About our unschooling.
We talk about everything; explain things we do and why things are. Also, I don't usually give "the short answer" to My girls, I give them the whole story. When they no longer appear to be interested, I stop. Sometimes they ask me to continue, sometimes we're done with that topic.
My girls each have their own interests. Kali especially loves history. She likes Tudor/Elizabethan history best. She has sat through BBC shows on that period that would bore most adults to death, yet she would beg to watch the next one soon as the last was over.
Lily loves cooking and cooking shows. She could watch them all day, (and did when we had cable). And right now, she's really into pirates.
They both are learning Spanish, (I'm learning French), they play learning games on the computer, we watch movies and talk about them, we love historically based movies like The 13th Warrior. They read with and to me. They've helped Alan and me with engine work. They can steer the boat. ?I'm working on a script for a no-budget movie and they'll help with that. We go to a poetry night every Friday. They also enjoy workbooks in all different subjects.
So, all in all, we hang out or go out to do things, and we talk alot... About anything and everything. And if we don't know, we look it up!
Regina
My girls each have their own interests. Kali especially loves history. She likes Tudor/Elizabethan history best. She has sat through BBC shows on that period that would bore most adults to death, yet she would beg to watch the next one soon as the last was over.
Lily loves cooking and cooking shows. She could watch them all day, (and did when we had cable). And right now, she's really into pirates.
They both are learning Spanish, (I'm learning French), they play learning games on the computer, we watch movies and talk about them, we love historically based movies like The 13th Warrior. They read with and to me. They've helped Alan and me with engine work. They can steer the boat. ?I'm working on a script for a no-budget movie and they'll help with that. We go to a poetry night every Friday. They also enjoy workbooks in all different subjects.
So, all in all, we hang out or go out to do things, and we talk alot... About anything and everything. And if we don't know, we look it up!
Regina