When unschooling-- teaching, learning, living--the good part is that EVERYTHING COUNTS:
a bank queue is a valuable lesson about moneymaking, money saving, paying, property, work...
a tv program, especially the news, can be actually contrasted with reality. We did so with the news about "city destruction" the day Bush visited Bogotá. Contrasting what news said with what my kids and Matías saw was very, very interesting.
every day is an insect watching expedition
going to the park makes us think and do incredible things with our bodies (actually our bodies can do it all but our civilization has forgotten)
walking (they do so every day with dad) gives you panoramic perspective, such as the one expressed by Rosario's drawings of the "city" from above (maps, mapmaking, relative distances, urbanism--why things are where they are)
going to other people's houses teaches us about rules and their meaning
Then you just see things happening: your kids start speaking quite well quite soon, start knowing reading patterns, start asking how to tell time (and do so intuitively with incredible accuracy), start perfectioning their drawings, start knowing colors, star knowing biological taxonomies and bits and pieces of history... what else matters?
Knowledge is everywhere.
a bank queue is a valuable lesson about moneymaking, money saving, paying, property, work...
a tv program, especially the news, can be actually contrasted with reality. We did so with the news about "city destruction" the day Bush visited Bogotá. Contrasting what news said with what my kids and Matías saw was very, very interesting.
every day is an insect watching expedition
going to the park makes us think and do incredible things with our bodies (actually our bodies can do it all but our civilization has forgotten)
walking (they do so every day with dad) gives you panoramic perspective, such as the one expressed by Rosario's drawings of the "city" from above (maps, mapmaking, relative distances, urbanism--why things are where they are)
going to other people's houses teaches us about rules and their meaning
Then you just see things happening: your kids start speaking quite well quite soon, start knowing reading patterns, start asking how to tell time (and do so intuitively with incredible accuracy), start perfectioning their drawings, start knowing colors, star knowing biological taxonomies and bits and pieces of history... what else matters?
Knowledge is everywhere.
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