Posted on 11/18/2021 9:30:15 AM PST by fruser1
The parents of 10 children who all started university before the age of 13 insist their children are 'not geniuses' but credit homeschooling for their family's academic success.
High school sweethearts Monalisa Harding, 53, and her husband Kip, 53, from San Jose, California, homeschooled all their children from the same syllabus.
They knew they were on the right track after getting their first three children through high school aged 11.
Their oldest, Hannah, earned her bachelors in mathematics at the age of 17 from Auburn University, Montgomery in 2004 - making her the first child prodigy.
Last year youngest child Thunder, 11, passed his entrance exams to college, joining Lorennah, 13, who is in her second year.
Those of the Harding siblings who have already graduated from college have gone on to become doctors, architects, spacecraft designers and lawyers.
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Was awesome....
Did it in SoCal..and ended it in NE OK.....
Both are very successful.....productive citizens.
Our school taxes went up by a few hundred dollars. This is absurd!
Imagine as a parent always being on the losing side of arguments agaisnt your brainy kids. You could never punish them for anything they did wrong because they could always argue their way out of it lol
The key statistic here is not all the success at a young age. It’s the fact that there are 11 of them! There’s hope. Black families should take a clue from this.
ARTH PING!
LOL, in one of my favorite books “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman” an autobiographical work of Richard Feynman (the youngest core member of the Manhattan Project on the Physics end)
A certifiable genius, no doubt.
When he was a professor later, he had Jewish rabbinical students who studied the Torah, and they would engage him with questions like “Is an electrical spark considered “fire”?”
He realized they were asking it to figure out how to fit the Torah into modern life (Can’t use fire on the Sabbath I think) And he could see they were intelligent, so every time they came to him with a question along these lines, he figured out he could paint them into a corner.
LOL, every time he tried, they adroitly evaded his trap and he would discover his quarry standing on the outside of the logical argument laughing at him inside.
Richard Feynman was an extraordinary man, but he found himself to be not up to the task when it came to having arguments with those teenage rabbinical students!
My 16 year old is doing running start with a full course load at the community college. Will have her BS in nursing at 20. She is making straight A’s and has blown the “curve” in her classes.
Homeschool is not for everyone, but it has worked well for our family and it also allows us to incorporate our faith. My younger children are doing well with it as well. We have lots of activities and elective classes through our homeschool co-op.
I don’t see any other way to avoid the problems and indoctrination found in public schools and we have been blessed to be able to do it financially. It also helps that my wife was a very accomplished teacher!
We have homeschooled our 9. They are engineers nurses and small business owners. All unvaxxed too! We are allergic to social engineering
That family looks like a healthy normal family, just more of them than are in most families.
We home schooled our four kids. Our son passed the GED after the 8th grade. We started him in a college prep school but the school folded after a year. He gets his Eagle Scout, prepares for Bible Quiz competitions and starts a programming business. And then he goes to college.
All of our children are exceptional no matter which path they took. All are successful and are overachievers. All due to having a Mom that loved them more than herself, and sacrificing her personal goals for the family.
There are few reasons to go to public school anymore, and even private schools drift into indoctrination too often.
No imagination required. I just have to refer to child #4 and #6. (They are all great kids, but those two...) #1 is just as smart, but he knew there was no arguing about the stuff he pulled.
Those of the Harding siblings who have already graduated from college have gone on to become doctors, architects, spacecraft designers and lawyers.
That depends on where you go and what you study.
Lol thats pretty funny. I used to argue with the folks, but usually got nowhere 😆
I pity the parents 😆 , just kidding.
It is possible to push very hard to achieve success. It's also possible to push too hard and trash the objective. Congrats to family featured in this thread.
Easy to do. We started homeschooling late, and our daughters still started college at ages 13 and 14. Now our youngest is already starting with our granddaughter, it’s already clear that she will surpass both of my daughters.
The 3 R’s could be taught in just 3 hours a day-me thinks. So why do kids need 6 hours a day at school? Think of all that time spent preparing for the school day. Social attention can be learned within families and on a special day of the week-think Sundays.
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