Teaching Kids at Home: Tips From Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik
The actress and neuroscience Ph.D. has home-schooled her children for years.
Mayim Bialik—child star of ’90s show Blossom, Amy Farrah Fowler on nine seasons of The Big Bang Theory, 2007 Ph.D. in neuroscience—is also a vocal advocate of home schooling, garnering millions of views for her YouTube videos on education and parenting. For Bialik, that home-schooling expertise may be the most important line on her résumé. We asked her to share what she’s learned teaching her 11- and 14-year-old sons.
My now ex-husband and I noticed that home-schooled kids had a composed and interesting way about them, and that they were comfortable around adults and around their parents. That’s what interested us—the kind of relationships that we could build with our children.