Edward Owen Seewald is one month old, and the Seewalds are adjusting to life with six children. Jessa just uploaded a 25-minute video to YouTube. In it, she gives updates on her family, highlights some of her favorite homeschool resources, shares the books she is currently reading, and chats about various other topics.
I feel sorry for her. She has never had one minute to experience who she is herself, by herself. She went instantly from being one of a bunch of kids to a wife to a mother. Saddest part is that she seems to realize what freedom she missed and was never given a chance to have. Whether she realizes it or not, she seems short-tempered or frustrated in all of her videos. She is going through the motions she was expected to go through, but she is not showing true happiness. Being surrounded by more and more kids isn't taking the place of what she's longing for. She is compensating. More videos are only more evidence of this. Jessa - put down the camera, take away the stress of trying to impress the public, make your husband help more, or better yet, take a vacation by yourself.
ReplyDeleteJessa communicates well. She is so smart and wise.
ReplyDeleteYou have a nursing baby latched onto you day and night, you have a toddler hanging onto your leg, you have a preschooler or two, and then a few school age children on top. How in the world do you provide a proper education at home? You give the older ones workbooks and turn them loose to "teach" themselves? They are not getting the social and educational interaction they would get at a public or private school classroom. They are not getting professional teaching and sharing of ideas. They are not being challenged. I don't understand how anyone who claims to love children would find such a home system ideal for learning. Is Jessa repeating what she and her siblings went through, with not a one of them having a decent education? Is that "good enough" for her? If so, I fear for the future.
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