One thing I can tell you about homeschooling a pair of very bright and articulate children is that finding ways to keep them engaged.

Mine are no exception to that.  There is Dance for the Diva, but Calvin being only three years old is harder to find things that aren’t lightning McQueen or Bakugon… and while I can use Cars for teaching some things (basic physics…) I don’t know enough about Bakugon to save my life.

Bright as they are, it’s a mother’s perrogative to say that her kids might grow up to be Doctors, Lawyers, or maybe even the President.

Enter online education and my being thankful for it… makes teaching the Diva much easier when I can just link to US president / women in history games and see what I can engage her with there.

When I was in DC in May I brought her back a pink Tshirt that read Future President of the USA.   I’d like someday, very much, to be able to say that her education and our flexibility to think out of the box and find alternate means of getting her as far ahead as we could, was precisely what wrought her success.

That and of course her brains.  Studying with an online history program of course helps, but without her drive, determination and of course those brains, well all the advantages I could give her wouldn’t matter.    There’s that saying you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink… well between dancing and online education, my kids are trying to guzzle all the water in the basin of knowledge.  It makes me proud of course, and glad we’ve made the choices we have made, as they are flourishing and pretty darn good kids.