What Homeschoolers Do All Day.

In all fairness, my kids reminded me that they do this stuff when their school work is finished, but in all seriousness, I think “play is a child’s work” as good old Dr. Spock of 1950’s baby and child care fame once said. Frankly, I’m glad my kids have time and plenty of it to mess around and act silly. This is important to me.

I’m up on my soapbox so feel free to depart if you don’t want to hear a rant, but… Kids do not have time to just be kids anymore. Their lives are so micromanaged with activity from long hours sitting in school, to dance lessons, to gymnastics, to soccer, to swim team, to scouts, to god awful mindless, useless homework, to so many, many other things.

Many kids are woken up in the wee hours of the morning to be carted off to day care and are not picked up until dinner time. Heck they might as well put on the suit and tie and carry their little brief cases, they work just as hard as the hardest working office worker.

While Clarinet Hero is not going to get my kids a good grade on a standardized test or even help them with a future career, it does allow them the freedom to just be creative. I once read that  a number of polymaths or people who are geniouses in more than one area and had been interviewed, all stated that they had lots of time to just sit and think as children. None of my kids are geniouses but they do at least have time to get themselves bored and thus figure out how to get creative.  This is a good thing, I think. Enjoy.

~ by whatchamacalit on May 11, 2009.