The week before we started homeschooling, my son was curious about:
- Basketball
- Dirt bikes
- Dodge Challengers
- Air Jordans
In the week since we started homeschooling, my son has been curious about:
- Basketball
- Dirt bikes
- Dodge Challengers
- Air Jordans
And:
- Wild mustangs
- Alcatraz
- Al Capone
- Autism
- The Presidential elections
- Domino structures
- The tallest building in the world
- What Slavic means
- How to tame a feral cat
- Martha Stewart’s Easter egg dyeing techniques
- The life span of giant squids
- How much elephant seals weigh
- The color of Grumpy Cat’s eyes
- The Amish
- Tasmanian devils
- The Romanovs
- Atrocities against Native Americans
- Bald eagles
- How eagles fight
- Will Smith
- How to reconstitute clay
- If computers ever play humans at chess and who wins
- The buying power of one million dollars in 1935
- The Great Depression
- Immigration reform
- How much a horse poops in a day
- Why pineapple burns your tongue
the dirigible plum 
9 responses to “Unschooling: Before and After Slice of Life 23/31 #sol16”
How to say so much by not really saying it. Brilliant. And what a list!
Why DOES pineapple burn your tongue? Your son is really digging into the important questions (that is not sarcasm, btw).
Holy cow! What a list! This makes me want to weep.
This list makes me want to cry. What are we doing to our kids!
It’s a great list, seems like it’s had some fertilizer to help it grow! So good to read this.
What a fascinating list!!! And what a powerful testament to the curiosity that you’re clearly nurturing at home with your son, too. 🙂
well, it is good to read this, and then it sort of breaks my heart, too–not because of your choice for your son–not that at all–but because I want public school to quit with all this over-the-top testing nonsense and move forward into this, too. bravo for you guys!
Pineapple tries to digest you, before you can digest it! No joke.
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