Unschooler Mom Doesn’t Teach Her Child To Read And Write, Expects Her To Learn It On Her Own

By Danish Faheem
6 months ago
3 minutes read

Some skills don’t need to be taught in school. For example, almost everyone learns to speak naturally without formal education. Our brains are wired to pick up our native language just by being exposed to it. Attending a top preschool or elementary school might expand your vocabulary, but basic speech development happens naturally.

However, reading, writing, and arithmetic are different. These skills require direct instruction and practice. They don’t develop on their own just because a child is curious. There are 750 million adults worldwide who can’t read, but very few who are nonverbal. One mother who homeschooled her 8-year-old daughter believed she would learn to read on her own. She was surprised to find out that without intentional teaching, her daughter missed the critical period for learning to read.

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1. This mother posted online to share how she hadn’t taught her daughter how to read and expected her to organically learn it.

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2. Forgetting isn’t common. Not doing it intentionally is common.

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3. Keep getting yelled at. One day the point will get across.

Via @JaneOst_

4. The stage when their parents teach them how to do it. No kid is born with an instruction manual.

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5. It is unbelievable how easily parents ruin the future of their kids with neglect.

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6. They need to be blocked altogether.

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7. They have been watching too much Pokemon.

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People are so outrageous! Like how can you not make your kid learn how to read? She cannot magically wake up one day and know how to do it, that is not how it works. The girl is 8.5 years old already. I know there is no age associated to learning but we do some things in a defined timeline with every learning step having its own space. Even if her daughter starts learning how to read today. Every phase of her life associated with reading will autimatically be deferred by her age plus the number of years it takes her to learn how to read.