Apr 22 2020 17 mins 3
Your kids are home and they are driving you crazy! We've been homeschooling for 10 years and wanted to impart some wisdom on how you could spark their passions with a little curiosity! There is a lot of busy work given to your kids by their schools. They want to maintain control of what they learn and how. That's fine. Here's what I recommend. Put away the devices and turn off the TV. That's when you can make curiosity the curriculum. Challenge 1: Tell your kids to go outside and find something interesting. Don't come back until they do. Have them show & tell what they found. Maybe it's a quartz rock or a lizard or turtle or fossil or plant or flower or bug! Encourage them to learn more about the thing they found. This may lead to books or YouTube together. Challenge 2: Give your kids some wood pieces and nails or a hot glue gun and popsicle sticks and have them build something. Let them ask what they can build next. You can help them find a project online. Challenge 3: Give them old electronics that they can take apart and let them! My son turned this into a computer repair business at 13 years old. Challenge 4: Give them access to baking or sowing and let them figure it out with your guidance and using their device as a resource. In each of these challenges, guide your kids to pursue their curiosity to knowledge, from knowledge to experiments, from experiments to excitement. What if you could uncover a passion in your kids and fan the flame into something more exciting?
