We home-schooled our girls. Our approach was to make sure the first three hours was devoted to the "boring" stuff. The rest of the day was devoted to their passion(s), and those changed over time. I now have an chef, and RN. The little one just completed her AS at community college, while getting her pilot certificates.
Congratulations! It's great to hear outcomes like that, especially for those of us more toward the beginning our homeschool experience. And we do something similar regarding the "boring" stuff.
My pleasure! If this post gets some traction I might have more to say about homeschooling. By the way, I've been really digging your substack lately. You're in the zone!
There are plenty of things that might help, including exploring apps and YouTubers that the kiddos might like. Maybe find a handful and then let them choose one or two. I'm still amazed at how much is out there. For a while we were all over "superhero science." There are various YouTubers who walk through the physics involved with various superpowers. A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down!
We home-schooled our girls. Our approach was to make sure the first three hours was devoted to the "boring" stuff. The rest of the day was devoted to their passion(s), and those changed over time. I now have an chef, and RN. The little one just completed her AS at community college, while getting her pilot certificates.
Congratulations! It's great to hear outcomes like that, especially for those of us more toward the beginning our homeschool experience. And we do something similar regarding the "boring" stuff.
Thanks for sharing this, Ted!
My pleasure! If this post gets some traction I might have more to say about homeschooling. By the way, I've been really digging your substack lately. You're in the zone!
This resonates with me. I don’t see that kind of passion for learning in our kids.
There are plenty of things that might help, including exploring apps and YouTubers that the kiddos might like. Maybe find a handful and then let them choose one or two. I'm still amazed at how much is out there. For a while we were all over "superhero science." There are various YouTubers who walk through the physics involved with various superpowers. A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down!
Need to do more of that! What are the subjects Colin is less interested in and how do you try and make them more interesting to him?
Well, I'd say math. I describe some of that above but will follow up via email with more.
I certainly can’t blame him for being more passionate about Roman history than equations!
Ha -- I know! The trick is to find the equations in Roman history.