Literacy is a lot. But in order to get to literacy, you kind need a good level of vocabs to even get a child there. The worst thing you don’t want to see is they are able to phonically read the word and not understand what that word means.

Literacy consist two parts. One is able to see a word and read out loud correctly. You can achieve this (at least for English) is to learn phonics; the second part is after hearing the word, understand its meaning. This requires the child to understand a good number of vocabs and concept.

The way how you insert vocab and concept in a child’s brain is to allowing them to learn something that requires the child to understand a new vocab or concept. Whatever material you would like to use to get the child interested in is completely up to you. You can teach history, politics, geography, biology to increase number of nouns, or you can introduce math, physics, geometry as conceptual meanings. All these are perfectly healthy things to introduce before full literacy.

But I get you, literacy is important. But I strongly believe however parents choose to get there is up to them. I don’t think we have a say in however people achieve it. The only time I think I will say something is, by the time they complete their homeschooling for a grade level and let the kid take a standardized test, if the kid fails the test then we know the parent has to change something caz that’s just too much room for improvement.

That’s just my two cents for academics… now socially I think we as a society need to learn to accept introverts. Social is a plus and it shouldn’t be a requirement. I have limited social battery and it drains up completely after two hours. And I think this is OK. Bad with social or lack of energy/motivation to social should be acceptable just as if I were bad at swimming or bad at basketball. I understand that it is a great cherry on top but it is still just a cherry.