I think I am having a growth spurt!!Not the physical kind,thank God!!
The mental kind.
Working on math with my kids was what gave me the revelation.Math is to a certain degree abstract and you always wonder how much they need to understand the principle behind it and how much the methodology suffices.Sometimes when I explain something to the "home schooled" one,you can see how much he really gets and how much just goes over his head.And you wonder if you need to explain and re-explain until he understands the theory behind what we do,or focus more on teaching how the problem is solved.
So development progresses at a certain pace and is our expectation from our kids outpacing that?
I remember being in school and going,"Wow!!I remember learning this last year,but now I get it!!"I guess not everyone gets everything at the same pace.
If I am still the way I was at school,then I am still only 38!!Fighting it,still fighting it!!
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