There are choices that parents make all the time. They range from enlisting your kid in a team sport that’s based on compliance, instead of encouraging them to engage in an individual sport that’s based on establishing standards and then surpassing them.
Or perhaps it’s about setting a standard about what gets talked about at the dinner table. What tools are in your kids’ hands? Yes, you can afford that eighty-dollar tablet from amazon. Did it end up in your kids’ hands from the time they were two, eating chicken fingers in a restaurant and watching videos ’cause it’s more convenient?
How often are the kids in your family challenging the status quo of ideas and having intelligent conversations with you about what they think and why the think it?
How do we deal with failure?
How do we deal with challenges?
How old should a kid be before she publishes her first poem online?
Homeschooling kids in the afternoon, homeschooling kids at the weekend, doesn’t mean helping them get better at the test …
… we need to be significantly more overt in the culture we seek to create at home, and I don’t think we have to pull our kids out of school to do it. I think we have the chance to recognise they’re in school every time we’re with them.
Seth Godin – Akimbo – Connect the Dots