Curiosity is the Curriculum

Your kids are home and they are driving you crazy! We've been homeschooling for 10 years and wanted to impart some wisdom on how you could spark their passions with a little curiosity! There is a lot of busy work given to your kids by their schools. They want to maintain control of what they learn and how. That's fine. Here's what I recommend. Put away the devices and turn off the TV. That's when you can make curiosity the curriculum.

• Challenge 1: Tell your kids to go outside and find something interesting. Don't come back until they do. Have them show & tell what they found. Maybe it's a quartz rock or a lizard or turtle or fossil or plant or flower or bug! Encourage them to learn more about the thing they found. This may lead to books or YouTube together.
• Challenge 2: Give your kids some wood pieces and nails or a hot glue gun and popsicle sticks and have them build something. Let them ask what they can build next. You can help them find a project online.
• Challenge 3: Give them old electronics that they can take apart and let them! My son turned this into a computer repair business at 13 years old.
• Challenge 4: Give them access to baking or sowing and let them figure it out with your guidance and using their device as a resource.

In each of these challenges, guide your kids to pursue their curiosity to knowledge, from knowledge to experiments, from experiments to excitement.
What if you could uncover a passion in your kids and fan the flame into something more exciting?