OpenAI announced version three of its image generator, Dali. Artists can send images to OpenAI that they wish to exclude from the training models. A future version of Dali can then block results that look similar to the artist's image and style. Well, don't they have to train something to recognize whether the art is being created in that style? At which point aren't they training a model to do just that? Right. How would the model know to avoid your thing if it didn't know your thing implicitly know your thing so it could avoid making your thing? You're, I think you're totally right. I think that's probably true, but you know, that's where these, that's where the nuance comes in with this whole conversation. It's like, well, this, we have to look at it this like almost like a person. And I don't mean like in the AI sense. Oh, it's just like a person. I don't mean that. What I mean is for this thing to actively avoid this and apply these quote, unquote ethical standards, they have to know what they're being ethical for.


Item Number – SCP-366 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures – All SCP-366 specimens, regardless of stage, are to be stored in a Level 4 biological hazard freezing unit at Biological Research Site-66. Cryopreservation is to be achieved through freezing in liquid nitrogen at a constant temperature of negative 196 degrees Celsius to prevent activation. Due to the diminutive nature of SCP-366-OVA, these specimens are to be stored in a near vacuum Class 3 biosafety cabinet to avoid accidental dispersion, in addition to cryopreservation as outlined above. All specimens and infested hosts are only to be handled by authorized personnel wearing Level A hazmat suits with SCBA and all personnel involved in the handling of SCP-366 are to be scanned by MRI for possible infestation before entering and after exiting containment facilities. If an infestation is detected, specific procedures are to be followed depending on the sex of the host. Males are to be detained and subjected to a dual-inguinal orcheectomy by resident Level 3 or higher medical staff. All medical awful is to be disposed of according to the HazB-INF-142B protocol. A secondary scan for infestation is to be performed after recovery and quarantine to verify the success of the procedure and to rule out residual infestation. Females found to have suffered infestation are to be likewise detained and placed in quarantine under medical observation 24 hours per day until such time as an ABE-366 event occurs. Should signs of an imminent ABE-366 event be detected, the host is to be sedated using benzodiazepines, the dosage to be determined by the resident head of medical staff. The host's quarantine cell is then to be evacuated of all personnel. Due to the dangers of hearing loss, immediate containment of SCP-366 specimens exiting the host's body is essential. Most event, both the host and any affected personnel are to be screened for continued infestation and treated accordingly. If no such infestation is detected and the host survived, Class A amnestics may be administered and the host need no longer be detained. No special social reintegration procedures apply. As locations where SCP-366-OVA are deposited shift if sealed off permanently, containment of these areas focuses on detection, quarantine of hosts, and containment of specimens. If celestial events known to trigger the appearance of SCP-366-OVA can be foreseen, sites are to be closed down temporarily. If need be, OVA may be harvested for research. In all other situations, OVA are to be allowed to expire before sites are declared open again. If infestation is detected outside of Foundation control, hosts are to be detained and subjected to the stipulations above. The procedures outlined above are then to be applied to locations linked to these cases. Critical infestations occurring outside of the Foundation's control warrant a full quarantine of all individuals in contact with the deceased. If necessary, temporary research and detainment sites are to be established around large scale hot zones. Description SCP-366 refers to a human endoparasite of unknown, possibly extraterrestrial origin that starts its life cycle in an ovum stage. In male hosts, OVA can develop into a larval stage. In female hosts, larval stage specimens may transition to the adult stage. OVA introduced to male hosts and OVA introduced to female hosts live at most three hours before expiring, due to a lack of the hormones necessary for their further development. Attempts to cultivate infestations in other organisms have not yet yielded any results, with SCP-366 specimens of any stage expiring as expected when outside a human host. OVA measure approximately one micrometer in diameter and have never been recovered unfertilized. One encountered outside of a host, OVA are dormant, with the embryo and developmental stasis. Larva measure between 0.1 and 0.2 mm, and display physical characteristics of the larva of Oclarotatus cantato. Despite this resemblance, research has indicated no DNA matches with that species, nor any of its family. Adult SCP-366 specimens resemble the larva of Tenebrio Molitor, though they are significantly larger, 9.3 cm to 14.8 cm. Again, this resemblance is superficial only. Upon introduction of SCP-366 OVA to a male host via inhalation or ingestion, specimens travel through the body to settle in the testes. An ovum-stage specimen monitors its host's testosterone levels for between 27 to 32 days. After that period of time, any significant increase in testosterone over the usual levels will trigger a transition to larval stage. SCP-366 larva lie dormant in the testes, waiting to be transmitted to a female host. Symptoms that male hosts may display at this time include muscle pains, fevers, and a small amount of blood in the host's urine. Larva developed in male hosts are transmitted to female hosts through ejaculation. If ejaculation does not occur, larval stage specimens will remain in the host's system indefinitely, waiting to be transferred to a female host. Lifespan has not as of yet been established for these larvae. SCP-366 infestation in female hosts occurs after unprotected copulation with infested males. Larva transmitted in this manner attached to the lining of the uterus and feed on the host's output of 17-beta estradiol to grow to their adult form. An infestation with adult specimens produces symptoms resembling pregnancy, which may include nausea, a swelling of the abdominal area, light blood loss in stool or vaginal fluids, abdominal cramps. During this gestation period, the SCP-366 specimens present in the uterus will display orophagous behavior with the larger and stronger specimens killing and assimilating weaker ones. This process continues until only one specimen survives. After three to six weeks, the remaining adult specimen leaves the host in an ABE-366 event. Specimens birthed in this manner will take flight through unknown means and attempt to gain access to the open sky. If successful, specimens will ascend towards the human system at an average rate of 114 km an hour. Research using tracking devices attached to birthed specimens has yielded little result, with specimens lost in the vicinity of... Specimens prevented from reaching the open sky will produce a sustained high-pitched sound at approximately 101 dB. An infestation is designated critical if abnormally elevated levels of 17-beta estradiol in males cause larval stage specimens to develop into adult stage prematurely. These cases are invariably fatal to the host, as large numbers of immature adult stage specimens leave the host's body in an abrupt mass exodus. There was only one recorded critical infestation amongst infested males in Foundation custody. SCP-366 ovum stage specimens can be found exclusively in the state of Massachusetts, always at exposed locations known locally for adolescent sexual activity. Even celestial events, such as meteor showers, may trigger the descent of SCP-366 ova. The amount of ova deposited during these events ranges from approximately 1.000 to 10.000, depending on the level of activity at the location. The exact origin of the ova remains untraceable at this point. Addendum 366A1 That was so beautiful, man. Just me, Lorraine, the night sky, and all those falling stars. Host 366-28289F Deceased Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-365, Pool Noodle, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Will Nikki Haley become the first Indian president of the United States? And if she does, does that make her the first Asian president too? Yeah, we got to talk about it. This is going viral right now. I'm sure it's only going to go more and more viral as you know, election 2024 ramps up Andrew. Nikki Haley, a lot of people don't know. Both her parents are from India and she identifies as Indian, even though there's some controversy surrounding that. So we got to talk about the story of Nikki Haley, birth name Nimratha Rondawa. We got to talk about Bobby Jindal, birth name Piyush Jindal. And what does it all mean to be assimilating to a region, to not be assimilating to a region? And how do you identify in this crazy political sphere in 2023? So make sure you like, subscribe, and turn on your notifications. And we got to get into it. All right. First off, let's talk about Nikki Haley because she's trending in the news right now. She was a former governor of South Carolina. She was the first woman ever elected in that position. So shout out to her. She is running as a Republican. We're not going to get into politics and policies, guys. We are neither left or right. We're just going to talk about our Asian-ness right now. So does she identify as Indian is the first question? All right. She identifies as Indian. But I want to say she primarily uses the word minority, but she does not call herself Asian. Yes. I don't think she's ever called herself Asian. Correct us if we're wrong that she has. But that's what I found in my research. And I think that it is possibly because, like I said, I do not know, Andrew. I just done some research. I, from what I've seen, Indian Aryans or Aryan Indo people, which are primarily like, I guess people who are mixed with Persian or British in North India do not identify as Asian. But they could be, you know what I mean? Because I guess visually they would look either like half white or half Dravidian or they would be more looking like Middle Eastern or Greek or Sicilian. She kind of actually looks like Andrew Harmon, this actress mixed with John Kerry. So yeah. Like I'm just saying she got the job. She has the John Kerry change over on a huge Tim Grover fan, but he probably doesn't identify as Asian either because they're from this region, Andrew, where there's a lot of people who are either Anglo Indian, Aryan Indian or Parsi Indian, which is what Freddie Mercury was. And a lot of people didn't know that he was Indian either, because I guess like that whole region is very complex and mixed up over time in both ancient and modern ways. Right. So you're just saying that part of India essentially is considered more white. Right. They've been mixed with Aryan bloodlines over many, many, many generations as well as potentially very recently. Yeah. I mean, if you made me say, I think the Indians who definitely want to identify as Asian and be included in the Asian American narrative usually are, I don't want to say only, but usually South Indian. Right. You know. And speaking of South Indian Andrew, Kamala Harris is half South Indian. Yeah. However, guys, Nikki Haley on paper, I mean, based on her family, is more Indian than even Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris is only half Indian, although her mother is from South India. I believe that Kamala Harris is half Hindu. Bobby Jindal was was full Hindu, converted to Catholicism, actually became Opus Dei, which is like almost like the Navy Seals, secretive Catholicism. I believe that Kamala Harris was raised Protestant or like Baptist, which is more on the black side, the black Jamaican side. And Nikki Haley converted to Protestant Christianity. Minus Asian points on that. Right.  And just so you know that Nikki really does identify as Indian, she said, I'm the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari.  She said it. She said she was brown just saying, I can't take that away from her. She said it. I'm not the judge of it. I'm not even India. And I have a lot of progressive Indian American friends, Andrew, that really roast Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley for adopting, you know, not to not going with her name in Ratha Rondawa. However, Andrew, I will say that this to be fair, Mindy Kaling and Cal Penn, who are both Indian American entertainers, also changed their names to be Anglicized to fit in the Hollywood as well. So it's not just people who are trying to be governors of like super red states that are adapting to like local Anglo cultural norms. I mean, to be honest, a lot of people in entertainment, whether it's Jennifer Aniston or John Stuart, changed their names to hide their background because they felt like that maybe I might hold them back or color how people view them. John Stuart's last name is Liebowitz, right? Yeah. And then Jennifer Aniston has like this long Greek name, you know, it's not Aniston. So I will say this though, to defend again against Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal has a governor's portrait where he has essentially had himself painted white, like super white. Like he looks like Pete Buttigieg in this. And then I would say that Nikki Haley has a huge controversy. Well, the controversy is back in 2001, it showed that she marked down for her voter registration that she was white. She said she was white. Is it because she was just like, well, in India, I'm considered like an Aryan Indian because actually she actually looks a lot like this Sicilian woman who became an Indian politician by marrying an Indian guy and had a son who's a politician. And she like always wears a sorry.  I mean, to be fair, Nikki's parents both look pretty Indian, but the way she turned out and the way she was born, she looks more white. So I don't know, it might be a genetics thing. As somebody who knows about 23 and me, Andrew, even amongst different siblings, sometimes that 25% or whatever, you know, European, it comes out differently in each kid because Kamala Harris has a sister who probably you would say looks Indian. But Kamala Harris herself looks white and black. You know what? Two questions really come to mind, David, that are important is one, how is the left, the Democrats going to react to this when Nikki Haley is running as a minority? Because you know how like, you know, being a minority and playing identity politics is very important right now because there's a lot of voters on both sides that are our colored people, right?  You got all the other minorities in our party.  And then the Democrats do that as well. Obviously well known for that. So I guess like, are they going to be like, Nikki, you're not more Indian than Kamala Harris. We got Kamala. But then she's going to be like, Kamala's only half Indian. Yeah. It might be the Jay Crowder designed to stop Jason Tatum. Oh my gosh. Because you got to get one swing man to stop another swing man. And then I got another question, David. What do you think Britain's saying right now? We have the real Indian candidate. We have Rishi Sunok. He has not changed his first name and he has not hid his Hindu background. Or do you think Canadians are like, oh yeah. Look at us. We got Jagmeet. Not like you Americans where you guys make them become like Anglos. We let our Indians stay Indian. And let's just get into some of the quick comments real quick.  But I'm telling you the internet comments come from everywhere. They are hilarious. Somebody said, what's going to happen is she's just going to become strong in the primary. DeSantis is going to become strong because DeSantis is more of a right right candidate. I guess Nikki Haley is considered middle right and they're going to combine. She's going to be as VP to finally defeat Trump. So a lot of the Trumpians got a lot of conspiracies. I don't know. It sounds somewhat logical to be honest. I'm not a political strategist, but that makes some sense. Somebody that's also defending the middle right said, well, if everybody's saying that she didn't care about being Indian and she became so Anglo to appeal to the Anglos in South Carolina, how come her opponents during her first run for governor always posted pictures of her and Asari and all this traditional clothes to seed fear in people's mind that she was really weird and foreign. So basically saying she did have to fight through some skepticism and racism, obviously along the way. Although maybe she had the white face. I don't know. It's 50-50. So she does.   Yeah. Okay. Other people were basically saying in the middle like, I'd really empathize with Nikki Haley because what if she just was super Indian and then she would lose and then we would never even know who she is and we wouldn't even be talking about her. It's a fair point, man. By the way, I got these comments from an Indian blog. That's why I did the accent.  Jindal, Nikki Haley, Ben Carson, Michael Steele, they have all been metamorphced into old white men to such an extent that on the days when they don't see the mirror, they forget that they do not look like an old white guy. They are just one in their soul. Yeah. And I think that this is what a lot of minorities say on the left about people who take very right, middle right or right, right positions. I mean, there's a whole spectrum of political opinions, right on both sides. I would say this, Anna, what do you think? I mean, is it just assimilation? Somebody was saying, you know, some people call Anna Mae Wong, who was the first Oriental or like East Asian actress in America, a sellout. But was she just doing the best she could to represent in a situation that was really like no win? Like there was no win. So they're just trying to get the best win they can. But people look at it in the past and they still see it as bad because they just took the best situation out of all bad options. Like being proud really wasn't an option. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I think it's going to depend on how much she tries to use it to her benefit. You know, if Nikki's going to be going around parading that she's a minority when she did mark down that she was white, but although that she does have an argument because her parents are Indian, I don't know. It's it's so tough. David, does it just come down number one, Andrew, to how you look? Does it just come down to how you look? Because I would say Bobby Jindal is almost more right, I believe, politically than Nikki Haley. But he has the Indian wife and he looks very Indian. So he's not even going to get the same opportunities to become president even though he ran in 2016 like Nikki Haley does. Because Nikki Haley still passes visually that emotional like you're part of the same tribe as me test. Yeah. I don't know. I guess it's an equation. I'm sure your looks, I think it makes up a significant amount. I'm not sure what, but. Because people have that visceral immediate reaction to the thing that doesn't look like them. I mean, I'd way rather vote for Nikki Haley than the Maratha Paratha of whatever her name is. Moving on to number two, Andrew, do political parties in 2023, and you mentioned this earlier, always need that they're like diversity check boxes now. Because like if they're running Kamala on the left, she's half Indian, half Jamaican. They got to run Nikki Haley on the right with DeSantis, right? That's just how it is. Is it like that Spider-Man meme where Kamala is pointing at Nikki being like, I'm more Indian than you? No, I'm more Indian than you. And Kamala's like, my mom's from South India. And then Nikki's like, both my parents are from India. Yeah, what? And then Kamala's like, maybe I look more Indian.  Obviously, I do not think that she's going to say that because that would just bring up a whole lot of. We're just joking. But yeah, it seems like a funny instance. And point number three, Andrew, because we did the video previously, what do you think this does to have discussions about like, what does it mean for our Asians Indian? Because we were saying earlier, it seems like a lot of the white passing Indians, they kind of more identify as minorities, but not Asian. Whereas I know a lot of my South Asian friends that are more like way down there that are more clearly, I guess, have a different look. They definitely identify as Asian. Yeah, I mean, I think it comes a lot to how you're raised. But yeah, I mean, maybe India split. I mean, to be honest, like, I don't think all Indians think the same. I think maybe the ones more from the North, they identify less as Asian, you know, and then the ones from the South. And I guess, like, technically, be even based off the flow of, like, I guess European bloodlines, there is some logical explanation for that. Yeah, but I mean, we have Bengali friends and Bangladesh is closer to Asia. It was once part of India. But now, I mean- The most out of part of Pakistan. Oh, yeah. And then all Bengali friends, they all consider themselves Asian for the most part, you know. So I guess, I don't know, man, you guys let us know in the comments down below. What do you think about all this? Is Nikki Haley Indian? Obviously, she is. We can't take that away from her. But would you call her Asian? How do you feel about that? What if she starts, what if she starts bringing up that she's Asian? I'm not saying that she is. But what if she hits the campaign trail and is like, I'm the first Asian candidate for the Republicans. And you know what, I was funny, Andrew. A lot of the people on the Republican side was like, what does it even matter what she is? Quit talking about it. It's like, oh, okay. Now you guys have a candidate that looks very ambiguous. That's on your side. You don't want to talk about it. But when Barack was there, everybody wants to bring it up because his middle name is Hussein. And was he called Barry? Is it called Barack? Anyway, guys, it gets real crazy. Let us know in the comments section below. Hop hop boys, identity talks. Not scared. Until next time, we out. Peace.


Y'all remember Thomas right good morning Thomas. Let's go class and thought he's cheeks. Why are you bullying me?  That's all I can do It's already laid out. I'm recording this butt naked. Don't get any ideas, but black Air Force energy I know I have a lot of explaining to do for this blog, but just look at this This is my carry-on bag, right?  Let's go pack up the car. Hey, how you doing? Good morning. This will take a sec. Hey, thank you so much. I appreciate it I don't get to see you too. You don't mind if I film do you? I'm making a video Awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah, I can grab this one. Oh, thank you. You want to say hi? Good morning. Oh, wow, it's getting pretty out. Let's go. Thank you so much I have so many bag I Literally have my whole iMac and like half of my setup in here. Okay, finally settled. Welcome to uh, I just spilled Okay, good start Matt. Welcome to Delta Sky Club my favorite place ever This is the perk of flying Delta a lot. I continue to break my record for getting to the airport in record time I got here at 6 32 and I got inside 6 39 So seven minutes to get from outside the car to right in here As you can tell my voice completely lost because I bought so many videos yesterday before this trip. All right I'm gonna stop talking. Let me get back to What we're doing right now. So I'm trying to keep my voice down. There's a ton of people in here It's like a library. It's really quiet to all adults. So yeah, I guess I'm technically an adult at this point Right. There's not feel I go so like a month and a half ago I thought to myself, what if I just moved to Hawaii for 45 nights kind of sounded stupid at first But one of the cool things about being like a sports youtuber doing Madden and stuff is I kind of have a season, you know So football season going up in like August September October November December January I got to be either in Michigan or California, Arizona Whatever working like the whole time but then it gets to like made you in July and a God bless you guys for Watching even in May June July, but honestly like no who cares. It's May June July. Nobody cares about Madden Nobody cares about football. So I'll still put out bangers, but it's just less relevant. So I was like if there's ever a time that I could just So there's ever a time it just pack up and go to Hawaii for 45 nights, it would be pretty much May June So here's a game plan. I have an Airbnb in Hawaii 45 nights. It's awesome I'm so excited to be there. So we're gonna make a little scuffed setup to make videos out of I've bulked a lot of videos. I did some really cool series you guys are gonna see I'll still make videos while I'm there.  I put my whole iMac pro in one of the suitcases And in the other in my carry on I have my Xbox series X. So that's really all I need. I got my iMac I'm a series X. I'll get lighting while I'm there. I might just use a window like I'm doing right now This lighting is great. I have my videos ready to go go to the gym go to the beach Man, I can do anything else very extended. It's like an internship or a study abroad That's what it feels like. Yeah, so all in all it's gonna be amazing. I'm so happy I think I'm getting a couple of glares here in my silent library while I vlog. So goodbye All right, my flight is boarding. Cheers. This is my moses for the boys And just put me in an elk already. Oh my god, yo, if I ever do story time videos Me and uh destroying did party with milk one day. So I don't really do story time videos But I just wanted to flex that okay. Let's go get on the plane. I'll see you there All right, we're out of here. Thank you. Thanks so much. Have a good day. Excuse me. You're fine See if I can go all the way through the airport just holding it like this Number one way to get over the fear of vlogging in public in my opinion Is just act like you're talking on the phone Dude, people will like be in the gym just talking on the phone so loud Or they'll just walk through airports talking on the phone so loud and nobody bats an eye Well, if I just pretend that I'm talking on the phone to you guys, we'll be all set. Where's my gate? I need gate 22 LX is probably the best place to do this too.  Yes, sir. Thanks so much. Take care Let's go Hi, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Yeah, it is. You want me on? What's good? MMG Appreciate it What a guy Well, good start to the day. I'll say that puts me in a great mood I think I am seat one literally seat one There we go That's some awesome cameras. Is that one on there? Hi, how are you? Hi, how are you? Welcome aboard. Thank you About to land Last piece is final bag taken uber to get my rental car And then a rental car to the airbnb gets settled and we're close baby. We're close. Let's get it. Oh my god Finally, we're so close boys. We're so close. I just got in the rental car All I gotta do is get to the airbnb put all my stuff away.  I like I but literally everything here is just stunning I can't wait for you guys to see the view. Let me call this man's and see if I can check in right now Hey, paul. It's matt. I'm out here again. Um, I'm ready. I'm in my car. I think I'm about 15 minutes away Cool. Talk to you soon. This is what david dobrik does. What's up guys? It's me david dobrik I'm 31, but if there's any 18 year old girls who want to drink alcohol with me.  Let's go I need to stop. I'm gonna get pulled over in hawaii on my first day Let's get to the place. I'll see you boys in a bit. Peace. Okay. Just got to the place before I Before I shower in the nap. You need to see this because this place is nuts. Okay. Where do I even start, bro? Let's just start in the living room Nice gray walls. They got the lighting. The only question is where do I make my videos? I don't know where I'm gonna make videos. I might make them on the kitchen table Good lord. All right, and then here's here's the kicker right here.  This is going to be the best and fastest two months of my life Kind of depressed actually how quick this is gonna go. All right boys. Yeah, I gotta figure out where I'm gonna make videos I'll keep you guys looped in about that. I still gotta pop into best buy down here I kind of want to put in this room because I'm not gonna use this room This room is gonna be mine. It's kind of funny. There's two beds, you know, so, you know The memes I need to like shower and nap and unpack and do a lot of stuff. All right. Goodbye Okay, shower didn't change. I feel so much better. Everyone asked about the lsu tiger shirt, bro We'll clap went to lsu. So yeah, I bought the shirt because it's fire, but also We'll clap right there. So whatever Okay, here's the dilemma though right now This is the spare room. It's got a pretty awesome view a little bit of light right there Um, I'd love to put my desk right there, right? And then the backdrop is just like something pretty standard The thing I don't want to do is put my desk in the middle of the living room Like I want to work when I work and have fun when I have fun And when I walk in my kitchen and like all my shits right there, it just pisses me off So I don't know how movable while there's somebody died in Hawaii today. Listen to the amber lamps Somebody's in critical condition Somebody's dying. My neighbors didn't hate me. Okay. Um, I'm gonna try and gameplay in this. So enjoy this little time lapse Very solid honestly, this is so doable. I just gotta get my monitors up and we're good No way This is the price you pay for shipping your iMac. I guess look at this, bro. I just saw this. That's a bummer Look if it still operates, I'm not mad, but this is our potential shot for all videos I record here. So if we're making a video, it's gonna look something like this I'll get the job done put up in a low-hop pillow for you. Do you feel more at home now? Hey, she turned on let's go I need a mouse pad Okay, so I didn't bring a mouse pad. This will record my gameplay This is uh my face cam and where I edit and do photoshop So then right here I see a monitor So we got mouse pad on the checklist monitor. I gotta do some grocery shopping.  Look at this. I can make videos here all day every day. Look at this view Obviously, I could open this but right now it's not I could I could look at that Bro For breakfast today, we got a peanut butter banana a little bit of whole foods honey peanut butter It dummy schlaps and coffee. So yeah, this is my muck bang Hey, cheers boys.   So yeah, seriously boys. I love you. Thank you so much for uh Making my life pretty awesome. So here and there I think you're gonna see some videos in the hawaii set and some videos in the california set. It doesn't really matter It's all the same shit, right? Hopefully I can get you guys a couple more vlogs. I hope you enjoyed this one And I'll see in the next video. Thank you for watching us. I love you guys. Peace


Hey you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to share with you what I learned in my second year of homeschooling and what are my biggest regrets in this second year. So you guys um if any of you are new to my channel I'm Brittany, I am a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 10 four and two and you guys I just finished my second year of homeschooling. Um I'm so so so proud of myself and I'm proud of my daughter just for everything we have accomplished this year. I really feel like this year was the year I really learned a lot of um lessons and heart truths about homeschooling. Um I didn't want to end off this homeschooling year without bringing you guys this video because I feel like we can always take away all of the I guess the high notes from our homeschooling year but sometimes it's really hard for you to go back and really reflect on those areas that you really feel like you could have did a lot better in or areas that you really struggled and you have overcome and in today's video I'm going to share with you guys like all the things that I have struggled with and I really feel like I have overcame this year and hopefully some of these things that I have learned in my second year of homeschooling can help any of you guys whether this be your first uh your fifth you're like way ahead of me in this homeschooling journey hopefully uh you can just glean into some hope just knowing that uh none of us we have it all together we're still learning as we are going through uh this homeschooling journey so I have some notes right here in my phone and I'm going to go ahead you guys and talk about like my two biggest regrets of this homeschooling year my first one is a curriculum regret and my second one is just like my biggest regret of all so my first regret just in general is not believing in myself and I really feel like I have struggled a lot in homeschooling with confidence and just doubting my ability and my capability to be a good homeschooling parent for my kiddos I really have struggled with not feeling like I am enough or that I am adequate to teach and prep my kiddos for this lifelong journey that they are uh ahead in and I really feel like that's something that a lot of homeschooling parents face but they are not open about it enough and that was something that I really really struggled this homeschooling year uh just really having faith within myself and it's just so crazy how uh you build up your kiddos and you always talk about having confidence and believing in yourself and here I am I feel like I'm just like the biggest fraud because I'm not believing in myself in this homeschooling journey and I think that that's like my biggest regret is not snapping out of that sooner and to really just uh have faith in me um I made plenty of mistakes this year but I think my kiddos turned out okay um my biggest curriculum regret for this homeschooling year has to be I regret giving up on Singapore Dimensions as early as I did uh we did it for about the first month of our homeschooling journey and Singapore Dimensions was such a great math program it was hands-on it had like the maniputives it just was kind of teacher intensive and I really feel like I gave up on that curriculum a little bit too like sooner than later like if that's one of my regrets I really wish that I would have uh figured out a way for me to uh like maybe break up the Singapore Dimensions because my daughter's math skills were uh really really growing in using that curriculum and I really feel like I switched math curriculums on her really for me and not necessarily looking at the whole picture and that's like one of my biggest curriculum uh regrets now let's go on into some of the things that I learned I wrote a list of my phone because I don't want to forget any of these pinpoints so the first thing that I learned this homeschooling year is that slow and steady always wins the race um I feel like when you are on Instagram and even here on this platform on YouTube I really feel like you're only seeing the end results you're not seeing the day in the day out phonics lessons that these parents are doing with their kiddos to get them to read you're not seeing the day in day out sentences and uh the work that these parents are putting into teaching their kiddos how to write um I feel like on YouTube you're kind of just only seeing the end result and um I think that that was one thing and I definitely got caught up into especially when I started off my second year of homeschooling was just always watching all these Instagram bros and YouTube's and seeing like the end results but not realizing that those parents didn't get there overnight it was a slow and steady race for them to be able to uh see those milestones that their kiddos was like hitting and that's one thing that I definitely learned this year uh when I felt like I was behind in my homeschool I really wasn't and it's like who am I measuring you know against uh so I really learned that just every day are little teachable moments even if I didn't get through like everything that I wanted to accomplish that day we got through something and uh that pace over time it builds up and you know at the end of the year you realize you ended up accomplishing more than what you thought so slow and steady always wins the race the second thing that I learned and this was something that I learned very early on in my second year of homeschooling was that trendy and popular curriculum does not always equate to a better quality of education and I'm going to say that one more time the most trendiest and popular curriculum does not equate to a better education here on this platform I feel like you are just consumed especially as a homeschooling mom with just like curriculum pick and curriculum choice and the next new thing just over and over again and I feel like um as new homeschooling moms you run to that next best trendy curriculum because you feel like it's going to equate to a better and rich education for your kiddos and it's really not um at the end of the day a curriculum is a tool and it's really there to be used to help you navigate you know this journey I really feel like when curriculum authors like write these curriculum they're not writing them for us to use them check by check list by list I really feel like it's a guide and as a homeschooling parent especially a new one we hold on to that curriculum for dear life because we feel like that's like our life jacket this is our safety net and it really isn't it's just a guide it's just a map uh just like we lose our way even when we have a map and we have GPS but somehow we ended up finding our way we figured out a new route that's how we need to use curriculum and that's one thing that I learned fairly on um and hopefully I can like take that on with me um I was really feeling like kind of like self doubting myself because all of the like the new trendy curriculum was not working for my daughter my daughter she really thrived off of just like regular black and white plain jane curriculum just that's just what my daughter uh really wanted she just wanted it straight to the point um we use a lot of traditional curriculum here in my homeschool because my daughter started off her uh education journey in a public school system and I really feel like uh by her using just traditional homeschooling curriculum it was the style she was most familiar with and it was the style of learning that she flourished in the most I realized that my daughter wants to like get her lesson done and just be done with her day and then move on to doing creative things some people use their curriculum as their creative form of homeschooling while others use their curriculum to get their work done and then they have different enrichments and outlets that their kiddos like to do outside of their schoolwork and that's what I found that works best for my daughter another lesson that you guys that I learned this homeschooling year is that it's really okay to have curriculum fails I really feel like having curriculum fails does not you know mean anything it just means that you haven't found the right pick for your kiddo and I feel like here on this platform a lot of people don't uh really talk about their fails as much as we should I highlighted a video about all of my curriculum fails and you guys I was so embarrassed to post that video but I'm so happy I did because so many of you guys have mentioned that even as you guys are going into your 10th 11th year you still are having curriculum fails and um it just really gave me comfort in knowing that I wasn't the only one and I was so happy to be able to touch a lot of you guys out there so um curriculum fails does not equate to a failure in your homeschool okay the next thing that I wrote down you guys is that to always follow your gut and your heart you know what's best for your kiddo I feel like a lot of times I was wanting to do something or wanting to try a new thing but I was just scared to and I really feel like when I let go and I followed my gut especially for like natural learning for my daughter was really when I really felt free my daughter you guys she really enjoys like creative writing and she really enjoys having her time uh working on her iPad on uh Procreate where she likes to illustrate all of the uh creative writing pieces that she was writing and sometimes I was telling Brie like no Brie we have to get to our school work no and I was really making her creative writing not be a part of our homeschool when in actuality it is she's learning she's writing she's illustrating she's drawing uh she's learning different perspectives when she is uh doing that uh creative writing is a part of our homeschool and I'm so happy that I let go and if she was taken a little bit longer on that I wasn't worried about if we finished that history or that science lesson in the afternoon we will get back to those things and I'm so happy that I just let go and I allowed that to really be a part of our homeschool another thing is that taking as many breaks as you need in your homeschooling day I really felt like at the beginning of the year after we completed each subject I was telling Brie oh come on Brie let's get to the next subject let's get to the next subject and I was getting like a lot of kickback from my daughter and when I wasn't realized and like what am I rushing for you know I need to slow my behind down so really just allow my daughter to have at least like a 10 to 15 minute break per hour we worked on school it really just allowed our day to flow a lot better and uh she did a lot better within like the different uh subjects that we were doing just being able to have that break and I don't know why I wasn't giving her those breaks to begin with in the beginning of our school year so from now like my rule is for every hour of work she gets 15 minute break and we take a long lunch break before we come back and do like read alouds and history so I really like giving her those breaks and they are very useful even though she's upper elementary she still needs those breaks and I really feel like as she enters into middle and high school I'm still going to give her those breaks and that freedom I mean that's what homeschooling is for um another thing is that there is a power in simply reading good literature um just on those rough days that I was having within my homeschool you guys picking up a good book I felt successful in our homeschooling day um and I really us I really slept on the power of just reading and this homeschooling year um I really have incorporated like a lot of literature in our homeschooling year I'm really leaning towards like a literature-based learning just overall for my daughter especially because I'm kind of seeing the path in what she wants to go in her life and uh reading is just one of them and I definitely know a literature-based study would not only work for her but for me as well because I love books too now so um just the power of reading it's just amazing how many like rapid trials you can go on by just reading one simple book another thing that I learned this second year of homeschooling is that you guys I love unit studies I love spending that specific time focusing on one thing a lot of our sciences that we did this year were unit study base where we did like the human body for one unit and we did um what else did we do we did uh animals we sat on animals for a while this year and I'm so happy that we did because my daughter learned so much about animals so just sitting on those different science and history topics just even if it's just for like a week or two six weeks I really love that unit base approach when it comes to learning because your kiddos can really learn a lot uh in those times that you are focusing on that specific thing and I found that I love it as well and um the last thing that I learned in my homeschooling journey is that every new interest that your kiddo has should not equate to a unit study I know there's like a plethora of unit studies and uh just things online for every topic and every interest that your kiddo might have but that does not necessarily mean it needs to equate to you doing a full blown out unit study sometimes it's just as simple as going to a library checking out some books that they're interested in and whenever they're ready to close that chapter of that new interest or topic just to let it go uh and exploring nature with the children uh we were doing our butterfly week and I went to a library you guys and I checked out all like these books on butterflies and we had our caterpillars and we watched them turn into butterflies it was such a beautiful process and I really thought that my daughter was going to sit on butterflies for longer but you guys for that week that we studied butterflies after that she was done and I'm really happy that um I just allowed her to sit in that topic of interest just for that time period and kind of just like to move on and not necessarily make a unit study out of every interest so you guys like these are all the things that I learned within my second year of homeschooling I really feel like uh I've learned a lot and hopefully I can take all this knowledge that I gained this second year and really bring it on into my third year of homeschooling I'm really purpose purposefully like making this video so I can personally look back at it when I feel like I'm making these mistakes I really uh want to go into my third year of homeschooling intentional and I really want to just like let go and I really want to be confident in myself and I really want to know that I can do this thing and that um I have the best interest for my kiddos and I'm going to make mistakes but that's really uh like okay so you guys thank you so much for watching today's video I hope you enjoy and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye