Parents across the world are up against the unprecedented task of having to home school their children because of coronavirus restrictions.
It’s been a challenge for a lot of parents, especially those who haven’t learned in a classroom in decades.
Thankfully, there are moms like Tiffany Jenkins who can be real and help us find some humor in difficult situations.
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Jenkins is a hilarious and huge internet star, speaker, and author. Her blog Juggling the Jenkins has millions of fans on the internet, 4.7 million on Facebook alone, who follow her for her comedic and inspirational content she shares her experiences with being a mom, a former addict, and someone who has anxiety.
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One of her latest viral videos was on her disdain for “sight words.”
A subject she had to teach her kindergartener during quarantine.
And it wasn’t going super well.
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“I’m not trying to be dramatic,” Jenkins’ video starts. “But if sight words had a face, I would punch it.”
Seems like Jenkins isn’t the only one who thinks so.
“Everyone who watched it said it was super relatable and they were going through the same thing,” Jenkins told Good Morning America.
Sight words can be tricky for children and, now, homeschooling parents alike.
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“Sight words are words, like come, does, or who, that don’t follow the rules of spelling or the six syllable types. These words have to be memorized because decoding them is really difficult,” We Are Teachers.com says.
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“Students are taught to memorize sight words as a whole, by sight, so that they can recognize them immediately (within three seconds) and read them without having to use decoding skills.”
A “sight word” list was developed by Dr. Edward Dolch in the 1930s and 40s which consists of more than 200 “service words” and 95 “high-frequency nouns” for children in Pre-K through third grade. About 50 percent of the words are found in books for adults while 80 percent of them are found in typical children’s books at the time.
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In her video, Jenkins has beef with the word “know.”
“Whose idea was this word?,” she demands to know.
Jenkins had to help her child learn how to spell the word by sounding it out. The tricky part comes in when she has to explain that the “K” and “W” are silent.
“Do you know what I mean?,” she says pretending to explain this to her children. “Me either.”
Then there’s the word “one.”
“Kids are just supposed to know that the ‘O’ sounds like a ‘W’? I don’t think so. I sound like a lunatic trying to explain these words to my kids.”
One of her explanations was that the person who came up with the word “two” just wanted to add a little extra pizazz and added a “W” in there.
“Right in the middle. For no reason, you know what I mean?” she pretends to tell her kids. “Just pretend like it’s not there.”
Then there is “read” which she explains is pronounced two different ways. While Jenkins, of course, knows the meaning and spelling of all these words, she never really thought about why the rules are the way they are and how she would even attempt to explain them to a child.
“For the first time I’m actually paying attention to these words,” Jenkins told Good Morning America.
“He’s sounding them out and spelling them exactly how they sound and I find myself being like, ‘I mean technically you’re not wrong, that’s exactly how it sounds, but no, there’s a random ‘K’ in there for no reason.'”
She says she never realized how “weird the English language was” until she had to teach it to a kindergartener.
“Shout out to all the teachers because I can’t friggin’ do this,” Jenkins desperately says before ending her video.
Looks like lots of other parents feel the same.
“Omg me today with my preschooler who btw is supposed to k.n.o.w how to write freaking sentences, capitalize them and put a period at the end. Fml,” wrote one Facebook fan.
Good luck to all the homeschooling parents and thanks to all the teachers out there! Check out Jenkins’ video below and see if you can reltate.
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