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Hi! I've co-produced a new, limited series podcast called "Deschool Yourself". It's for adults who are trying to reverse the damage of the 15,000 hour schooling process. About 10 hours long, available on iTunes and Stitcher. http://deschoolyourself.com Guests include: - Dr. Peter Gray, author of "Free to Learn" - Brett Veinotte of School Sucks Project - Thaddeus Russell, author of "Renegade History of the United States" - T.K. Coleman, Education Director of Praxis Hosted by: - Jeff Till (me) - Zak Slayback, author of "The End of School" Check it out!

Side note: God bless the Christians for making homeschool possible. If a bunch of atheists asked the government for an exception to compulsory attendance laws we would've been told to go jump in a lake.

We're in the same situation. We're in the deep South. We've found a handful of secular homeschooling families but have been avoiding many of the Christian organizations. Some of our friends just still send them to the Christian homeschool clubs which actually practice scripture and such. They just try to reverse the bad information when the kids come home. Outside of the formally planned clubs, we can get along with religious folks simply by not talking about religion with them. We might meet up at park for a homeschool park day with them, but we don't have them over to break bread. It sucks overall and I would guess it's the same everywhere. Best of luck!

I've done lots of research on arguments for homeschooling and have compiled it into this near - exhaustive list: http://fivehundredyears.org/a-complete-case-for-home-education-54-arguments/ It's also in the book I vanity published, Rise Above School. http://www.riseaboveschool.com Also recommend: - John Taylor Gatto (dumbing us down, weapons of mass instruction - Gracy lewellen, Teenage Liberation Handbook - Peter Holt, Teach your own School Sucks Podcast is great too. Brett has been on FDR.

I think my favorite part was when he said regulation is what keeps a small group of rich people from getting their way.

At the risk of being nitpicky, the constitution says "Congress shall make no law..." So it's not some universal, it's just a ban on congress. Any of the other million lawmakers, governors, city mayors, etc., aren't congress. It's stupid that government thinks it gives us permission to talk. I'm surprised we don't have "freedom to choose breakfast" or "freedom to poop" in the constitution.

- Dark - Crowded - Loud music playing - Maybe disco lights - People are 2 AM drunk - For whatever reason, the cops spent THREE HOURS not going through the front door, which barely makes sense when I hear it, so many people who could've been saved with medical attention probably bled to death Sad to say, but if this was political and in response to the wars, 'Merica has it coming. x100. (Didn't watch the video)

I recently did a podcast on American nationalism and spent time looking for Patriotic songs sung in elementary school. My biggest "OMG" moment was discovering Toby Keith and his crazy super-nationalist stuff. Like all country music. Might not help if you are just looking for symphonic music. (My podcast on it if interested: http://fivehundredyears.org/the-f-word-in-america-part-ii-the-new-england-patriots-suck/

New podcast about "fascism in America: US militarism". Check it out if you have time and interest. http://fivehundredyears.org/podcast-22-the-f-word-in-america-militarism/

I found Peter Gray's, at least the first 40 pages or so, worthwhile. It's about letting children have their own time and the value of free, self-directed activity. http://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-Reliant/dp/0465084990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465232568&sr=8-1&keywords=peter+gray

I have a new podcast up. Check it out: http://fivehundredyears.org/podcast-the-curse-of-the-busybody-conformist-consumers/ In this episode, I discuss how being constantly ‘busy’ is probably a bad thing and that most people don’t properly balance their time with their consumption and life changes. I try to make the case that being “acceptably busy” is a conformist notion that has spread to every aspect of people’s lives. I steal a clip of Tim Ferriss. I also bizarrely get into the documentary “Lost Boys” about relocated Africans. As always, I take a shot at school and homework. I also explore alternate, more desirable consumption/time models that people might want to think about.

Congrats! Parenting is great fun. My advice is start planning soon how you are going to live on a single income so one parent can care for the child so he/she won't have to endure daycare, preschool, and school.

Frankly I preferred Trump's previous TV show to this one.

What Shirgall said. A modern example would be climate change alarmism, as described by a climate change skeptic. E.g., the alarmists are using 'scientism' to claim their point. Past examples might include phrenology and eugenics. Both were promoted as outcomes of science.

Reading the source material, it doesn't seem to be. The ideas of communicating with empathy, thoughtfulness to emotion and concern for other people's needs seems good on it's face. But I'll check out the critique, thanks for posting. Anyways, regardless of the technique my main point is to not turn these discussions into harsh arguments to be productive.

I would recommend looking up Non-Violent Communications so that even if it takes years of discussing issues you can still enjoy each other's company and avoid being in perpetual conflict. You can make sharing these ideas fun. My wife has always come along with me on ideas, but she doesn't treat it like a hobby like I do e.g., she has no interest in getting into the weeds with Murray Rothbard books and the like. What was very important was getting on the same page with homeschooling. That was easily a multi-year project.

Interesting. I had just finished redlettermedia's critique of the prequels (about 3 hours long on youtube) and those are both insightful and hilarious, but you'll come out disliking them more than ever.

I don't get how supporting a political candidate or even wanting to win an election libertarian 'success' by any means. Esp. this monster. Trump feels like the guy Hayek describes. After the politics and economy are so ruined from central management, the population looks to an immoral monster who claims that they have the knowledge and the willingness to fix everything.

I think I've posted this before, but it's an interesting take on Africa from 150 years ago by a famous racist: Since the dawn of history the Black Man has owned the continent of Africa – rich beyond the dream of poet’s fancy, crunching acres of diamonds beneath his bare black feet and yet he never picked one up from the dust until a white man showed to him its glittering light. His land swarmed with powerful and docile animals, yet he never dreamed a harness, cart, or sled. A hunter by necessity, he never made an axe, spear, or arrowhead worth preserving beyond the moment of its use. He lived as an ox, content to graze for an hour. In a land of stone and timber he never sawed a foot of lumber, carved a block, or built a house save of broken sticks and mud. With league on league of ocean strand and miles of inland seas, for four thousand years he watched their surface ripple under the wind, heard the thunder of the surf on his beach, the howl of the storm over his head, gazed on the dim blue horizon calling him to worlds that lie beyond, and yet he never dreamed a sail.” — Charles Darwin

There's some great programming on cable. I submit to you most HBO series. But I guess this is a list of "red flags", not "dealbreakers."

We homeschool our kids. From what I can tell, the curriculum seems mostly to be "Minecraft". ;-)

FWIW, my wife had three c-sections and an emergency hysterectomy and spent weeks in the hospital with infections. A c-section is a bloody affair. I can see why a doctor would want to close up the incision as soon as possible, just to minimize it being open to the elements. More for the mother's safety than the child's. IMO.

Update: In addition to finishing my 11th podcast, I've published a book on making the decision to homeschool/unschool: And I contributed to another book on unschooling: http://fivehundredyears.org/books-2/

I'm having a hard time seeing what the pregnancy has to do with anything. Get pregnant, go to work or not, take care of baby while pregnant, go on with life. Just like everybody does. A single income sounds way better than being separated from the baby. For everybody's best interest. (Me: single-income family, three young kids)

Those are some terrible things he said. This said, I always thought I'd have this elegant discussion with my children when they were like 10 about death. But they learn about it around 2-3 and can often not give the topic the relative respect or gravity it might need. I would politely correct him when he says terrible things, but I wouldn't sweat it developmentally.