i have so many more private notes on these topics. i don't know, genuinely, if I'm taking the right approach, or being at all appropriate. I'd like to be a good stepfather though. I hope one day they see me as a real father, if not their true one. We don't home-school - I wish we did. I help them with their homework also, in Maths, English, and Science. History is a tricky topic, and thus I abstain. I had used to go for long walks with my own Father, before his illness, and his move back to Ireland, and we discussed so very much, from philosophy and literature, to astrophysics, to art and culture, to software engineering, to religion - and a lot of frivolous life in-between. it was certainly novel. We liked nature. He was very patient with me, in hindsight. I think he still is. I'm still a bit miffed that he wouldn't tell me all of what he did back in the day, but that's an Official Secrets Act thing, ha ha (well... grr, but a mild "ha ha").
I hope to be as patient also. This is just 4 short pieces I gathered together as one. I love my family. I'm probably a moron in some respects for even attempting this, but I hope, being my own darn family, that I have a certain leeway to attempt it at all.
It's no secret that I don't like the modern state school teaching paradigm. I'm not a subversive, but still... a quiet amateur dissident, perhaps.
Anyhow... see what you think. As stated, I'm sure I'm utterly wrong in places, but wherever so, it would good to know why, via reasoned - reasonable - argument or rebuttal. Please be as gentle as seems fit, if such is the case. I fecking hate online conflict. In real life I'm a little grumpier. I resent that.
I'd just like to be... as a totally infertile from birth, straight male adult, who otherwise will never have children of his own, and cannot afford to correct that moderate irritation...
Useful.
