WITH the nation’s schools closed, parents are half-heartedly educating their spawn at home. Here’s how to do it with the minimum of effort.
Plan and prepare
For actual teachers, this means creating lesson plans and resources. For you, it means hiding bottles of alcohol where you can subtly swig from them throughout the day. A bit of rum from the airing cupboard makes bedtime arrive so much faster.
Focus on experiential learning
Don’t get caught up in the idea that learning only takes place in textbooks. Allow your little geniuses to direct their own learning, whether that’s brutally fighting with their siblings, playing Fortnite all day or just being quiet anywhere other than where you are.
Everything is science
Washing up? Detergents and bacteria are science! Making you a cup of tea? The boiling point of water is science! Dicking about with the plug socket? Alternating current is definitely science, and a lesson they won’t forget in a hurry.
Make a modern curriculum
Any learning should be preparing young people for the modern world, which means one thing: Instagram. Teach your little darlings how to smile and regurgitate basic facts so your competitive parent friends don’t realise you’ve just been watching The Boss Baby for six hours.
Relationships and sex education
It’s never too early. Take this opportunity to start enlightening your little ones about the birds, bees and birth control, so they, unlike you, never have to spend their days trying to explain prime numbers to an ungrateful little bastard.
