Actually, my previous snarky comment aside, I was thinking about this over lunch and what really rubs me the wrong way about the typical homeschooling advocacy I hear — this piece emphatically included — is that most of what they present as “education” is stuff that my parents did with little baby…

Haha. Yeah... I was ready to be openminded about a “normal parent” homeschooling because I know there are a lot of interesting means to do so these days, but proud natural mamas who reject “condescending” doctors, cosleep, and distrust the system to understand their special children who need to free learn without the…

It does read as something written by someone very unaware of their own privilege. I mean, I’m sure we’d all love to spend our days exploring nature as a family and whatall but you need to be very secure in the way your life is set up on order to do so. I don’t just mean money-wise - although, a piece that waves the…

But Sanders is not a team player. Never has been and never will be. His identity is tied to being the “lone” voice “fighting the good fight”. He never supported or stumped for down ticket candidates that supported him; instead he went to go meet the Pope. Even in his own state, it’s not like he has led a socialist…

I’m not receptive to this idea because whether schooling works for parents isn’t the point. The point is to educate children. And given the relatively short shrift paid to what her children get out of this arraignment (they socialize fine! If they dont want to be inside, they don't have to be!) I think the focus is in…

A bunch of supervised field trips to various museums and nature trails with a bunch of clingy moms around isn’t remotely the same in terms of developing social skills as actually being largely on your own with your peers every day and having to learn to form and maintain social relationships. Which is why so many…

I’ve never used physics or biology as an adult (or any high-level math), but I’m certainly very glad I had good public school teachers who instilled reasoning techniques, problem-solving techniques, learning techniques, etc. Those I use all the time.

Because YOU not using physics or biology is a pretty poor predictor of whether your kids are going to need to, or more importantly want to have the option of, using physics or biology. If you want to make sure your kid is a potter, then all you need to teach him is pottery. But that’s pretty selfish, because neither…

I try really hard not to criticize how other people parent their children... Co-sleep or cry it out, natural birth or c-section, attachment parenting or au pair, working mom or stay at home, I won’t weigh in on another parents decisions in any of those areas.

You're damn right it's convenient that your Father is able and willing to help you with the other children. An inconvenient truth is that a lot of us don't have that option.

I could never homeschool because my kids aren’t named Rain and Skye, I prefer to vaccinate them, they have had haircuts before the age of 5, none of them have a strange food allergy and, quite frankly, both of us parents have to work.

Hooray, another bit of discourse in which “normal” equals “people with way more money than us.”

Homeschooled kids are weirdos: Please do not homeschool your children.

I actual wrote a book on normal parents homeschooling!

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Correction: GQ’s Drew Magary.

I thought Peyton was the statue in the Super Bowl?

This is an old photo. A Von Miller statue has that ball now.

I misread the headline and thought there was another domestic abuse scandal brewing.

Isn’t Aroldis Chapman also a hitter?