This morning I had a great zoom meeting with Sam from @eftnow, discussing meta health and tapping. & Homeopathy. Fascinating! We looked at ways we can collaborate. Well met on Steemit, Sam Neffendorf! 😄
Then the kids were up about 11am ish and I had to get very sharp about renewing my car insurance so I could drive! I managed to reinsure 3 cars (we have a spare because we live IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!) for the price they were asking for my one! Score! Pleased I took that job on myself. Meanwhile, Yuki was watching Mary Poppins for the first time in her living memory! How did she miss out on that?
We’ve been discussing the run on the bank in Mary Poppins and how banks collapse, that they rarely hold enough money to actually pay everyone back all at once. Yuki says that in Sam & Cat, Sam’ tells Cat that her uncle says to never trust banks and Cat asks “Why not? Was your uncle a banker?” And Sam answers “No! He was a robber.” Yuki laughs and says “I don’t trust banks. I’d keep my money in a Beef Jerky bag.” She loves beef jerky and I think this is just an excuse to think about beef jerky!
Whilst Mia and I were out for piano, Yuki & Freya played minecraft. Yuki read a bit and watched some ‘Secret Life of Animals’ & Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. Not sure what Freya did. That’s clearly ‘her business’ and I’d not be allowed to talk about it any-hooo. 😂
Now Yuki’s decided we are doing Carol Vorderman’s problem solving (10pm at night is when her brain is sharp she tells me). Yuki loves Eight out of Ten Cats do Countdown (it’s rude, she warns me as I write, a little sure to let me know my audience may be scandalised) & Carol has a connection with Countdown that’s selling her maths books to 10 year olds it seems! Inspiration from strange places.
It was decimals, fractions and percentages page today. She’s doing it for fun. That’s a very unschooled attitude to maths.
She’s got good problem solving skills that appeared as if out of nowhere and she’s rubbishing the common sense theory that you have to do maths in a specific order.
It’s glaring me in the face how my class struggled so with the problem solving element of maths and how my unschooled kids have absorbed problem solving and have their own ways to work stuff out. They may not know school maths at all but they can do actual maths.
Yuki’s showing me how to do charlston feet now she’s done, another thing she got somewhere.
The chances of her education not being ‘broad and balanced’ (without any intervention) is about zero.
Who cares about broad and balanced? Broad and balanced is for education systems where children have no choice to follow their passions and interests and must have a slim skim of a chance at doing everything. People have come to think that broad and balanced is a necessity for all education just because it’s appropriate for schools (like they’ve come to think inspection is a necessity for all education!)
Yuki is a ‘dipper’.
She skims things, does a little, skims it again some months or years later. She’s doing a bit of drawing at night just before sleeping and she’s kept at it for a while. It unusual for her to be doing the same thing often.
Mia & Freya, on the contrary are ‘Divers’ (as am I).
We immerse ourselves up to the eyebrows in whatever we are doing, get really good at it, then drop it. We are ‘done’. Haha. This drives people mad. Why would you spend so much time getting really good at something then drop it and change direction? Grr. Haha. Most likely Yuki is the one of us most suited to schooled education but she’s no desire or need to go and have all her freedom taken up.
Now Jon, Yuki & Mia are watching Game of Thrones. Another ‘inappropriate’ program with lots of learning in it! 😂
I’m gonna go to bed and they’ll appear at some point t and snuggle in.
I need to be up in the morning to take Mia for some sleep-investigation as her apnea may have returned. She’s been having suffocation nightmares and her friend said she stopped breathing when she slept over ... but she’s seen our homeopath and the nightmares haven’t occurred since, so we may have resolved it again. Good to check.
Nice thing this time around is that she’s not a baby and she can tell them herself: “Fuck of! My mum & dad DON’T have Munchausen’s by Proxy”.
But THAT’s another story! 😡
Hey Sally. Loved speaking with you this morning and really excited to see what unfolds.
Hope all is OK for Mia.
Me too on both accounts. 😄
Cheers Sam.
Oh, we've been working on some Carol Vorderman books too - not recently, but anyway... and, by the way, I'm not allowed to know what my son is doing on the computer although I know for certain he's just playing some game or watching a video he knows I wouldn't object, too... but he has privacy issues!
Ha! Yes. It’s good that he has his privacy. People in general seem to think a right to privacy comes at age 18! I’m too inclined to be open in the opinion of 50% of my children I think!
I think half the attraction of Vordemann books is gold stars. I’m not sure gold star application has the same significance for my kids (never held with star giving as it tends to dilute the intrinsic reward of an activity I reckon & amyhow, it’s coercive to my mind of course). But they are shiny and start shaped. What’s not to love? 😂
I’m not sure there’s anything particularly different about those Vordemann, but the maths challenge format always appealed to Mia too. Both of them see maths as a fun puzzle I think.
I also don't believe in bank but peoples are not having another option
The Book Problem Solving Made Easy by Carol Vorderman is really awesome and knowledgeable book to read.
Thank you @sallylloyd your follower @akshaymukadam.
Hopefully we are building alternatives to banks. 😄
Loving Yuki's unschooled attitude to Maths :) How many kids do you have? I counted 3, but could be wrong. You guys sound fun!
Also @sallylloyd, I messaged you on discord recently, just wondering if you got it :)
I’ve been so slack on discord! I missed it. Will go see if I can find your message.
I’m LOVING ayuki’s maths confidence. She was really lacking in confidence until she had a success or two that surprised her and now she is maths invincible! She asks to do it. 😄
I have a 4th, age 30 in Oz 😄
No worries!!!
I really love that! I loves Maths (studying mostly Maths for my degree), so it's always so nice to hear when someone connects with Maths <3
Wow, 4! Go you :)
@redrica my #1 (30) put a glass bead up her nostril (“I was rubbing it on my top lip and it slipped.”) and had to have it removed in hospital. It was the size of 5p!!!! Goodness knows how that slips up your nostril!