I did think about this first time, my help is limited. School now seems a million miles from my school. However we do have the internet to find stuff, watch YouTube videos and generally support that way. Unless you were one of the fortunate few with the collection of encyclopaedia Brittanica on your book shelf the library would be the only way to look things up.

No way.
Apart from a bit of long division help, my parents never helped us with any homework and we never expected any help.

my dad would have been at work, my mum was an alcoholic. School was my saviour. I feel sorry for the children who find themselves in a similar position. It must be hell on earth for them at the moment.

I've been thinking about this a lot and am so glad I wasn't in this situation during my schooldays - or that I'm not a child now. My parents were not academic at all, whereas I loved school and learning. I would get moaned at for doing too much homework rather than helping around the house. I was also really interest in, and good at, English (reading, creative writing etc) and languages along with geography and history but in my dad's eyes, the only type of schoolwork that counted (no pun intended) was maths or, rather, mental arithmetic. He would be furious at the amount of time I spent reading or learning useless subjects and would give me maths test every evening which would inevitably turn into screaming matches between us when I couldn't do it. So I can't imagine how awful a home schooling situation would be.

My parents were, and still are, completely opposed to technology too. I was not allowed a calculator to help with maths, despite me telling them that they were actually pushing me further behind by not allowing me to learn maths in the way set by the curriculum and they refused to allow any type of computer in the home.

I moved back home for my final year of uni and it was a disaster. My mum actually threw my laptop on the ground to try to break it and kept hiding all my books and notes, threatening to destroy them because I was being so boring and swotty, studying all day. I was trying to write my dissertation and almost had a mental breakdown.

Home schooling would have destroyed my future academic career and I can only hope that the school would have recognised the problem and intervened.

No, my Dad was almost illiterate when I was a child. He is better at reading now but his comprehension is poor. He would not have been able to help me one jot. However because of this I was fairly self sufficient as a child.

No. They didn't ever get involved with my schooling or ever ask me how things were going. Considering the people they are this always surprised me.
I have had to consciously relearn how to parent this part of my children's lives, I cannot lead by the example I had.

My DF maybe....my DM no. Despite going on to become a successful and well liked teacher, she struggled immensely being a SAHM so would have been far to irritable, controlling and frustrated to do much but shout at us.

My mum was a teacher and her mum had been a primary school teacher. Yep. She would have done well because she did. I had tutoring classes with her (not super fun but she was a good teacher)

Yes, they taught me to read before I started school. And continued to teach me because school never even got close to stretching me, particularly at primary.

But then my mum was a SAHM and we also had an au pair and a gardener and a cleaner, so they had nowhere near as many things to get done in a day!

If I didn't work I think I could do it. But 40-50 hours a week of high pressure work takes up most of my brain power.

They'd have been supportive, and encouraging but didn't have the necessary depth of knowledge. Their childhoods were impacted by WW2, and the schooling they received was sporadic. They could both read and write and express themselves clearly but nuances of grammar, anything beyond basic mathematics and areas of the sciences would have been beyond their capabilities.

They'd probably do ok, as good as we are able to do for DS

Mum was a nurse in a care home, she likes reading and art. Dad was more academic and had a fairly high powered job, he's good at Maths and generally good at anything history/geography based

My parents were both teachers. They might have been a bit full on though!

Both my parents were teachers

Mum would have been great. Retired primary teacher very patient and creative.

Dad deputy head of a secondary. He would have been great at teaching me his subject but not anything else. He's very very intelligent but has almost no patience. If you don't get it immediately he is just baffled. And he is very sure that he is right. Both Dsis and I refused to allow him to teach us to drive as it just resulted in stand up rows.
He taught in the era of corporal punishment and he thinks naughty children could benefit from the slipper.
I love the stubborn old bugger but I often wonder how he was ever a teacher. It really doesn't seem a good fit.

Yes.

Apart from anything else, they would have made us do it! No excuses...

Mum was a SAHM who had been a teacher, so also had the skills.

The only thing neither she nor my dad could properly help witth was maths, as they didn't understand 'new maths' as it was called at the time. However, they would attempt to help with that.

Other subjects, in which they both had expertise, if you asked a question, they would do the teacher thing of turning it back to you - 'What do you think? Have a go, then we'll talk about it' - which was really annoying as a teenager (Just tell me the French for cabbage!) but worked in making us think for ourselves.

No. They would have been a lot of pressure and much disappointment when I failed to reach their lofty standards of all A grades.