I was sick today and pretty much just sat on the couch, watching my boys go by.
Their day included Perler beads (making a snake just like our pet and a glow-in-the-dark bookmark), installing the air conditioner for the season, a sewing class with other homeschooled teen boys, one boy teaching another to make tuna salad sandwiches, listening to the soundtrack of Newsies, singing tongue twisters with accents, installing electroluminescent wire on a bicycle, an impromptu playdate with a neighborhood friend (at which they played Jenga, Apples to Apples, Ninjago, Hexbugs and We Didn't Playtest This At All), watching YouTube vids of snakes eating live mice, reading the first chapters of Hatchet, designing a game with a custom-crafted spinner, navigating the city bus independently, a boy helping his aunt move furniture, much running around in the backyard, finishing up the modifications to a hand-me-down fairy habitat, and going to a spin jam at the riverside to maybe hopefully throw some light through the air.
They are amazing young people. I should sit back and watch them more often.
Since it's summer break, and I have a wedding and five other projects to attend to, and I recently made the bold claim that they learn everyday, and there's this excellent photo-a-day meme going around under the hashtag #100homeeddays, I am going to sit back and watch, aiming to catch and blog something the boys learn without me each day for the next one hundred.
Their day included Perler beads (making a snake just like our pet and a glow-in-the-dark bookmark), installing the air conditioner for the season, a sewing class with other homeschooled teen boys, one boy teaching another to make tuna salad sandwiches, listening to the soundtrack of Newsies, singing tongue twisters with accents, installing electroluminescent wire on a bicycle, an impromptu playdate with a neighborhood friend (at which they played Jenga, Apples to Apples, Ninjago, Hexbugs and We Didn't Playtest This At All), watching YouTube vids of snakes eating live mice, reading the first chapters of Hatchet, designing a game with a custom-crafted spinner, navigating the city bus independently, a boy helping his aunt move furniture, much running around in the backyard, finishing up the modifications to a hand-me-down fairy habitat, and going to a spin jam at the riverside to maybe hopefully throw some light through the air.
They are amazing young people. I should sit back and watch them more often.
Since it's summer break, and I have a wedding and five other projects to attend to, and I recently made the bold claim that they learn everyday, and there's this excellent photo-a-day meme going around under the hashtag #100homeeddays, I am going to sit back and watch, aiming to catch and blog something the boys learn without me each day for the next one hundred.