An Off Day....or maybe not.

Well, the last couple of days I haven't felt the best (fighting a cold) so by yesterday afternoon, I decided that it was time to give my body some rest and let it heal as it needed. This is very difficult for me, as my family will all vouch for, but I did it today...:) The girls and I got comfy on the downstairs sofa and turned on Netflix to see what would keep us entertained (and maybe we could sneak in some learning too). Found an Egyptian Afterlife documentary that we enjoyed, watched our first episode of The Electric Company and found it catchy, watched our first Madeline (picked up some french vocabulary), and then finally the girl's experienced their first Abbot and Costello ( Meet the Mummy) which provided laughs and giggles. All in all it was a nice relaxing day and I got waited on whenever I rang my cowbell (the girl's idea).


Maybe it was an off day.........or maybe it wasn't. I'm beginning to love and embrace the idea that learning isn't contingent or only accomplished with paper and pen in hand or a book in front of us. We don't have to be sitting at a desk, or taking a test to prove ourselves. 

"It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."tAlbert Einstein 

When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them. —Sandra Dodd All Kinds of Homeschooling

"A child does not have to be motivated to learn; in fact, learning cannot be stopped. A child will focus on the world around him and long to understand it. He will want to know why things are the way they are. He won’t have to be told to be curious; he will just be curious. He has no desire to be ignorant; rather he wants to know everything. " —Valerie Fitzenreiter, in The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School


"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself." -Grace Llewellyn