Forget About The Orthodox Teaching Method, This Mum Lets Her Children Play Computer Games
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Forget About The Orthodox Teaching Method, This Mum Lets Her Children Play Computer Games

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by Aisya

Feb 1, 2017
at 9:00 AM

A 44-year-old mum, Katie Pybus against the norm by insisting all her three kids to not go to school to learn but rather stay at home playing consoles on cyberspace. For Katie, she believes that her kids do not have to go to school to learn the alphabet and sit an exam. They can gain knowledge by playing PlayStaion. This is something uncommon happened in our society and we choose school system to shape our young generation and earning a scroll is really important in our society. 

 

All her three kids never learnt the alphabet in classroom and will never sit an exam

Her kids named Sapphire,12, Etienne, 10 and Orin 7 get up when they feel like it and power up their Playstations to start their learning lesson every morning. Etienne wakes up as early as 5 o'clock in the morning followed by Orin at 8 am and Sapphire late at 10 am. They roughly spend seven hours a day at home rather than sitting in a classroom.

Katie, their mum thinks that her kids will do better in cyberspace than if she taught them to read, write and count like a normal kid. She believes that alphabet has got not much to do with learning to read.

 

"Schools are far too focused on testing and exams and I prefer my children to learn through play"

Katie's approach may astound most parents, especially those who has strong believe that education is everything and that will determine where you'll go for college and occupations later in the future. It might sound radical and solely depends on computer and games can be highly addictive to children. But Katie ignores all those negative comments and stick to her belief. 

" My children will look back and realise they've had a lovely, free childhood," Katie says that she haven't formally taught them English and Maths but they've learned lots about spelling and number manipulation through games. 

 

They have had to upgrade to a super strength broadband server 

They spend time on Minecraft, Clash of Clans, Sims, Pokemon Go and they have quite a number of gadgets as in two Playstation with 4 consoles, four PCs, five tablets and one Wii. Their father, Roger who works for an engineering firm have had to upgrade to a super strength broadband server to cope with the kids' workload.