Kiki's Hurricane Hurrah & Fire Function

[CindyinSD]

aha! so the sign thing I copied is called the treble cleft. I had no clue.

It's permissible to get him a piano or voice or guitar or... teacher, or I'll bet there are a lot of good online lessons you could sign up for and learn together. Music is a wonderful elective but hard to learn from a book.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It's permissible to get him a piano or voice or guitar or... teacher, or I'll bet there are a lot of good online lessons you could sign up for and learn together. Music is a wonderful elective but hard to learn from a book.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Music helps with so many things but like Cindy said, hard to learn from book and I’m sure if he was actually in school they would be using instruments? So might be a good idea to get some.

Here’s an interesting article I found.

https://www.kumon.co.uk/blog/the-benefits-of-children-learning-music/

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Day 4 of signature change -- no ticked off ❄s yet....

 

[CindyinSD]

We have done both flavors and I would agree with "most" when the specific topic is the "UN" community. There were several I got to meet over a few years here in DFW that were and a few still are Unschooling families. BUT, and this is a giant "but" the mind of a child that Unschooling works best with is likely to be proved to be a 1-5% of the human population. It requires a self motivated/ self starter kid. Admittedly *IF* I had know of that method back when I was in elementary and Grampa was teaching us about the ecosystem of our lake and the geographic region of Michigan we lived I, I likely would of just gone hogwild in our local public library! More so then I had with being in publ,I school.

I likely could of gotten I to college on scholarships and not needed to use the military to afford - and thus delay going to college. Butidigress....

On the other side of the coin.
The religious homeschoolers are the other "super nutter" side of the spectrum. Having met a few kids in college that came from those households their minds were an absolute mess when they started to realize the mutation/sanitized/whitewashed subjects they learned.

When we would go to the homeschooling convention every year in Fort Worth, the über xtain folks were really a wierd site to watch. The history book seller with the 30' long map/time line that went back to ~6000 years ago showing how "the devil created dinosaur skeletons in the different geologic layers to trick us into thinking the earth was more then what was in the Bible.

I am honestly sorry if this personal memory is offensive.

There was a lot of that at the time I was teaching my kids. I tried to believe it, too. It would have been better if I had not. The whole creationism thing goes back to the Calvinists and the split of Protestants from Roman Catholic. (I guess I'm neither, nor Arminian either, really.) About that time the Bible was translated into modern languages. A lot of people who didn't understand literature started interpreting it for themselves.

Many of the Protestant clergy understood the Creation story as it was (I believe) intended; as heaven-inspired sacred mythic literature expounding on the human condition. These clerics and theologians had no problem with evolution when it came to the fore.

There later rose to prominence certain less-classically educated leaders, who insisted on the literal interpretation of pretty much everything. The Bible could be understood by anyone, they taught, because it meant precisely, literally what it said. This movement became exceedingly popular and remains so to this day but, as CS Lewis said, "The Bible is a book that was written for grown-ups." Things are neither as simple nor as complicated as many have been led to believe, imo.

That's why you saw those charts. I am more Christian now than I was then or, for that matter, more than I was yesterday. But no, you don't offend me.

Since you posted publicly I wanted to answer publicly, but if you (or anyone else) want to continue the conversation we should probably do it privately.

 

[ShrekDawg]

There was a lot of that at the time I was teaching my kids. I tried to believe it, too. It would have been better if I had not. The whole creationism thing goes back to the Calvinists and the split of Protestants from Roman Catholic. (I guess I'm neither, nor Arminian either, really.) About that time the Bible was translated into modern languages. A lot of people who didn't understand literature started interpreting it for themselves.

Many of the Protestant clergy understood the Creation story as it was (I believe) intended; as heaven-inspired sacred mythic literature expounding on the human condition. These clerics and theologians had no problem with evolution when it came to the fore.

There later rose to prominence certain less-classically educated leaders, who insisted on the literal interpretation of pretty much everything. The Bible could be understood by anyone, they taught, because it meant precisely, literally what it said. This movement became exceedingly popular and remains so to this day but, as CS Lewis said, "The Bible is a book that was written for grown-ups." Things are neither as simple nor as complicated as many have been led to believe, imo.

That's why you saw those charts. I am more Christian now than I was then or, for that matter, more than I was yesterday. But no, you don't offend me.

Since you posted publicly I wanted to answer publicly, but if you (or anyone else) want to continue the conversation we should probably do it privately.

This was so fascinating! Thanks.

 

[electrycmonk]

Design a video game, which requires math practice to solve levels of play!

Yeah.... Those already exist. Have since the Apple ][e (I used to play them back then)

 

[electrycmonk]

Well.......

Deep subject ya started there Feather head.... What-chu diggin'up?

 

[electrycmonk]

Whose gonna ask, this time? .... " Not ME, said The Little Red Hen ..."

What, you sure it's not something more logically simple.... Occam's Razor type simple? Like, maybe she's about to start her cycle?????

 

[electrycmonk]

I can’t breathe


I’m on my P so I think I’ve got the munchies

Seeeeeeee?????? What's eye say about that, eh?