5 Great Unplanned Homeschool Lessons
March 19, 2009
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Thanks for the heart-warming post!
I fondly remember my 3rd grade teacher reading Charlotte’s Web to the class. It’s a great story.
The types of experiences that you describe are available to all of us each day, if we are open to seeing them.
Hey great post!
My Dad was a science teacher, and he never missed a chance to teach us something cool about the world around us.
Most importantly I learned that there is a reason for everything.
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Hi Lisis,
Even though I am adult, a few years ago my dad taught me something that was mind boggling. It has to do with the human brain and how pain medicines work.
Pain medicines do not stop the pain or cure the pain, they simply cut off the feeling of pain; the medicine basically numbs the nerve. I never knew that. That tiny piece of information caused me to learn more about the brain which lead me to understand more about happiness. So learning never stops!
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I am so glad you guys liked the post. I wanted to make sure it didn’t come across as homeschool-specific. There are so many great learning opportunities is our kids (and for us) if we are just willing to notice them all around us.
@ Nadia: That is a really neat lesson you just shared with us. The pain and the hurt may still be there, but we don’t necessarily have to feel it. I guess we have the option to medicate it away (with painkillers, drugs, food, etc.) or we can choose not to experience it as pain. Arguably, this would be harder to do, but it is not impossible. Truly, the learning never stops.
This is beautiful. Lessons we could *all* stand to learn from time to time. Homeschooled or no, learning to take pleasure in simple, ordinary beauty is an important lesson for us to teach our children, and they don’t teach it in schools anyway! Even as adults, I think we need to revisit these lessons from time to time. Thank you for allowing us to revisit these lessons with you.
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Lisis, these are beautiful lessons. Sounds like your son is enrolled in one of the best schools ever! Lucky kid.
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