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.

Makes me laugh just the thought of it. Both uni graduates (and PhD) but were so clueless about my school work.

No. My dad often tried to teach me maths and he'd shout and I'd end up crying every time. I wonder how many kids have that now :(
My mum perhaps but I doubt she'd enjoy it and we'd both end up very stressed.

Mum would have been brilliant, she was a primary school teacher before becoming a SAHM. It would not have occurred to my father that it was anything to do with him.

No, my parents both worked and during school holidays we were just allowed to do what we wanted, usually spending all day out playing with friends without them knowing where we were or what we were doing. I can’t remember my mum or dad ever sitting down and doing homework with us, I think mum read to us when we were tiny but that was it. I always loved going to my cousins house after school as her dad would help with homework and read to us. I always thought we had a great childhood but that was mainly because we spent most of it playing in the woods and getting up to things without my parents knowing or caring,

Nope, barely an O level between them and they couldn't have cared any less about my education. I am clever and could have done so much better with some support (or even a shit given)

This has made me doubly anxious that my DC do well and keep up with their learning. It's making this whole thing a very stressful time for me.

I think mine would, perhaps especially my DF, who apparently remembered everything he’d ever learnt - including all his Latin!

Mind you that was in an era when children generally had to do as they were told, no arguments - TBH we never even dreamed of answering back or refusing to do anything. And my DPs weren’t even particularly strict at all.

No. My Mum wouldn't have a clue, my Dad wouldn't think it was his responsibility anyway. They would have prioritised their needs over mine and left me to get on with it. However, both would have been angry and disappointed with me if I didn't have a school report filled with A's and glowing comments.

Luckily I was self sufficient and motivated to study independently. I do remember feeling proud of myself if I managed to get a C or B- in subjects I found difficult. However, my parents would still berate me for not getting A's - yet do absolutely sweet FA to help.

My mum would have made sure we all did the work and would have been great on English. Ive discussed this with my own (grown up) children and they agree that they wouldn’t have dared not do the work! We would have had a good time watching movies and playing board games but then there would haven’t been any tech to distract.

No, I don't think so. My parents took very little interest in my education, and I don't remember them even checking I had done my homework. I don't think they'd have the patience for homeschooling either!

No. And I had a chaotic and quite miserable home life, I don't think I would have managed any home learning unless I was allowed into the school as a vulnerable child.

No! My my dm struggled to spell in English as she wasn’t British and my dad wouldn’t have had the patience, plus there were 5 of us!

I expect so. My mum was a SAHM but later got a degree and became a teacher. She had the time and the aptitude. My father was also more than capable of helping with the really heavy maths and science stuff. He coached his grandson through his A levels and parts of his medical degree.

Yes, and they did. Both my parents had very little education themselves because they were young children during WW2. On the whole they both had to educate themselves. Because of that, I think they viewed educating your own children as part and parcel of being a parent.

I went to school in the 70's and my SAHM was the one who taught me to read and learn times times tables. We had lots of educational day drips to museums and stately homes. Even jigsaws were educational - I had a huge Jigmap of the world which I must have done a thousand times. Christmas presents were always Atlas's, Encyclopedias or dictionaries. And I had scrapbooks in every subject known to man. Sunday school and Brownies were also very educational. I remember lots of roll play games with my dolls - school was my favourite one. I'd sit for hours pretending to be teacher with my blackboard and desk.

They were very clever people, my mum always had her head in a book and taught and me to read before I started school and despite not having a single O'Level to his name my dad reached the top of a career ladder that today would require 2 degrees.

Sad for them both because they were far more intelligent than I ever was. But, still they were able to lead successful and fulfilling lives. As I am sure the kids of today will.

My mother would have been fine with the academic stuff but an utter stress monster if she hadn't been able to turf us out of the house.

My father would have been utterly useless with academic stuff but would have taught more practical stuff instead...but would also have been a stress monster without the "get out and play" option available so on balance no. My parents would have jettisoned at home learning and encouraged us to build a den in the garden (under the guise of getting us out of the house!)

Both my parents freely admit there wouldn't have been 6 of us if we hadn't lived in a safe remote village where we could play outside dawn til dusk. We were definitely free range kids!

I was homeschooled, so yes. On the other hand, I'm not sure they'd have coped as well with a sudden closure of schools, coupled with the inability to take us anywhere. That's rather different to planned homeschooling.

No because they enjoyed drinking so unless the lesson was on club 18-30 how to do it on cheap plonk I doubt it

No. I don't think they would have even attempted to do it.

I do wonder what my dc will think of my efforts though!

Mum wouldn't. My Dad would have but not be able to deal with my tears over anything mathematical! He always had to leave the room!

Yes - my mum has an arts degree and my dad a science one, and my dad had a maths-type job so they would have been able to cover a balanced range of subjects. The house was crammed with books, too.

Even without homeschooling I probably derived 50% of my education outside school. The teachers at my crappy comp tried their best but far too much time was wasted on idiots dicking about disrupting lessons for the sake of it.

My DM would, she was great at helping us to understand homework we found difficult.
But she's a nurse so would have been out of the home working full time.
DD would have been a disaster, like pp he understands things very quickly himself and is poor at breaking them down and explaining so would have become very frustrated with us very quickly.

Not at all. My parents are functionally literate and numerate and probably fairly bright, but both left school at 15 and have no qualifications whatsoever to their name. (Both walked into well paid City jobs though, as this was the ’60s!)

I was a very sensitive, highly academic child and my learning would have outpaced my parents’ abilities by about the time I reached secondary school (super-selective grammar). Having taught Upper KS2 myself fairly recently, there is no way they would have coped with today’s Year 5/6 curriculum. And they weren’t particularly patient either.

Very grateful not to have experienced what parents and school-aged kids are dealing with at the moment, as I have no doubt that it would have impacted my academic achievement. (I’m sure my more middle class peers would have been just fine though!)

My mother was a shit mother so can't imagine she'd have been any good at anything extra!

No. She never let me do my own homework/projects as she wanted me to get good scores - she did it all. So inevitably I left school with no/poor qualifications - ta mum