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Barb, Ordinarily I would agree with you, but we have gone to extraordinary efforts to get the kids to look at all identifiable sides of things...
Steve Richfie1d Here's a key point: If you're at all interested in this stuff, then you don't wait for somebody to teach you whatever you need, or would like to know: Instead...
Bill, et al,
In my rather different approach, my kids had a box full of things (broken small appliances, etc.) to take apart and the tools to do it with, etc., from when they could first crawl. I am convinced the the MOST important "period" in their education is right at the beginning, when people put their babies in the hospital crying rooms. On day one, when the kid cries for milk, you wait until they stop to catch their breath and THEN you quickly feed them, After a couple of times they figure out that it is when they STOP screaming that they get fed, and from then on you get one loud blast followed by silence as they wait for their milk. Saves your eardrums and starts communication on day one. If you just construct a LOGICAL world for them, they will grow up logically. However, most people consider them to be mindless blobs and so pay no such attention until they get into school, when it is almost always just too late.
One challenge I had was that my kids knew other kids were in school and wondered if they weren't really missing something. Ultimately, I had to just enroll them for a while so they could see how bad things were there, and so each of them got a couple of years total in the form of a few months here and there. It didn't take them long to realize that they were learning more at home than they could ever learn from the talking heads at school.
Steve Richfie1d
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