Miguel from Nerzhinsk writes: Hey Uncle Yarv, I figured I’d take this opportunity to ask you about something that, while not immediately applicable to me, I think about a lot—parenting. Genetic determinism is compelling but I’m not sure how it should practically impact my future parenting outside of procreating with a genetically impressive individual. It seems less important to read your kids a bedtime story than it is to pass on the genes that make you
As a traditionalist Christian with children, I agree with the respect, understand, and pity approach.
However, I would caveat that we are still choosing to homeschool. There are plenty of good reasons to do so, but for our purposes there is one reason I want to specifically highlight: I don't want the school system to have authority over my children. Just because I want my children to understand the modern world does not mean that I need to grant the modern world the opportunity to do things to my children without my consent.
Obviously it is very important for children to have other adults in their life, people they can turn to besides their parents. However, public school teachers are only rarely worthy of that responsibility, and their job provides them a certain level of immunity from the consequences should they do harm.
Yarv, why aren’t you giving your kids full immersion in San Francisco Unified School District’s world renowned critical race theory and diversity equity inclusion?
The principle of Macintyre's admonition of Rod Dreher can be applied to virtually anything. "the moment you consider yourself liberal or conservative you're done for". A truly vital force doesn't need critical insulation or propagandising. These are both actions taken by people who know in their guts that they're losing.
I am scanning the interwebz for any evidence that Uncle Yarv has a secret brother also purveying life tips to nerds, spergs, and incipient revolutionaries. Will our existence in century 21 remove the required Ann Landers factor to accompany our newly-minted Dear Abby?
My based opinion? Only history will know. All hail Uncle Yarv.
I have a six month old daughter, and I must admit I have no clue how I'm going to approach this can of worms. My wife and I are both extremely rebellious temperamentally, so I'm leaning towards the Yarv method (the idea being, our daughter will rebel against the system instead of leveraging the system to rebel against us). Does anyone have any experience with this / advice?
I have a nearly two-year-old son and worry about many of the same things. My wife works at a catholic school, so we hope to start to send him there in another year. Homeschooling isn't an option for us. Public school is out of the question. Catholic School seems like a good option because they do have to follow the state-mandated curriculum and some of the teachers are libs so he will ingest some of the blue-goop, but it's more spaced-out and hopefully he will be spared the worst excesses of the Cathedral (The wrong kind of Cathedral anyway, ha). I rebelled against my own family's faith (Evangelical Christian) and converted to Catholicism--I know Uncle Yarv recently said something about not trusting converts, haha. So, I have to expect my son might follow a similar path as a cradle Catholic. But, I hope with a combo of the Catholic schooling and some of the pity option, I can spare him from some of the worst the libs have to offer.
As a traditionalist Christian with children, I agree with the respect, understand, and pity approach.
However, I would caveat that we are still choosing to homeschool. There are plenty of good reasons to do so, but for our purposes there is one reason I want to specifically highlight: I don't want the school system to have authority over my children. Just because I want my children to understand the modern world does not mean that I need to grant the modern world the opportunity to do things to my children without my consent.
Obviously it is very important for children to have other adults in their life, people they can turn to besides their parents. However, public school teachers are only rarely worthy of that responsibility, and their job provides them a certain level of immunity from the consequences should they do harm.
Yarv, why aren’t you giving your kids full immersion in San Francisco Unified School District’s world renowned critical race theory and diversity equity inclusion?
The principle of Macintyre's admonition of Rod Dreher can be applied to virtually anything. "the moment you consider yourself liberal or conservative you're done for". A truly vital force doesn't need critical insulation or propagandising. These are both actions taken by people who know in their guts that they're losing.
I am scanning the interwebz for any evidence that Uncle Yarv has a secret brother also purveying life tips to nerds, spergs, and incipient revolutionaries. Will our existence in century 21 remove the required Ann Landers factor to accompany our newly-minted Dear Abby?
My based opinion? Only history will know. All hail Uncle Yarv.
I have a six month old daughter, and I must admit I have no clue how I'm going to approach this can of worms. My wife and I are both extremely rebellious temperamentally, so I'm leaning towards the Yarv method (the idea being, our daughter will rebel against the system instead of leveraging the system to rebel against us). Does anyone have any experience with this / advice?
I have a nearly two-year-old son and worry about many of the same things. My wife works at a catholic school, so we hope to start to send him there in another year. Homeschooling isn't an option for us. Public school is out of the question. Catholic School seems like a good option because they do have to follow the state-mandated curriculum and some of the teachers are libs so he will ingest some of the blue-goop, but it's more spaced-out and hopefully he will be spared the worst excesses of the Cathedral (The wrong kind of Cathedral anyway, ha). I rebelled against my own family's faith (Evangelical Christian) and converted to Catholicism--I know Uncle Yarv recently said something about not trusting converts, haha. So, I have to expect my son might follow a similar path as a cradle Catholic. But, I hope with a combo of the Catholic schooling and some of the pity option, I can spare him from some of the worst the libs have to offer.
Are all these "Uncle Yarvs" an elaborate troll?