My kid has zero interest in reading about science. Doing science is a different story entirely. And fermentation turns out to be one of the best hands-on science units we’ve ever done, because the experiment is something you can eat at the end — which raises the stakes considerably from the average baking soda volcano….
Most high school economics curriculum teaches personal finance and theory. Useful, but abstract. What I wanted for my own kid was something where they could see the math working in real life, with a real thing they might actually do. A cottage food business turns out to be a nearly perfect vehicle for that. Here’s…
We homeschool, and one of the things I’m most grateful for is that nobody is making my kid sit at a desk when the garden needs looking at. That sounds obvious, but it took me a while to stop feeling guilty about it. Time outside isn’t a break from learning — for younger kids especially,…
My kid is good at math when it’s connected to something real. Give them a textbook problem about a train leaving a station at 60 miles per hour and watch the motivation evaporate. Give them a problem about how many quarts of tomato sauce we need to put up this summer based on how much…
