I just had to share this fabulous moment that I had with my middle son last night. I immediately scooped up my phone and had to type it in so I wouldn't miss any of it! (Silly mommy blogger!)
We are laying in the bed talking about different people. Danny starts to name off a few boys. He says, "Kingston." I say, "Yes - thats your brother." He says "Thomas." I say, "He is your friend." He says, "Like gabriel is my friend?" "Yes" I say, "and whos your other brother?" He says, "Robert is my brother." And then he says "I have 2 brothers and 2 friends."
Lately he has just been throwing numbers out there. I love it! He just blurted out a few weeks ago and counted from 1 to 10. He is always saying things like "The 3 of us are going to do this" or "All 5 of us will do that." He has become very good at looking at a group of items and being able to quickly tell me how many are there.
Now this may not seem like anything super for a 3 1/2 year old. I don't know. I don't really get into what kids should be doing at what time. I focused on that for about a year and then learned that it wasn't worth the stress it was giving me! So honestly I'm not really sure what he is 'supposed to know' by now. I calm my fears by noticing that he is continuing to learn and grow. As long as he is expanding his knowledge - I am happy!
Maybe this comes from all the information I've read on unschooling. I feel confident that even though we aren't sitting down every day to do some sort of 'school' - my kids are still learning. I do try really hard to take notice and use any opportunity I can to point out 'educational concepts'. We are constantly counting and reciting letters and even adding up the toys. For fun one day we sat down and went over a toy that is for doing times tables. We recited each one all the way up to 10x10! Now I know he's not going to memorize those right now - but he was interested so I went with it!
I think the most important thing it to take advantage of the fun opportunities that there are for learning. We just have to remember that education is not only books and papers but can really be achieved in so many other ways!
Do you have moments when you see your kids do something and you think "Now where did they learn that?" I'd love to hear about them!
Now this may not seem like anything super for a 3 1/2 year old. I don't know. I don't really get into what kids should be doing at what time. I focused on that for about a year and then learned that it wasn't worth the stress it was giving me! So honestly I'm not really sure what he is 'supposed to know' by now. I calm my fears by noticing that he is continuing to learn and grow. As long as he is expanding his knowledge - I am happy!
Maybe this comes from all the information I've read on unschooling. I feel confident that even though we aren't sitting down every day to do some sort of 'school' - my kids are still learning. I do try really hard to take notice and use any opportunity I can to point out 'educational concepts'. We are constantly counting and reciting letters and even adding up the toys. For fun one day we sat down and went over a toy that is for doing times tables. We recited each one all the way up to 10x10! Now I know he's not going to memorize those right now - but he was interested so I went with it!
I think the most important thing it to take advantage of the fun opportunities that there are for learning. We just have to remember that education is not only books and papers but can really be achieved in so many other ways!
Do you have moments when you see your kids do something and you think "Now where did they learn that?" I'd love to hear about them!
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