To say that you can take your Instagram homeschooling smugness and

[sparklefarts]

Fuck off??

Well am I unreasonable?!?

People I know in real life who I always thought of as lovely seem to have developed a need to post every single bit of homeschooling on insta with smug happy children, all smiles and love and look at our little wonderful bubble.

I know behind the scenes it's probably not quite as all smiles as they suggest.

Most of it seems to be 'look at me I thought of this fantastic activity for my delightful smiling easy children'
It's bullshit isn't it?

But what compels people to do it??


I'm not even that bitter. We're doing OK with homeschooling. We post the work to the teachers teams page and that's that. I know lots of people are struggling so would never dream of posting how brilliant it is everywhere (it isn't brilliant)


Maybe I just needed that rant.

[AiryFairyMum]

By the sound of it I'm in the minority but I genuinely enjoy it. It could be because mine's little, so I'm not teaching anything advanced, but I get to spend my days squidging round with paint and reading cute stories. I used to have a really stressful career, which I gave up to go into a part time one after maternity leave. My homeschooling days are much more fun and less stress than my old job. I now think I should have been a teacher or a TA as I enjoy it so much, but I know teaching 30 would be much harder!

[LolaSmiles]

If it's people sharing nice things they've done to break up days with the children at home, or activities that have kept the children busy whilst they get on with some work then I really enjoy seeing those posts.

If it nauseating drivel about how their child's teacher is simply blown away by their child's brilliance, complete with photos of their child the parent's work on assorted art projects and school work, or worse posts 'to' the child about how proud mummy and daddy are that child has got full marks on the timestables online quiz, then YANBU at all. It's boastful and awful.

[Squashpocket]

We have to 'post our child's learning' on Tapestry Journal so the teacher can see that we've done the required work and even doing that makes me anxious. I have to read and re-read what I've written and spend half an hour second guessing whether I've put enough/not enough photos and videos up or whether the teacher will think I'm either showing off or negligent. I'm aware that this is more indicative of my mental state than anything, but it's fucking exhausting.

[Whatisthisfuckery]

I think on the whole people only post things that are different, so I would post a really pretty place I’d been, or a massive spider in my bath, or if I’d managed to bake a cake that didn’t look more like a yorkshire pudding. Posting pics of me vacuuming is really not interesting to me, so I wouldn’t imagine other people would be interested either. This is why it’s so easy to see through all the insecure people who use SM to convince themselves and us that their life is perfect. Nah it ain’t mate, because if it was perfect then you would consider the sight of your immaculately behaved DC working diligently at the kitchen table no more exceptional than you vacuuming, and while you might post one picture of the kids because home learning is a novelty, you wouldn’t feel the need to do it every day, ten times a day.

[LolaSmiles]

Whatisthisfuckery
Well said.

Squashpocket
I'm a teacher and just reading that stressed me out.
If it reassures you then I'd not be looking into parent posts like that. All I'd be interested in seeing is if the students have done the work and then making sure I've checked in with them regularly on a pastoral level. If I were in your situation then I'd be saying 'does this show the work?' If so then that's enough.

[BackBoiler]

My youngest (7) has the following, set everyday
Morning activity (10 mins of kids yoga on YouTube etc)
Phonics
Literacy
Handwriting
Maths
Topic (technology/history/geography/etc)
PSHE
Art (drawing with Rob on Youtube)
Some form of PE
Watching her teacher read Harry Potter.

There is no time to set up anything else and to be honest from 9-3 is taken up with all this and helping my 8 and 12 year old do theirs too, never mind posting on social media.