Erika Shupe, a homeschooling mother of nine in Mt. Vernon, Washington, shares her journey and tips for new homeschooling parents. She shares her experiences on her blog, Large Families On Purpose, which details her life as a single-income parent. However, her blog has been criticized for its fanaticism and poor grammar and spelling skills.
In an interview with Natasha Trudeau, Erika shares five suggestions for new homeschooling parents:
- Get your heart and mind right about what you’re doing and why.
- Declutter your home to double the amount of space in a home, providing more space for children to play in and learning.
- Sleep in, as most kids enjoy being homeschooled, and this can be achieved through regular schedules and routines.
- Don’t waste your time by not focusing on the school teacher or teaching her own children.
Homeschooling is a challenging decision for many homeschoolers, but it is essential to remember that it is hard to quit. This family’s journey serves as a reminder that homeschooling is a difficult decision, and it is important to find a balance between the desire for a large family and the importance of a regular schedule and routine.
In conclusion, Erika Shupe’s story serves as a valuable lesson for new homeschooling parents, emphasizing the importance of getting your heart and mind right about what you’re doing and why. By following her family’s journey and learning from her experiences, homeschooling can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience for all involved.
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Thank you for your wisdom. I gave up my career for my children and I honestly have never looked back. I have now been a mother for 10 years and while it was a very difficult adjustment period in the beginning, I can honestly say that I love every day with my beautiful children and I would never give it up for any career in the world. Society is so cruel to women who decide to be full time mothers. But in the end, I believe, that we have made the right choice and I am looking forward to seeing the fruits of my labour.
A beautiful speech! I stayed home with all my 5 (now young adult children) when they were little till they started school. It takes creativity, cost cutting, living simply, enjoying nature, lots of outdoors exploring, eating together, supporting and loving one another through life’s ups and downs.🏘️🙏❤️ n i
For the first time in 12 years I feel appreciated as a mother and by the words of a total stranger. Unfortunately, this year I felt strongly the struggle within due to the lack of appreciation in proportion to the strong feeling of responsibility. For the first time I realised that stress coping mechanisms is the luggage I never left home with. Happy to know it is something I can still acquire.
Thank you for your interviews. My toddler started nursery at 2yr8montbs. Seeing your interviews confirmed to me what I had thought all along. I took him out just before his 3rd birthday. I am now planning to home school and look after both my babies till they’re at least 5yrs old. I know I’m very lucky to be able to have this choice. I never thought I’d even think about home schooling but now being a mother, I question why am I giving one of the most important responsibilities to strangers. I will try and do it where I can.
The community cannot supersede the parent. Pediatricians and teachers have to deal with parents as individuals rather than force families into molds with policies and guidelines. In our city the local hospital system is being sued because pediatricians were trained with strict guidelines that they applied to all families and involved Child Protective Services without good reason, resulting in families devastated and torn apart. We must be very careful not to give power to institutions to fix problems created by society.
I did not become a mother until I was 21 then 23 then 26 and seriously I was not ready. I was not mentally mature enough to have taken on this sacred task. Even though I stayed home with my children, volunteered at their schools and in the community, I did a great disservice to my children. They all have struggled with addiction and mental health issues. Two have not had children at are in the mid and late 30s and one struggles with her role as a parent even at the age of 33. I may have been home, but I was not present. Ms Komisar thank you for pointing to the light at the end of the tunnel on this.
To be a parent is an absolute blessing and privilege that should never be taken for granted. So, to be an effective loving caring guiding role model to children is to be taken seriously. I’ve always said mothers are the nurturers of the family,fathers the ones that go to provide whilst the mother begins her nurturing career, and that means that she nurtures the relationship between the child and its father too,regardless of what happens (abuse being the only time the mother separates child from father/vice versa). Our Ancestors said…”it takes a village to raise a child “, but I agree it takes extended family (grandparents etc) to help raise a child/children with a healthy foundation to who they are and who they can become. We are all role models,even to people we don’t realize observe us,so be good role models to all children,they are our next generation.🙏🏼
I agree with most of her points. But as a mom and a teacher I can honestly say that the pressure on kids as far as grades and academic excellence goes has never been lower. And by never I mean in the last 30 years. My grandparents were better educated than me, I’m certainly better educated than my kids. And it’s due to the fact that they we were expected to do well. By both the school and the parents. It all started to come apart in the 90s and in 2023 there’s literally so little actual education at school, I’m scared to think what the new bridges and buildings are going to look like. I’m worried about the future surgeons, lawyers, nurses and yes, teachers. But hey, at least they won’t be stressed about the grades!
One of the best talks in this conference. As a mother and grandmother, I disagree and believe those important year’s go all the way to 5 years of age. The second stage from there is up to 13 years of age. The third stage is up to 21 years of age. Being an active mother to a child is important, but so is being an active father in a child’s life. Being an active grandparent is also just as important in a child’s life. We need to bring back education on how important the family unit including grandparents are to the future of humanity. Just like we should not be putting children into institutional care, we also should not be putting the elderly into institutional care unless there is no alternative. With the technology we have today, some people have the option to work from home. We can also educate our children in the safety of their homes. Remember, it takes a village to raise a child. Let us bring back the nuclear two parent family of the Baby Boomers, and stop the division. Bring back education on relationships and stop the vaccination and medication of children and let them be children and play.
“Every person is a bridge spanning two legacies: the one they inherit and the one they pass on. Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path. Until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares all the children that follow.” – Terry Real, couples & family therapist & bestselling author.
Thank you for spreading this message. Children need to be mothered. I visited daycares when I was contemplating going back to work out of the home. It was so sad seeing babies as young as 3 months old laying in cribs crying with no one to soothe them because the caretaker was bottle feeding another baby. I couldn’t handle it.
i can’t help what feels naturally right – I’m aiming to stay at home by looking for other ways to be financially secure. I also regularly reflect on my own childhood – the positives and negatives – and try to learn where I can. Talks like these provide more guidance – the advice feels so natural and right, I cannot deny it, Thank you for all of the work you do! also I can;’t stop looking at the glasses
Here’s my take on the institution of the foster care system. Every geographic area will vary, but, I fostered for 3 yrs & here is some of what I witnessed: 1. The foster agency had zero oversight once a child is in a foster home. 2) There’s a lack of training for fostering emotionally disturbed kids, 3) Doctors prescribe dangerous, adult medications to young kids, 4) This is a 24 hr a day job, & the “system” has pathetically low stipends for care providers, 5) The agency placed sexually abused kids w/ other kids, & the sex abuse continues, 6) The foster agency withholds & actually hides critical info, like the fact that a child has dangerous behavior due to fetal alcohol syndrome, 7) The “system” Allows the foster child to determine when a placement will end, resulting in one 12 yo being in 24 homes. And 8) There is No psychiatric help for very seriously disturbed kids. Due to the severity of their mental problems, and the complete absence of psychiatric care, (other than drugs), it’s sad to say, that the kids I had may very well be the future inmates of our prison system. And here is why; one child burned a house to the ground after leaving my care, & he was violent w/ other kids. And one 12 yo girl was a pedophile & criminal charges against her were pending, And another 10 yo girl physically attacked an adult male & her acting out included compulsive lying & stealing, All were seriously abused for years, and all had reactive attachment disorder, so it makes sense that they have major problems that are not addressed by the “institutional” foster system.
Excellent, and profound. Needs to be the ethos of society.. if we are going to turn it around. Some of the salient points and concepts I noted: “What we are seeing is a rash of disorders of emotional regulation”; “labeling and medicating” “You have to get your house in order before you bring children on the scene.” Mothering, particularly from 0 – 3, two parent families and time with your children, throughout adolescence as well.. are critical in developing attachment, a sense of security, and happy, confident and resilient children ..and families, and there is no substitution. In the early school years, “redefine success.. as love of learning, robust self esteem and the leaning to individual strengths, rather than on tests and grades alone.” Schools need to be safe spaces, with zero tolerance for bullying. “social media hygiene” – it’s toxic, and must be restricted. Thank you Erica and ARC organizers, so very much.
Brilliant speech from Erica Komisar, I agreed with everything she said here. Thanks for putting the ARC conference speeches on You Tube for more of us to enjoy, much appreciated. Although I never had kids myself, I hate to see how they are suffering now, the way they are being indoctrinated in schools and universities, the way they are being failed by an education which does not teach most of them the ability to think critically. It must be such a difficult time to be a youngster now. My cousin’s 16 year old child has been away from school for months with their OCD and autism spectrum problems, totally unable to concentrate on anything apparently. One wonders whether the child has been bullied at school too and is simply trying to avoid that. My cousin and his ex-wife are doing what they can to get the help the child needs but it takes so long and there are long waiting lists. Hope the ARC conference went well.
A succinct, compassionate and thoughtful appeal from Erica Komisar, borne out of deep research and understanding of both children’s needs and the broader factors at play. Her solutions are balanced and pragmatic, with one eye on all our futures and one eye grounded wholly on what needs to be implemented in the present. I only wish they had come sooner because: “…medicating away children’s distress, which is what we’re doing today. It only causes more illness and more distress.” 🎯 It’s worth checking out the late Ken Robinson’s popular talk on “Do schools kill creativity?” for some great insights on the unpredictability of the future and how that can be met by fostering children’s extraordinary native capacity for innovation.
It is critically important to acknowledge that societies–even in the West–have become increasingly hostile to family formation. For example, how can a family maintain a happy home when most homes are crushingly expensive. This is true whether the family is owning or renting. Exorbitant costs put families unto enormous financial pressure. Things like evictions destroy a sense of security, work against stable communities, etc., etc., etc. Unaffordable housing is just one example of larger, systemic problems that MUST be addressed to have any hope of stronger families and happier children.
Oh my word, on one level it is so good to hear this, as a mum who prioritised raising the kids over work, and money. But we’re still trapped in a society that looks down on stay at home mums, on childcare or caring roles. Trapped in a society that favours wealth and things to create social status, over ‘just a stay at home mum’, i have heard that said too many times. If i sent this to all the women around me i would have no one talking to me. Fact. And yet i have been put down continuously for looking after my kids full time, over holidays abroad, fast cars and things with labels. I have no idea how you get this message actoss enough for people to be reflective enough yo want change. Especially when status comes into play. And it has to be said, i know so many men who want their wifes to be bringing in money over looking after their children. I could go on but best stop 😊, but i really appreciate this conversation, even though its complex and hard for all of us. ❤
I was 31 before I was told that my parents should have taught me how feelings and emotions work. We just never talked about feelings ever, and when my dad died when I was 10 I was told not to cry at his funeral. Well, as a child you do as you are told, and that was that. It just baffles my mind that a parent just never talks about feelings at all, and tell a child that crying is wrong even when your dad has died. Oh, and my nanny tried to kill me when I was 5, so… How can you grow up to know what being an adult is when the one’s responsible assume that you’ll just figure it out on your own… Children are wired to seek advice from the one’s that are older, and primarily parents/caregivers first and foremost. So, it doesn’t take all that much wrongs before a childs mind has been pushed onto the wrong path, and yet so many parents still just don’t give a shit. – It’ll be fine… is a very very poor recipe for taking care of children, and I highly recommend you do a lot better than that. Personally I grew up in a western society, where things seemingly still look fine, except it doesn’t take all that much effort to scratch that surface. Even friends up till this day never talked about feelings really, it just never was a subject. It was just barely scraping the surface, just touch and go with anything related to feelings. It’s pretty sad that it’s so common that most people just don’t take care of feelings at all, and I know now that so many people just want to continue this way.
I didn’t send my oldest to childcare until he turned 2, and only for 2 days a week. My younger is 1.5 and she is not in any childcare yet. We are taking turns working/ spending time with these two very young kids and I’m 6 weeks pregnant now. In our house there is no TV, no iPad, I don’t carry my phone when I’m with my kids, unless I take a article or photos for them. My older one learned to take a photo with my phone two. But that is about the only chance they see a screen. They don’t have any electric or digital sound or light making toys. Another thing is, we don’t give them any snacks that’s in a commercial package. Even if I forgot to pack homemade snacks and have to buy snacks from shops, I would put them in a ziplock bag or container from home. I found parents rely on tools to distract their toddlers. It breaks my heart to see a family with very young toddler(s) sitting in a restaurant having a meal with each of them perusal a screen in front of them including and toddlers. Basically, I don’t want my children to be distracted. I didn’t carry a fetus for nine months and risked my life to give birth to them to distract them with generic kids shows. I don’t want anything come in between us, even sometimes there are tantrums, tears, but I still just want to experience everything with them. People are amazed how could we do it. But I think it’s actually easier. My 2y 9m son is very reasonable and I rarely need to say no to him.
If parents don’t honor their commitments and build good relationships, most children will not do well. Probably school choice with the option of small schools where everyone knows one another would help. Having mothers stay home isn’t enough if the parents don’t know anything about childrearing or running a home.
wow, right over the target imo. Brilliant overview n stir to action, like an arc transitioning from a problematic world to a new beginning, be it ever so imperfect. Many would have a lot of trouble both gettin head around this an beginning to implement, but with a societal change, I believe it will occur, tiny steps but. I think diet n importance is also a great part of this better direction, thanks for the forum n vision that is bein presented.Neil Oliver recently said something along the lines of, “these kids belong to all of us n need our help!
growing up with adhd, i dont think ill ever find it in my heart to forgive mom, or the school for what they put me through, and how still today how hard it is to cope, it still feels like this world wasn’t made for me, and i wish i could have learned how to cope instead of being scolded and fed pills.
11:30 had me until ‘0 bullying tolerance’. Teaching children that they are in a police state with an authority that will hand down judgment about all their interactions will predispose them to being helpless. Children need to regulate bullying for themselves and as a part of reliable first principles of behavior like ‘never start a fight, but always finish it’ ‘stick up for the little guy/girl’ and ‘if you have to fight, fight fair, or people will gang up on you’.
Kids need to run around and engage in riugh and tumble play, ride bikes and play with toys and art materials. Period. If the family has pets thats another good thing for kids to do, helping with taking care of them and playing with them and showing them affection. This is how kids grow up happy and emotionally stable.
I don’t disagree with anything that she says, but there is a fundamental problem with it that occurs whenever a single-issue-motivated person puts forward their ideas – if everything she wanted was implemented, the effects on society would be devastating. If you listen just to the list of things she wants government to do, you need to ask the question… who pays? Before you all flame me, her goals are all noble, and everything she wants to do to protect children seem reasonable and good things, however… we live in a real world with finite resources, finite people, finite time etc.
I’m sorry, but this lady isn’t living in reality. Parents – mothers – don’t prefer to put infants in daycare; they do it because to afford to live you need two incomes. And very few people have a multi generational family around them; families stopped having more than two kids over a generation ago. And they can’t be preaching that we need more births while at the same time insisting that your financial, physical and mental health are all in order before you have kids. Which, according to the right, is in your 20s and 30s. And where are all these professional, loving resources that she’s preaching coming from? Every hospital and family service is underfunded and understaffed. While I don’t think she’s wrong, she’s certainly describing a dream world.
It is not a company’s job to be a parent to the employee. Either work there, or don’t. It isn’t the company’s job to create a life situation that enables the parent to stay home for a year—or three years—with their child. And what if the parent has another child to years later?? Does the speaker’s maternity leave schedule start all over again? I am in my 60s, and worked in corporations while they were trying to sort this through. On a practical level, the work of the woman taking maternity leave would be shoved off onto someone else in the department who was already overloaded. Because of course, that woman was supposed to get her SAME job back when she returned. Does the speaker expect a company to allow a woman to vacate her position for a year, hire a new person to fill in, and then fire that person when the woman decides to return to work? When the woman (let’s say she works in the accounting department) cuts back to part time, what is supposed to happen to the work she is no longer doing? Just expect other people work a couple of hours more each day? I feel like this woman is totally out of touch with reality. Women, if you want to stay home with your kids, make your own plan. It isn’t your company’s job to run your life. Like it or not, a company is about making money. Not to take care of the personal lives of employees.
As a mum and teacher, I agree with everything she says. Mums are so very important. I just have one question, which is something that I think an awful lot of mums might be struggling with at the moment. I bought a house 5 years ago. We’ve been living a year in it now. But, for 4 years, 2 years where covid lockdowns in Melbourne was very extreme, I had to pay rent and interest on a house that wasn’t built yet. During that period, I met my fiancé, and we had 2 girls, 2 and 3 1/2. I have no family in Aus, and it was an extremely stressful experience, both pregnancies were high risk & I had to be hospitalised almost weekly. But my two girls are the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Anyway, I digressed. I have no choice but to work full time, but due to a head injury I suffered at work I am on w/c returning slowly 3 days a week. I try spending as much time possible with my girls and try my utmost best to provide them with opportunities e.g. dance classes and swimming. It’s expensive though. Since it’s my choice for them to attend this, I pay for it. My short-term memory has been affected and I have severe anxiety (PTSD diagnosed). How do I manage, I want to be the best mum I can for them, not a burden, stressing them out, they deserve the best. And I also don’t want to be a burden on friends and be the depressing friend without family they have to support, not fair on them either.
I agree with what Erica says completely but when a parent has serial children (i did) I think it is unfair to employers. Men read the headlines and women the small print.men are the breadwinners znd women the breadmakers. Fathers and mothers are importantbut they have different roles. I implore Erica to carry on giving her great wisdoms and truths.
I feel like this lady came to me with a wish list she would like to see implamented. The fact she is suggesting the government, NGOs and institutions take a top down lead in enforcing these changes on society worries me. All these changes were once naturally occurring “traditional ways of life.” That now need to be “rediscovered” and re implemented into society after having been tossed asided. Dont get me wrong not everyone had these benefits of a 2 parent house hold but out ancestors saw the benefits thousands of years ago. Being able to mass implantment these benefits for more peoples sounds great and will probably go just as well as giving everyone access to school. It was a overall societal improvement but more problems will arise from it. Also look at the institution of marriage and how well that is going especially with the government meddling in it.
I raised my kids following so many rules that are recommended and everyone envied us as great parents and wanted there kids to be like ours. BUT, when my kids turned 18, they decided what they saw on YouTube and Tik Tok was the truth and that they wanted to try it that way because it looked so much more FUN! So ALL my kids moved out and there lives were wrecked for years as they lived the YouTube/Tik Tok lifestyle of fun, fun, fun. After 8 years, the horror story of what my kids lived through got us an invitation on Dr. Phil. Just remember you can raise your kids, but at some point, when they are grownups, if they decide to F*%# up there lives, they are grownups and they will…
She is assuming that there are high quality, moral people taking on the task of “helping” your children. A friend whose daughter was struggling with challenges at school enlisted the help of a school counselor. She found out many months later the female counselor was having a sexual relationship with her daughter. Another friend moved to a new town. Her daughter’s new classroom was discussing gender identity, and all her new classmates decided that she was really a boy. With the help of a school counselor (“Shhhh! Don’t tell your parents) her daughter, who arrived in the new city with pink bows in her hair, took on the identity of a boy for several years. As a teen, she has decided she is gay. The speaker lives in the typical academic ivory tower. Her “pie in the sky” solutions are dependent on Christian morality in all these institutions. That is pretty much gone. Especially in government institutions, but really any institutions at all— and yes, even in the church. It strikes me that the people who most want to jump into a role where they are in charge of your children are the people you should distrust the most. And unfortunately that is everywhere today.
8:08 I wish I could ever be this confident in telling a room full of people such a blatantly generalized statement that it borders on lying. Day nurseries offer an amazing opportunity for children (especially the ones without siblings) from the age of 2 to train their skills with other children of varying age. They are one of the greatest success stories coming out of socialist countries. Mrs. Komisar comes from a background of extreme privilege, being very smart, home-schooled and married to an equally successful doctor and entrepreneur. She had her first kid well into her 30s and enough money in the bank for a full time nanny at that point. She is in no position to tell parents around the world what they have to do. Telling poor parents that child day care institutions are to be avoided is like telling poor workers on a bus that they are too lazy to own a car.
Is family at all included in your evaluation? You can build an schematic about children. You have many good points, but it seems you are forgetting family as a marriage between one man and one woman and a share responsibility in the upbringing. Many good points but little about home and shared responsibilities. Your points seem to be completely dislocated from what participating in society means. Stop it! The worst intervention, invasion, interference in the family is from government. Governments are not to dictate, what you apparently imply, but to simply Porte t the freedom of the individual, and life for the individual from conception to natural death.
She says Governments, I say fathers. She almost had me, as I understand all of the initial arguments. The core issue that is at hand is “why should a mother have to take a year away from a work agreement?” The Father should be taking care of the work so as to allow for that time and more. I do not advocate male oppression rather I say we should allow for a natural Male authority that flows into a natural Male care and stability. Men want to provide (as they can not produce heirs, and know that to have this, they need women) why would you turn that down and demand autonomy unless pride is your base, and independence rules your thoughts. As to the raising of children which would then make no sense, why you would want to add new members to your selfish world.
Can you please discuss parenting children with attachment disorders after they are permanently placed? Simply being in a loving home with mentally well parents who are present and limit social media IS NOT ENOUGH after the damage is done. And there are not appropriate resources. We take them to counseling, participate in counseling (theirs and our own), we advocate in school and sports, everywhere. We build our village. It is not enough. We are the ignored group in talks such as these, we are the ones looking for and are willing to discuss this hard, hard thing. We did not create the trauma, directly or epigenetically. We sacrifice. We are the ones dismissed. We are begging for help, for research, for resources to cover expense and care deficits. We go unheard.
1. There is no freedom in perfection. 2. Free will does not exist in humans, only the illusion of free will. 3. William of Ockham was right; God cannot sin. 4. The laws and rules of humans (including those in the Torah) are flawed; you can break them, so they are really just guidelines. 5. Value is subjective, not objective. 6. Individual responsibility is a personal journey, aided by the empowerment of others educating wisdom and knowledge.
Ohh deary me, Yes it’s all good advice . But full of holes .Goverment will not help . The cost of Government help will destroy us all. I’m a small business owner and am flat out making a living while paying the many stamp Duties, GST, Business tax and personal tax . The cost of unloading a shipment from a boat is now greater than any profit that I need to keep my business going . So in my mind . Government will cripple everything with its good intent
This woman represents mothers very well and has very good points. But as a father I disagree with the zero tolerance bullying, bullying will occur. Its inevitable. It will only change form. For reference look up altruistic cults, communes etc. Even the “most peaceful” people find a way to bully one another. The better solution is to not care about feelings but actions. We should teach children how to handle a bully. If a child approaches you with “so and so did this to me” do not ask them how they felt! Ask them what did you do about it? Children need to know how to regulate their emotions and stand up for themselves. Not rely on the institution to stick up for them. Which is quite ironic given the title of this article on the thumbnail. Side note: I don’t “need” the government to provide anything to my wife. It only costs us in our income through taxes. The private sector through technology has already figured out how to tap into the educated house wife through remote work.
While I agree deeply about our care and the well being of our children, I was a bit disappointed with this talk. Tell me if I am wrong but ARC is about coming together to discuss the problems, known solutions, and opportunities to identify, communicate, develop, and hopefully enact, broadly and unilaterally, better behavior and solutions within each of our lives. Where I was disappointed was her endless list of actions others should take, government should pay for, companies should enable, etc. This focus on others rather upon ourselves lacks the maturity of what ARC is about, I believe. I don’t doubt many of these particulars will be part of God kingdom, but we have much to do to get there. This talk drives folks, I believe, to react to particular things they agree or disagree with. I was hope for a talk that sets the stage for discussions about why parents, families, teachers, church often fall short. How can I be better if I have one of these roles? How can I help my fellows when I have the opportunity. As a business leader, am I doing enough? Why am I not having broader discussions in my business. Please, ARC should not be a stump to promote one idea over others and should not present discussions that start by creating argument. I share these critical comments with an open heart without intent for malice.
She makes many good points, but then she offered solutions as government spending more money to get involved in family situation’s. I think there are different solutions, but I’m not sure what they are. Live more frugally, on one household salary so one parent can care take the children. Home school, try to work from home…
Also, I disagree with the term “mental illness.” I have my related concepts. But on the foundational level they are not the same intellectual foundations and authorities – as those trusted by anything resembling the current secular state that is an inheritor of the last few centuries. The transition Homeword, to home-based authority as the primary anchor of fair-minded individualist neighborliness, will be a rough patch in history indeed. Almost nobody is prepared for what is necessary. For example, take the following challenge to the phrase. Mental – what now? That’s an interesting follow-up word. Define it. (Is it akin to, uh, I dunno, mental error? Uh huh. I see.) So I do not believe “mental ILLNESS” to be an actual thing. That’s a horrible, monstrous, materialistic, totalitarian concept-model left over from 19th century. To me, it sounds like a spurious and illegitimate CATEGORIZATION of HUMAN/CREATURELY reality, perception, logic, need, agenda, natural consequences, accountability (and sin), etc. But by all means, let the APA (in USA) run your family for you! Yeehaw. What a show that will become.
The world is so not ready to implement such change.Our economic model would have change to allow, perhaps one parent to be able to stay home, like it used to be ( so I am told ). To achieve that we would have to stop inflationary measures like money printing and enable enterpreneurs to innovate ( also deflationary ). There are huge interests that keep this system going. I would say we have to start from there. Fix the tool called ‘money’, to give people more freedom. Current system is slavery. When you are a slave, you are not allowed to spend time with your kids and care for them, nor care for yourself properly to be there with the kids mentally and physically. I hope we can move toward such direction of a healthy society. Great speech, but also bit of socialist there. Demand from employers to take a hit on their businesses, so parents can take care of their kids? C’mon. What about employers wellbeing and their kids? It’s not as easy as she says. There is much more nuance to it. Like said before, she needs to have a deep dive into monetary system, becasue business owners sacrifice and government funding ( taxes or money printing ) are not a solution in the current monetary system.
I’ve said for years WHERE IS THE TRUE CHURCH!!!! In my opinion the “church” enhances and highlights the self serving attitudes of today’s “christian” Church is a place for people to check that box all the while staying at a safe distance of involvement. Everyone wants the help but no one is willing to actually step up to the plate.
She lost me at bullying. Sure bullying can get out of hand, but where do you think kids get that thick skin for the adversity they will shield themselves with in the future? You think Steve Jobs never got bullied? Then the people that bully later in life have their own reckoning what an a hole they have been. Then, with guys, its our entire social order. No liberal in messed up glasses would last 1 minute in a board room or a job site without relying on the protections of an authority. When the globe is reduced to anarchy, she will be sleeping with the biggest baddest m’f’r. Stay in your lane lady.
Without fundamentally changing the organization of our society, economically and politically, mental illness will continue to be a pernicious symptom thereof. Regressing to traditional rigidity may indeed sweep the problem aside, though a problem ignored remains a problem. Direct democracy in the workplace, and direct democracy in government, is what I see as the way history will have shown as the way forward. Every word spoken at this conference is merely an effort, though undoubtedly genuine, to assuage the consequences of the very lack of those two urgently needed forms of democracy.
Later school starts…sounds like creating the lazy student who will adopt a behaviour of not getting to work on time. They will expect that their work have the same work hours… if a person learns to get out of bed in the mornings they will accomplish far more than the person who rolls out of bed at noon. She’s advocating for students to have “safe spaces” in schools…look how that’s going, schools are affirming trans kids and literally indoctrinating them into a life of absolute chaos. This woman seems a bit Woke to me. Miss Soft Soap seems to be wanting to weaken kids into becoming “poor muffins” that need to be coddled. So far, I’m not a fan, small businesses would be seriously affected by these socialist like measures. Nope! Not a fan of Miss Soft Soap. I’ll pass.
Amen Erica, Beautifully said… sadly the horse 🐎 of histrionicals is already out of its box 📦 and it’s galloping away! At break-neck speed, and some folk’s and their children are on speed… Where to start on such tactics of turn-round is a Huge! Question, but maybe ARC could begin a counter-movement of JBP-therapists, ARC-schools/college’s & Universities and ‘Health-Care!’ that cares! Dr Gabor Mate’ would be a supreme choice 👌 for Well-ness, mental & physical Health! 🙏 💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡 ✌🕊☮☯️♾☯️☮🕊✌