Welcome to Plathville Spoilers find that we know what everyone is thinking, “How can these kids not know who Spiderman is? Or Justin Beiber? COME ON!!!” and yeah, I can’t say I blame anyone for not exactly believing the Plath kids when asked about pop culture because it’s kind of obvious that they have the internet (or at least Moriah does on her phone) and they could easily look this stuff up, but, speaking as a former home schooler myself I grew up with these kinds of people and yes it is entirely possible that these kids don’t know who any of these figures are.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: A simpler way of life or blissfully ignorant?
There are people who exist in the world who only want to get their news by reading the newspaper (or going online), a lot of home school families only want to introduce their children to a completely wholesome life experience for the first 18 years of their life (or however long they live with the family) and only keep a tv around and maybe a DVD player for watching movies. Instead of television, they value the written word, reading actual books instead of downloading to a phone or kindle and for the very young children they encourage such creative endeavors as drawing and coloring.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: If it’s 2019 and you’re dressing like one of the Bronte sisters, you might be a homeschooler
As I’ve said before, there’s nothing inherently wrong with this lifestyle, it just… isn’t really present these days. I am reminded of when Moriah told one of her sisters that she reminded her of a book. Speaking as a former homeschooler myself, she’s not wrong. A lot of these home school kids do indeed act like people that you would encounter in books, and not just any books, old books, like, the old classics. But that is because technically, they only have those role models in which to look up to. So if you encounter a teenager who’s mindset seems a little outdated, chances are they might be home schooled.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Modernity holds no place for these guys
It’s not a bad idea to censor some things when it comes to your kids, after all, there’s some age inappropriate content out there that we don’t want our kids seeing until they’re old enough to process it. However, where they lose me is the complete lack of desire to know about the world. I wonder how much of that is truly their own thinking, or how much of it is just them hearing the parents discount modern culture over and over again. When you’re a child you’re easily influenced by your parents, whereas my Mom embraced modern culture and even incorporated it into or home school lessons at times, these kids have parents who are constantly ragging on anything that modern culture has to offer. “The music is junk”, to paraphrase Barry Plath, well, if I heard my Mom or Dad say that I wouldn’t really want to listen to modern day music either.
It’s not just the music, they seem to have a really haughty view of the outside world, thinking that today’s ‘culture’ couldn’t possibly have anything good to offer and that entertainment should be confined to classical novels and old movies and anything that doesn’t cause children to question certain morals.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Is it really a sin to question?
This is just a personal opinion and I’m speaking as from a generalized point of view rather than calling out the Plaths directly, it seems that people that hold these views in raising children seem to, at best, forget that learning to question what we believe in is all a part of life. At worst, it seems like really lazy parenting because you can’t question what you don’t know about, am I right? Let’s pretend that the Plaths are on the better end of that spectrum and say that they’ve simply forgotten that questioning is all a part of life, all in the name of… what, exactly? God? Christianity? I worry for the Plath kids because I don’t think they’re given much room to grow or change intellectually and that may not be such a good thing. Besides, if God didn’t welcome questioners, where on earth would the Apostle Paul, or the infamous doubting Thomas be? Food for thought.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Innocence above all
Like a lot of homeschooling families, the Plaths have their children’s best interest at heart, I’m sure. But I think they’re going about this the wrong way. I think in the name of keeping their children “innocent”, they’re also keeping them pretty ignorant as well and that may be fine for when you’re small, but when you get older and get out into the world then their influence may not hold as fast and as true as they seem to want it to. 21 year old pretty ignorant is already breaking tradition by eating sugar and drinking alcohol and watching television. Oh, God, not the idiot box! Haha sorry, just using as a term I heard the homeschooling Moms use back in my day. There’s also a bit of judgement when it comes to these things in the homeschooling community.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: “No, you’ll have a sugar crash!”
I’m just going to relate one of my own tales of homeschooling here. When I was around 12 my Mom had brought some kind of sugary snack for me to eat during my standardized test break. When I dug it out of my bag during the breaktime, the exam proctor, a homeschool Mom herself, yelled at me not to eat it because I would have a sugar crash during the test afterward and possibly fail the test. My Mom was sitting right there and was shocked out of her gourd, she later admitted that she did indeed feel that the exam proctor overstepped her boundaries and freaked out for no reason but felt she couldn’t say anything in the name of respecting the examiner’s authority. There’s a lot of this judgmental crap that goes on in various homeschool troops, especially religious ones. To her credit, the examiner apologized later but initially I was just in shock that she would overstep like that.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Is Mama Plath getting some heat?
If the judgmental thing still holds true like it did when I was in home school, then, Mama Plath may be taking some heat from other home school Moms. You would think that not being in a school would eliminate all need of ‘Mom-petition’ from the equation but it doesn’t. Instead these housewives just invent even weirder ways to compete using their children. At the meets, the Moms would brag about who memorized the most bible verses this week, or how their daughter was making a sourdough starter in the freezer, or how their son build a shed – again, all brag-worthy things, but all from a decidedly different time. If Mama Plath is in one of those troops it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if she’s getting heat based on her embracing of certain ‘secular’ things, for instance letting a TLC film crew come film her children. Don’t worry Mama Plath, the rest of us think you’re okay. Stay tuned!!!
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