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Where did your parents fail or miss in your education ?
Posted by EntrepreneurNovice • 4/22/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: education, parenting
My father was a Doctor, all our family wanted to be like him, a brilliant intellectual. That's why today I'm scientist engineer.
But there was something that had been really lacking: it was education about money: in fact it was considered evil to ever talk about that. This has been a huge handicap for me because for long I was unable to really manage my life financially.
Where did your parent fail or miss in your education ?
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I was homeschooled until age 10, when economic necessity forced my parents to send me to school (this is why I can speak english at a 6th grade level, while the general population can speak it at about a 3rd grade level). You see my parents were the conservative equivelent of communitarian hippies--that is to say our family lived alone up in the woods learning how to target shoot. One time on a "field trip" from home school we (and a bunch of other anti-communist radicals) went to Vancouver WA to protest visiting Soviet dignitaries that were commemorating some plane landing. Traffic had been diverted on SR14 to make the commemoration safe, so we took the opportunity to inform them of world events with signs like "STOP BUILDING TOY BOMBS" being that that was during the Soviet war with Afghanistan. We capped off the days festivities by tearing up a Soviet flag vithin potential view of dignitaries. Social Studies was indeed interactive for us!
Suppose I got a bit off topic... my bad-
I was homeschooled too because of war but it was great as I hated school. So I knew maths at 2 years old, could read perfectly at 4 and write perfectly at 6 because my parent were my own teachers not some foreigners.
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Birds and bees. My Dad strarted progressively reading us a book on the subject, but we found it under the bed.
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My parents didn't fail me at all, I believe. Whenever I wanted a book or to study a new subject, they encouraged me. -
my parent's didn't educate me -
My father failed me by ruining my childhood and consequently my education,and not caring one bit about it.
Been a long journey to makeup for that.
Culturally speaking we didn't talk about money growing up in England, considered bad taste, but that didn't really translate into not being aware of how to manage it. Despite a ruined education and childhood, I did learn from those around me to be pragmatic.-
In fact I've been an adopted child. I lost my father and my mother was then too busy to try to find money so she couldn't educate me correctly. But I understand and I was well educated later by my adoptive parents.
Sometimes it's not easy for parents. When I was a child I didn't understand why my mother was so obsessed about finding money I thought It was easy to get some. Now I understand. -
My father abused me and he went to prison for it.
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In such case for sure I won't forgive and to any parents. It's really unbelievable.
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i'd say money too. money was never a problem for us, so my parents never really bothered to teach us not to spend it so thoughtlessly.
also, they were very hands-off about my education in a strange way. they never cared what subjects i pursued, but they did demand me to be best at it (emphasis on "demand"). they didn't mind that i skipped most of high school to go to the library and read eastern philosophy, nietzsche, blavatskaja, etc.
discipline is another problem. i feel like i can do whatever i want and i don't like that. some people need boundaries; my parents thought it better not to have any.
i guess i'd say if there's any good in that, then it must be the fact that i can truly say that i've made all the decisions in my life. -
I've had a pretty comprehensive education.
The only thing I can really complain about is being taught revisionist history - but really, it permeates the schools and has for eons. I can't blame my parents for that
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Yeah, corporations write text books. go figure
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I have a 1912 Social Studies book and when my daughter read the description of natives and saw the drawings she was shocked. We have come a long way from referring to non whites as savages, and depicting them in ways that denigrates them, and highlights people from the lower classes and the least educated as examples of their culture and country. What is interesting to explore though is that we had a generation brought up on that and accepted it as valid and true.
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There's a difference between ignorant history (racism being present) and revisionist history.
Revisionist history is the history written by the victors. It's history that omits certain damaging details, it's history of the US that forgets to mention things like how the west was really won, and what Christopher Columbus was really like. It's romanticized, fake, and only partially explained.
Our kids here only get partial truths, and still hold onto a lot of political propaganda.
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1. Not letting me skip 2 grades when I was 5 out of concerns for my brother's ego.
2. Keeping me in public school when they could afford private.
3. Abuse & slavery that kept me from focusing on studies. -
I share your same issue EntrepreneurNovice. I wish i was more financially educated. Instead the topic actually scares me. I go back inside my shell when the topic of money comes up
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