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Growing up, all three kids completed homework at the kitchen table under Dad's watchful eye. When you thought you were done, Dad reviewed it. If he found something wrong he didn't tell you what was wrong. He just handed it back and said "Fix it." If there was no homework, Dad made some up. We also had to read a non-fiction book a week, and a fiction book a month What we read was a big part of dinner table conversation.

When my daughter was in school a teacher had the nerve to tell me to stop having my daughter do multiplication tables at home. The teacher never made the mistake again of telling me how to teach my daughter anything.
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Maj John Bell - Absolutely. My upbringing was similar except it was Mom who checked everything. Dad was gone 3 weeks out of every month.

When our middle daughter went back to public schools in the 10th grade the school discovered she was already college level and forced her to sit through every "required" class as they would not take the state authorized home schooling curriculum.
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Dad retired from the Navy after 30 years, when I was 6 or 7. He said that the US government forced him to retire and spend time parenting me, because I was a much bigger threat to America than communism.
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