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, 23, took to her Instagram stories to tell her fans how she spends a bit of time every day teaching Gideon basics such as the alphabet and colors.

Counting On's Joy-Anna Duggar explained how she homeschooled her son Gideon
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Counting On's Joy-Anna Duggar explained how she homeschooled her son GideonCredit: Instagram

She filmed herself in their living room as she spelled out her reasons for her homeschooling methods.

"I normally try and do like five minutes a day, doesn't always happen but just like to get the numbers, the letters, the colors kind of ingrained in his head," she explained.

"And I feel consistency works better than [studying] over long periods of time, every so often."

She added, while holding up a workbook: "So I've got this fun schoolbook that I found for him... so anyone that's our morning."

Joy-Anna then shared an adorable video of her and Gideon singing the ABCs together.

But fans on Reddit were not impressed by the adorable display and instead slammed the young mom for only doing five minutes of teaching with her son.

"What do you expect from Joy?" wrote one fan on Reddit.

It comes just days after fans were busy criticizing her for allowing Gideon to ride an ATV without his shoes on, as fans urged the former reality star to consider his "safety."

In the snap, Gideon had a blue helmet on as he rode the ATV over the grassy field. 

Joy-Anna's son had a huge smile on his face as he had his palms on the handlebar grips.

He appeared to have a shoe missing as his barefoot was placed on the footrest.  

The  alum wrote: "New toys, new adventures."

Joy-Anna's Duggar family has been embroiled in controversy after her brother Josh Duggar is believed to have been placed on the sex offender registry after “molesting his sisters” years before his child pornography arrest, court papers claim.

, 33, was  in April. 

The arrest came years after Touch Weekly uncovered a 33-page Arkansas police report in 2015 claiming Jim Bob confessed to local authorities that his  while they were asleep in the Duggar family home back in 2006.

His younger sisters , 29, and , 28, came forward as two of the victims in an interview with , where they insisted they had .

In May 2017, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, 27, and Joy-Anna, 23, sued the City of Springdale, Bauer, who owns In Touch, and other Defendants for invasion of privacy and more, claiming releasing the records caused "extreme mental anguish and emotional distress."

The Sun can exclusively reveal the Springdale Defendants served the Department of Human Services with a subpoena on August 2, 2021.

Josh pleaded not guilty to the two child pornography counts. 

The trial has been  and has the potential to last until December 3. 

As The Sun previously reported, Josh’s legal team .

The former  star is currently on home confinement until his trial and is living with third party custodians LaCount and Maria Reber, who are longtime friends of Jim Bob and Michelle. 

Josh is  with the Reber family. 

The Arkansas judge on the case .

Josh’s wife Anna, who is pregnant with their seventh child and due in the fall, is  and has visited him with their children. 

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Josh has  with Anna present.

The family’s reality show , which Josh has not appeared on, was .

She told fans she spent five minutes a day teaching him basics
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She told fans she spent five minutes a day teaching him basicsCredit: Instagram
Joy-Anna then shared a video of Gideon doing his ABCs
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Joy-Anna then shared a video of Gideon doing his ABCsCredit: Instagram
The reality star is also mom to Evy
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The reality star is also mom to EvyCredit: Instagram/Joy-Anna Duggar
Joy-Anna Duggar gives daughter Evelyn kittens for her first birthday

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