"But I'm a WHITE mage!" I crackled😂😂😂

I'm a 47 yr old home schooled person. Self-taught writer. Never have I felt so seen, so thank you so much for sharing this video. Subscribed!

You would make a great best friend. I’m binge watching your videos. The whole time im thinking “how great would it be to hang out with her.” :)

I have no idea how I came across your channel, but I am so glad I did. I am not a writer, but I am an avid reader and I love getting insight into the writing publishing mechanics. What I love about you is that you are so grounded. You know who you are. You know what you want. And you go about living your values. You have a lot to say that the world needs to hear. You are a terrific example of how to lead a fulfilling contented life. That would be an excellent topic for one of your videos: “How I lead a contented fulfilling life. It might not be for everyone, but it works for me.😅

Love your personality, very relatable. It’s like visiting with a friend who has very high emotional intelligence, empathic, and gives great advise without judging. Good job on the editing and the bloopers at the end are smile worthy.

I homeschooled/ semi-unschooled my kids and always gave them the option to go to public school if they wanted. My middle son decided to go to public school in 8th Grade and after three days told me, "Mom, public school is not for me!" He is now a software engineer (never went to university either) and spent a good part of his teen years building computers and learning to write code (because that's what he wanted to do). My youngest son decided to go to public school for high school, and always had the option to be homeschooled again if he chose to. The "how do you socialize" question was something I also had to deal with. We joined the local theatre when the boys were around 8 and 10 and enjoyed being part of that community. They also had friends over, visited their friends and played with all the kids in our neighborhood. They could have conversations with toddlers and adults equally.

I wish I was unschooled because I was “the smart kid” in school who loved math and science and reading and was always bored because class didn’t go fast enough. I have a daughter who I homeschool and unschool. We do three days of more structured learning and then two days where she can pursue her interests. She uses that time to do videography, build Lego towns, write/illustrate books, and do building projects with her grandfather. I love seeing her pursue her interests and honestly she probably learns more on those two days of freedom than the three that are structured. We also don’t restrict her access to technology but instead restrict what she does with it. She can watch nature documentaries (her favorite) every day if she wants (though not all day), and though she can’t play random video games every day, she can play educational games (Minecraft has a full set of worlds that are designed to be educational for instance and focus on science, engineering, and history for instance). She has weekly adventures where she goes out to socialize with people of all ages and not just kids her age. So far, it has been working well and she loves it and is still meeting expected educational landmarks, just in a different way.

Best way to teach math: have kids make a garden and plant it. The number of seeds and plants needed...the cost, the percentage of what survived and may some biology...why did only some survive... etc.

I was unschooled! My parents were extremely religious and were afraid that we would be brainwashed if we went to school. So instead we were brainwashed at home and basically part of a religious cult where the Bible was our only curriculum and women weren’t allowed to wear pants, etc. My parents had 11 kids and no time to teach us, so we would play outside (no TV) and borrow PILES of books from the library (mostly fiction). My parents paid me $50 to read the KJV Bible cover to cover. I was decent at reading and writing comprehension, but I hated math. At 24 (with only a 5th grade understanding of math) I decided to go to college and took the SAT and somehow got into college after begging my parents to give me a high school transcript so I could apply (which they largely made up). I eventually graduated from college with a BA in English (and got an A in Algebra). I’m currently making almost six figures as a paralegal, but my true passion is writing and I wish I could become a full time author. Currently working on a novel and found your channel by researching the writing process on KZfaq. I find your videos so refreshing and I love your sense of humor. Keep up the great work!

I'm very envious of your childhood, honestly. At age 48, I still feel like I was never fully accepted by my parents. I was raised in a strict evangelical Christian home. My parents forced me to go to college. I got addicted to drugs and dropped out to tour with an indie rock band that was signed to a Christian record label. Now I work in an awful warehouse, and in my limited spare time, I write bizarro horror books that don't sell. I really do want to be a professional, though. I'm trying to be excited about creativity, art, and learning like you are, but every day, I think about killing myself. I guess my meds aren't working anymore, haha. Anyway, I think you're so awesome and real, and I'll try to be inspired. I really will! Thank you for your videos!🙏🖤

Hello! The KZfaq algorithm decided it wanted to introduce me to you and I'm so glad it did! This video is so timely. Thank you for sharing your homeschool/unschool journey. For many reasons, my husband and I also decided to homeschool our two children. As a blended mixed cultural family, it was very important to us that our girls be allowed the time and space to get to know themselves, follow their interests, and be free to be who they were without the undue pressure of others. Both of them were very precocious from a very young age and wanted to learn about the world around them. We followed their lead and provided the necessary resources to enhance their experiences. We began our homeschool journey with a structured curriculum but then, as we evolved and grew, moved into interest-led learning. Each year we'd sit as a family and talk about what the girls wanted to learn and also discussed which skills we thought they needed to acquire. When they were young, the 3Rs were a non-negotiable but they were easily and seamlessly integrated into whatever we were learning. For the most part, they directed their own learning, with guidance when needed. My job was mostly resource gathering, planner of things, observer. And alghout we live in a very relaxed homeschool state, I documented their learning by subject should the law were to ever change or if we ever needed to provide documentation for any reason in the future. Direct instruction took very little time. We also put limits on technology, but not just for them...for all of us. To this day, we seldom turn on our television during the day. History, science, math, language arts, foreign languages, health, music, sports, etc was interconnected and imbedded. Our older daughter did not enjoy math at all so during her teen years, we focused on what she needed to pass the SAT because she thought she wanted attend university. She played musical instruments and loved foreign languages so when I happened upon research that stated these two specific pursuits touched on the same part of the brain as maths did, we left the rest of it behind and never looked back. We learned financial literacy together and how to do maths in the real world. Both girls got jobs as soon as they could legally work and we learned about budgeting, spending, savings and investing. As you mentioned, socialization happened in the real world and each time we walked out of the house...which we did ALOT since both girls had activities that took us outside for extended periods of time. For years we belonged to the most wonderful and diverse homeschool group in which families of all ages, races, sizes, creed came together in the spirit of community. We are still friends with many of the families we met there. We also spent a lot of time with family friends and the girls made many friends and socialized with people they met though related activities. Of course, they also interacted their colleagues. We too did not push college. If their interests led to college, then so be it. And if not, then so be that. Both of them are extremely artistic and creative in their own individual ways. One loved to play the piano and organ, foreign languages, costume design, theatre, and cooking. The other loved to sing, draw, took circus/aerial classes, and taught herself to play the guitar. They both read voraciously and spent an inordinate amount of time writing. One year I gifted them each a fountain pen which led to the most amazing rabbit hole. I'd often find them writing and leaving letters to each other in discreet places while dressed gowns that we bought while thrifting. The daughter who loved to read about history spent a sizable part of a year researching and recreating (she taught herself how to sew) historical costumes, and made and wore a Greek chiton dress costume around the house like it was a housecoat. The daughter who loved maths often calculated problems on the floor inside the ring of her beloved hula hoop while practicing aerial splits. We served tea and finger sanwhiches while we read aloud to each other. We learned to knit and crochet together and several times a week, we intentionally set aside time to work on our craft while listening to music or an audiobook. Knitting is now a great passion of mine, given to me by my children. We would often spend entire days reading in the same room, stopping only for meals and bathroom breaks. My husband would find us all still in our pajamas in the same spot he left us when he left for work that day. When her teen years arrived, our older daughter decided she wanted to formally study classical music at university (she'd been studying and playing the piano and organ for years at that point). She formally prepared for it but during the application process that she pivoted and decided to study nursing instead. Our younger daughter wanted to go to our local public school for high school. And although she really disliked it, she finished, graduated and attended university her freshman year. They are now young adults working and living in the world. Have there been ups and downs? Yes, of course, but such is life. Also, I do not underestimate the immense privilege we had at our disposal to have lived and learned alongside each other. I will forever cherish the many memories during this time in our lives. Thank you for taking the time to read my essay comment...but remember, you literally asked for it! 🤣

So relatable! I was homeschooled/ in a cult until about 7th grade when i started school (it was hell AND i had a horrible home life) BUT i learned so much and read and drew so much and at school i had my library rations and was always getting in trouble for reading during class so its great if you have great parents to go with it 😂😅 PS i am happy with how i turned out and my style of learning.

I am thoroughly enjoying your channel. I’m a writer and enjoy your many asides. This has been a breath of fresh air.

i ADORE your concept of unschooling oneself as an adult. thank you for sharing! i was homeschooled K-12 in the late 90s through 2000’s. my family and homeschool group were very religious. thankfully we lived in a city so it was a little less fundamentalist than our country cousins - at least no one got condemned to hell 😅🫣 - but i always preferred the hippie homeschoolers. if i have kids, i’m hoping to be a hippie unschooler (even if the kids choose they want to go to an institutional school, i agree it’s still unschooling). i managed to complete my bachelors and masters with perfect grades, but it would have been a much better experience with a foundation of agency and self-regulation rather than shame and guilt.

Oh my goodness I loved this video. Steve Martin - I've got all 3 Father of the Bride movies and don't know how many times I've seen them. You've definately had a fascinating life. No offence but now I don't feel so weird! I started with correspondence school which here in Australia is similar to homeschool and then eventually I was able to go to school. I was mostly homeschooled because of a medical condition. I even went to high school but didn't finish because even though I could have finished I chose to stay home and look after my mum who was diagnosed with a terminal illness and cared for her till she passed. Also I was never an A grade student but my favourite subjects were English and Art which I did reasonable well in. It was a public school but they mostly seemed to only care about the ones who had good grades. I then did some courses to try and get a job. But my favourite hobbies throughout all those years I were reading, writing and art. My favourite books were the babysitters club books and I wanted to be a writer like Ann M. Martin. I've written on and off over the years and have even come close to finishing a book, but then I met my husband who's not very supportive of my dreams and thinks it's silly and that I'm silly and weird. I write for myself now and been working on cozy mysteries - which is my latest obsession! There's also so many other creative projects I'm working on and wish I had more time to do it all.

Interesting discussion... Plus I do love the cat photo bombing your recordings

This is interesting and mentally helpful lol-! I’m 21 and been sTRUGGLING to find a purpose of what I wanna do with my life. College has been stressful and all I’ve ever want to do is dedicate my time in improving my art to become an illustrator or concept artist.

I'm glad it worked out for you so well. By contrast I conformed to societal norms - high school, science degrees at university, military service - but I can't say I ever felt fulfilled, perhaps you lose a part of yourself in these endeavours. I'm 49 now and work an office job (my choice) but my main interest for years has been modern poetry. Poetry speaks to me like nothing else, I feel blessed to have found this hobby.

I think I would have loved to be unschooled but since my parents were religious and sent me to a denomination specific school from kindergarten through college, I don't think I would have had the freedom to truly explore my interests anyway. It wan't until I went to one of the more liberal of the colleges my last two years where I was exposed to philosophy that started to give me permission to think for myself and allow me to ask the questions that had been bubbling inside me since I was a kid. I wish I would have had someone tell me they were a White Mage when I was a kid so I could have asked what that meant. We were only allowed to have friends within our religion. It is sad to think back on. But I'm grateful for the free reign I give my curiousity now. It's also taken me to my late 30s and now early 40s to allow myself to learn how to do true self care and say no to what feels like a no and yes to only what is a true yes. It's becoming very liberating but it's a lot of unlearning. :)

I knew a few kids like you growing up - parents were somewhat hippies but into fantasy (mostly LotR); sometimes the kids were homeschooled and AVID readers, which I loved. A few went to our church as well.

I've been binge-watching your videos today. I'm so glad I found your channel. :) I was homeschooled. I wouldn't say unschooled, but my mom did let me direct the path of my education quite a bit. I absolutely loved being homeschooled, because I got to read all day once I finished my schoolwork, and the work I did for school was fulfilling and useful. I don't regret a second of it. I did go to college. Now I wonder how much of that was due to social pressure. I wish, often, that I hadn't. On the other hand, it was helpful in some ways, and I have no debt from it. So I don't regret it that much. I just wonder if I could have spent my time in a more fulfilling and productive way (I think I could have). Great video! So cool to hear about your personal experience.

I love this! I mostly went to public school but I was homeschooled (over the computer, not my parents) part of 8th and all of 9th grade. I love it because i've been made to feel bad for being a writer sometimes, not because of that, but because I don't have any college education, and have no desire to go to college. Even if I didn't have physical disabilities that would make it difficult (and i'm aware online college is a thing I could probably do) I still... don't want to. Not because I don't love to learn, I do! But because school just wasn't a good place to do that for me. For multiple reasons. I had Algebra in 11th grade (long story as to why it was that late, involving the homeschooling of 8th/9th grade where I didn't pick any classes for 9th or 10th, they got chosen for me unlike everyone else) and... I had been fine in math until that point. I barely passed Algebra 1 and that was my last math class, didn't need one in 12th grade. I've never used Algebra... i'm 35 now. What point was there to struggling with that and being told "screw you" by the teacher when I told her I needed help? I struggled with reading growing up to (finally figured out my issue with that - as an adult no thanks to school) even though I always liked reading to some degree I struggled to remember what I read. I just needed to slow down and let myself process what I was reading. Now I am an avid reader and i've always loved to write. I was an introverted outcast in school. There are so many ways to learn. Reading, videos, documentaries etc. Formal school isn't the only way (and often isn't even the best way...) I don't regret going to public school though because the year of homeschool was awful because I was at my dad's and stepmom's and... yea, i'd have been in the religous category of homeschoolers and i've left said religion since then... because of reasons. And I made some friends. But due to being multiply disabled it wasn't easy and I learn better on my own time. But I needed to get away from my parents. But i'm 35 now and can learn what I want my own way! And I love to read nonfiction books about all kinds of things and watch videos and stuff as well.

I unschool my two girls, and I loved hearing your story. You mentioned technology and screen time in context of unschooling and while our experience may not work for everyone, it definitely worked for us. I have never imposed any screen time limits ony kids. Since very young age, they had access to tablets, later iPads, and they were able to watch tv for as long as they wanted. Now they are teenagers and they rarely watch tv. The X box gets used few times a year. Both use their ipads a lot more, but spend very little time scrolling on social media. Instead, they write stories, read books and manga, watch KZfaq, documentaries, chat with friends, learn languages etc. The fact that screen wasnt seen as something forbidden or scarce means they learnt to self-regulate and are happy to have a break from the screen time by crochetting (which they learnt by watching KZfaq tutorials).

This was a great video! Thank you for sharing this. I'm a millennial (b. 1988) and I feel like I ran the whole gamut of education: private school in elementary, public in junior high, and then I heard you could get your GED and start college at 16 and wanted to do that, so I dropped out of 9th grade (I was 14) and was unschooled until I turned 16 and got my GED. During those two years, I dove into my love for stories through writing and learning about filmmaking and I had an absolute blast. That was the happiest and most myself I'd ever been throughout my "K-12" years. I don't necessarily regret going to college at 16, but it took me twice as long to get a bachelors degree because I switched my major so many times and took so many semesters off. I just didn't know what career I needed or wanted to have...because all I really wanted to do was write, but thought I needed to have a "real job." And that wasn't even because my parents pressured me - they didn't - but all of my friends were going to college and like most people, I assumed that was what you're suppose to do. Anyway, I like the degree I have (human and family services - I call it the "poor man's social work" degree 😏), but I never use it. I'm an aspiring speculative fiction author now, and am unschooling my son. He's getting a combined "religious hippie" unschooling experience. (Speaking of, sorry kids condemned you to hell. 🙄🤦🏼‍♀ For what it's worth, we just started reading the 7th Harry Potter book aloud, which we do right after our daily Bible story, so...there's that. 😆) Like your sister, my son - who just turned 9 - only really got comfortable with reading and writing this past year. Besides spending a little time on the basics every day, I stopped pushing it because he hated it whenever I would. He just wasn't ready...but when he finally was, it's almost like he got it overnight. Now he loves it, and a whole new world's opened up to him! It's so encouraging to see unschooled adults thriving, but like you said: it is hard to navigate the technology thing when we had such a different experience growing up. We really want to limit his tech use (for him it's playing video games and watching kid-friendly gaming KZfaqrs he likes; no social media), but that's also the world he's growing up in and going into, so we just try to keep it really balanced in our home. Time will tell, I guess! 😆 Anyway, sorry for the novel. Thanks again for sharing this video! I really enjoyed it, and look forward to watching more.

I can so relate. I was not homeschooled but I was super intelligent and found very out of place and books became my best friends. I started going to a brick-and-mortar college but later changed to an online program and I was much more comfortable. I excelled and I found these professors challenged my abilities and brought them out. I then ended up teaching but later due to chronic illness I started working from home and run my own business now and yes, it's much better than working out in the world. Thanks for sharing your story.

Maths was always difficult for me growing up, I wasn't aware I had (numbers dyslexia) Dyscalculia.

Omg the thing about thinking you're the only one....before the internet. That is so true!!!! 😂 I was always attracted to men but was ready to just live all by my own because I thought there is noone else thinking and feeling like me! Same with being creative! I always thought that the people creating art are just natural gifted talents....no work needed...and I was told this too.

Thanks for this! I unschool my children and while I'm confident in my decisions and capabilities sometimes the doubt does creep in.

I’m so so sorry for the loss of yr lovely fur baby. I have been there with my black beauty as well. 🫂So happy to see you on KZfaq and so glad yr liking it 🖤🖤🖤🖤

I unschooled my kids. My oldest is now in her mid-thirties. She had very similar experiences. I did not follow any curriculum and let the kids decide how to direct their interests. My youngest tried going to public school for a few years, but by the time he reached high school, he was done with the system. Socializing wasn't too much of an issue for my kids. Due to the disabilities of my middle child, all three were very close. We also traveled (by car across North America) a lot which kept us busy. When we did settle for a while our neighborhood was full of kids their ages. They just went outside "after school" like all the other kids. I will note that my oldest had a much different experience from my youngest because technology made some giant leaps. She started using computers when it was still dial-up. She taught herself how to write code and build her own computers. In contrast, when my youngest started coding he was creating mobile games with his friends. My middle child was the one who went full-on science and science fiction.

Fantabulous! Unschooling my kids was so much fun and worth all the flack from the status quo. I think your braids are great and your eyebrows are naturally in the right place. Lucky. Now I need to read one of your books:)

Greetings from a fellow-generational homeschooler. Apparently I was in the crazy religious camp, which really tainted the education experience, and I'm still coping with elements of it. Also: I dropped out of college about 18 credits shy of a degree ... and, plot twist, I am the most "successful" (financially sound?) of my siblings. Go figure. Anyway, I've been watching and liking ... keep it up!

You're so awesome for making this video! I am a mom of 4 kids and we have been unschooling for 4 years! Not always easy in this society we live in but videos like yours just remind me that I'm doing the right thing for our family and my children! Thank you so much!

So far I love your channel! I was homeschooled for 3 years for middle school. My bf and also my best friend who I met in college were both homeschooled, too. And yeah where I live most of the groups were religious. But mostly in the Veggie Tales vein. Unfortunately the groups either had the teenagers who were watching us (2 -4 years older than me) or little kids (8 and below.). I was also very into writing, too, only there was a lot of Lion King and Warrior Cats fan fics. Haha, I too, am a NO TRESSPASSING person. I laughed so hard at "How do you socialize?" And said "You don't" before you said it.

despite being one of those of the younger generation of homeschoolers lol i can really relate to your experience. I was homeschooled until 6th grade and would play made up games with my sister and all that and i think that was hugely beneficial to me. School was, idk it was ok. I still was able to draw a lot, but my sister and I did loose a lot of interest in our made up game world and i wonder now if that would have been different if we didn't have to go to school (or maybe it was just having an enforced bedtime that really put a stop to it as a lot of our play happened before we would go to sleep and just be laying in bed in the dark). I just discovered your channel a few days ago and have found all of your videos extremely interesting, informative, and relatable. Like your notebooks from when you were a kid, I felt so seen by that because I've also kept all my old sketchbooks, notebooks and loose drawings from my whole life and love going back to them (even if they can be a little cringe sometimes). Now as a young adult I'm sort of struggling to even just be an adult and get a job and all that, but I am going to take all your advice to heart, and try better to pursue my creative paths instead of just feeling like I'm doomed to some stressful service job for the rest of my life. If I can even as half as cool as you are in a decade or two that would make me feel so much better about my life.

A lot of this sounds familiar. I went to reg public school in suburban L.A. area, not unschooled. But I was shy & bookish & did my own thing. I think I might be on the Spectrum. Struggling to focus on writing & self-publishing right now. Your videos just popped up on my feed & I'm going thru them. Thanks! 🥰

Homeschooling isn’t allowed in Germany, but I made my education kinda unconventional, as I skipped school a lot, some years over 100 hours missed. And I spent that time going to the library, reading on so many different topics. As a child I had a broughter and deeper knowledge of things than I do now. Still somewhat managed to finish school, so looking back now I‘m more proud than ashamed, cause I have no idea how I kept track 😅

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I went to public school, but I tell ya what: in my house growing up, the ultimate punishment was being denied a trip to the library. Even when I had chicken pox, I insisted I get to wait in the van for that week's trip so I could have my books as soon as possible. My older sisters picked out the books for me. Good times.

I went to school and was the weird kid that didn't fit in with anyone so spent a lot of time on my own because no one wanted to play with the weird kid. Never did well at school but was always in the library reading and writing my own stories even though I was failing English and had a teacher tell me to give up on being a writer because I struggled with English. My favourite lot of school holidays I got a heap of old computer for real cheap and spent the entire break taking them apart and putting them together again. Wish that I could have been doing that all the time. Always felt that I learnt more on my own then when I was at school.

I wasn't an A math student. But I can say at least I learned division, graphs and algebra. I would say its like reading. Advance math is not for everyone, but basic math will help your base understanding.

You sound likely neurodivergent, I am too and really wish I had been unschooled, regular school was a living hell

I feel like there'd be more happy adults like yourself if they weren't subjected to the social torture that is public school. How many kids give up being themselves, their interests, and conform to fit in? How many bullied kids lose their spark, and turn into damaged adults that need to heal. Kids are made to feel stupid if they can't pass timed tests, because that's the only way the school system recognizes your intelligence. Learning shouldn't be tied to a hostile environment. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Wow. You make me laugh. I always wished I were unschooled. I remember being so depressed when I started first grade. I felt cheated, school was supposed to be great but I hated it. And when I think of all the time wasted in school just watching teachers try to get control of a classroom full of uninterested students, it makes me sad. Unschooling may not have worked out well for me, but I'm glad it did for you! Eric Carle had a similar upbringing. I find your outlook refreshing. What a gift that you and your sisters felt like you had the skills to do whatever you wanted to do. I enjoyed your discussion!

I unschooled my youngest all her life (nearly,)and she's amazing! Afterwards, she went to college for a one year qualification and came top of her class. My eldest went to school, and at 29, she is still living with the damage it caused. When people ask me about home education, I say that it's easier to fix an education than fix a broken adult. I've seen too many kids broken by school, but if you mention unschooling, they throw their hands up in horror all while they wait years for their child to see a psychiatrist. And yes, we are faith-based, but my kids get on fine with everyone. We are all weird in our own special way. Im doing a degree in English literature and creative writing, and you're right. You totally dont need it to be a writer. There are free courses out there that are just as good. The only real benefit i have found in it is the feedback you get. Having been to school, i was convinced I was a complete idiot as i didn't fair well there. My feedback has shown me that im not, so that's helpful, I guess. It's probably not worth the money i paid for it, though. Still, im not going to stop doing it now. Im halfway through. You remind me of my daughter. You would really hit it off. Smart phones have blighted her creativity now i rue the day i let her have one!

I love Algebra. I am not a huge Fan of Analysis though.

I will give props to math you're never going to use again for one thing: it hurts your brain and makes you power through. Literally a character builder. In my opinion, once you've mastered "the Beast," you should be able to stop if you're not going into engineering or physics, or going to torture--I mean, teach--others the same.

8:22 - 9:00 lol yes!

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OmGGGG. "I'm a white mage!" ... "You're going to H***!" 🤣 That brings me back to being homeschooled through high school in an atheist family who had to attend all the homeschooling group events with the hundred Christians, one Jewish family, and one Muslim family. Lol. Also my fundie Christian cousins on my mom's side who just... secretly hated everything about us every time we got together. 😅 (The IRONY of, as a kid, those cousins calling FFX Yuna "demon-possessed" and a Harry Potter Lego set "an abomination," and now similar Christians are backing J.K.R for being a transphobe.... 🙄 )

LOL! I had a very similar experience to you. I was teaching origami to a bunch of kids at a Christian school. I like to make the instructions into “Storygami,” which incorporates a story into the folding process. Instead of pictures, you have the appearance of the origami at that current step. Anyway, one of my stories was about a white witch. And the second I started, a couple of children stopped me and said “But we’re not supposed to talk about witches. Won’t you go to hell if you’re a witch?” And I said, “But this is about a WHITE witch…” which only earned me a series of confused, dubious stares. Needless to say, that story wasn’t a hit with its audience. ;)

This argument against homeshooling because of learning math is strange to me for two reasons. First, most people suck at math, even semi-professionals and professionals. I mean ask an average engineer to derive the formula for the simple liner regression without looking it up in a textbook (e.g. give him 5 dots and ask him to calculate the line that is closest to all of those dots in average). I guarantee you it's like flipping a bug on its back. They will be so angry with you. Second, the few ones that can actually do something with math don't really pick that up in the school. And if you think school does a good job to endear math, then, I'd say you should think again.

It's nice to hear a "homeschool kid success story" cuz my wife's homeschooling was less than ideal. They definitely would've told you you were going to hell DESPITE being a white mage.

your videos are oddly addicting. love your personality. Maybe you're a satanic white mage throwing spells at us

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Have you considered going to college, like maybe getting your associates degree?

I'll go where you won't and totally disparage schools 😆. At least for artists stuck in the traditional system. I spent nearly every day of K-12 being bored and the latter half ignoring as much as I could get away with while reading a book hidden under my desk. And I thought I was lazy. Many years later, circumstances drove me back to school, I got a PhD, became a professor, and then quit to do what I wish I would have just embraced from my youth: write fantasy romance! Your background sounds amazing and so freeing for children and creativity. Edit to add: having said the above, public school saved me. My family was abusive and psychotically religious and backwards in what they expected me to be as a girl. Submissive forever to them and then to a husband. Public school at least provided exposure to ideas they couldn't control as well as some monitoring so they eventually were exposed for what they were doing.

Your video showed up in my feed. So happy it did! Hi there, not homeschooled but I’m a 45yr old creative kindred spirit. PS white mages are awesome!😄🤍