I want to give a snippet of a few hour block of activity by my three youngest kiddos today. They had friends, also homeschooled, stop by for a couple hours early in the day. They spent the whole time outside hanging out and taking videos with Ben’s little camera.
Once their friends left my nuggets got on the computer, supervised, and combined the videos into a sequence to make their own “movie”. Once they were done they went around planning out how to make their own Halloween costumes from things around the house. They then asked to ride their bikes so they could literally map out the neighborhood as a part of a big plan to split into two groups with friends when Trick or Treating and communicate with Walkie Talkies. They finished it off with swimming and a nerf gun/pillow fight.
This was all 100% their own idea. This was all after finishing their entire school load for the day in a few efficient, focused hours. Think of the creativity they used. Think of how differently most of us picture a “school day” (reality, not the Disney Movie version where everyone breaks into song every 5 minutes for no reason). Most importantly… this was all done together as brothers and little sister. This was all done with their loving parent by their side. I won’t use this blog to constantly promote homeschooling, even thought it is tempting. I just want to be a voice for an option not often considered in our society and to share the heart that me, Christina’s and so many others we know have.
Please let us know if you ever have any questions at all on this topic or any other. Happy parenting. : )