Feral Families....anyone watching?

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DH is sat and muttering at the screen

Me...I am “live and let live” in attitude.

Would like them to revisit these kids as adults and see if they thought their upbringing was good.

I'm sorry but children need an education, they need to learn social skills which will allow them to integrate into society. I'm all for giving your children the freedom to make certain choices but also think that children need boundaries to feel safe and secure. I take my hat of the families that home school but these families in this programme are not learning them the basic skills. Being happy will only get you so far in life.

I think that Mum is finding it hard to let them make the decision.

I do hope this isn’t going to turn into an anti home schooling programme. It seems to be focusing very much on the lack of schooling .

My son would have been home schooled had a fabulous special school not come up for him. This current Mum seems to have pulled her daughter away from school because of issues within school and because she was struggling with being in school.

Children do start school far too early here.

There’s a difference between home schooling and the “no rules” parenting approach. I don’t like that both are being lumped together.

Who taught mum to cut hair

Does that child have her nose pierced?
Have any of the Yorkshire kids ever been to school at all before this?

Why are these adults so archetype. Dreads and that.
How old is the girl with the nose stud???

It’s ironic that while the parents talk about freedoms the children are actually in a very controlling environment.

I hope it doesn't turn into a home education bashing too.

It was something I really considered and is still something I think about wistfully every now and then but I don't think I have the skills or patience to do it properly.

It is not home schooling though

Oh god, I hope they get on OK at school and don't get picked on or anything.

The home education aspect is very sketchy in so far as they haven't really given us an idea of how much these kids are learning at home or how their reading/writing/numeracy etc is.

I'm open minded about it still, but agree I could never live like that as a parent!

I knew a few children of proper hippies growing up-similar philosophy.
They're are all fucking loaded now. They do things like make trainer art for Japanese collectors, direct tv commercials and own artisanal micro breweries. I'm sure the kids will be fiiiine

And what sort of creative thinking job would you get without being able to read and write

I do feel sad for Archie. I have never met a home ed child who couldn't read/write and I think it is an essential skill.

There is a significant difference between home educating and basically 'can't be arsed'....

So they want the kids to do what they want.

2 kids want to go to school. And there they are, surreptitiously trying to persuade them otherwise. Oooh, look at you in your uniform you’re going to be marching around, yes sir etc.

There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of cash. We have three children, a small car both work full time, earn above average wage and could nit afford to have one parent at home.

Nice to see Archie learning to read.

My son struggled with that and with the benefit of hindsight I wish I had home schooled for a few years until his brain was mature enough to cope with learning to read. He learned some very negative connotations where reading is concerned sadly.

However he can read and write which I am relieved about..the curriculum is open to him.

I don't believe though that Archie at 13 will see this tutor for English and within a year be reading and writing where he should be for his age. He's struggling to read even the most basic words how will he be able to read like a 13 year old in a year?

Noisy and fun and creative parenting can exist alongside formal education, boundaries and rules

Why can’t Archie read? Does he have sn if some kind?

This Mum is very anti School, that’s not letting them chose is it?

Good point about the money...though it seems hairdresser/chef combo both work flexibly around each other. I'm less clear how mother of Archie is going to take them all off travelling around the UK and Europe for an extended period of time, I missed the start of the programme, do we know anything about her setup?

That mum is awful... Preaching that her kids can make their own choices and effectively trying to subtlety isolate them because they dared to step outside of the family norm... What a hypocrite

Archie mum is just being selfish

What if the dc wants to go a good uni and have a professional career. I think it is a bit unbalanced.

That child trying to chop the onion 😱