Ugh YES! I’m glad someone else pointed it out....I thought I was being too judgmental. We are a homeschool family, I have 4 kiddos and we started when my oldest son graduated 5th grade. The neighborhood school he was assigned to at the time had a HUGE physical violence problem and made the news every other day, our oldest daughter was in an all girls charter school and our two youngest were not “school age” yet. I spent the first year with just my son homeschooling and quickly noticed that, even though his younger siblings were 4 and 2, they were picking up what I was teaching their brother. My oldest finished that school year and asked if she could be homeschooled too. Year two I had one in 8th grade, one in 6th and one in Kindergarten ...plus my 3yr old that was convinced she was in high school lol. Year two was LOTS of trial and error, learning how to incorporate lessons into everyday life to keep them engaged versus making them sit at desk for 3-4hrs twice a day, learning what my teaching style was and how to give them the socialization they needed. While our school days don’t look like a typical classroom, our days are scheduled out several weeks in advance and our lessons build on previous lessons. For example, meal planning sounds pretty simple to most....in our house it’s a reading and math lesson for the tinies, life skills-planning-math lesson for my oldest two...every Friday they know that meal planning is part of the educational day. Watching them bust out a white board and schedule a break immediately after wake up, then pack merch for 10 minutes and then “porch time” had me fuming.....kids don’t always need to know they are learning to actually be learning, recess for example....I’ll take my kiddos geo-caching(math, reading, map reading AND physical excercise), heck even playing in the yard can be a lesson. My kids are always hunting for unusual critters/plants to google and learn about(reading, biology, writing), they each have a notebook with them and some of them will draw the critter/plant, some describe it with words and some bring it to Mom and say “close your eyes and hold out your hands”
They will ask for a jar to hold their critters to study them more and enjoy freeing them later. Life is full of educational opportunities but you cannot properly educate kids by the seat of your pants, it requires discipline and scheduling and thinking outside the box.