a small victory
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 2:27 am
ah , my lovely daughter and her mother, and I, were have a bit of a conversation about just how lovely she is when she is being snotty....
anyway, it ended up with me and her talking about what they are learning about the puritans in school and the question she had to answer about, "whether the "separatists" (puritans) were 'selfish' or 'selfless' " she had learned a bit about how they thought the church in England was too "fancy", and I told her a bit about how the pilgrims lived and thought.
well , I took her back as far as martin luther and got into the protestant reformation a bit, and explained why the catholic church was disliked and some of its sins, and that the Methodist church was protestant too
and I explained that all the colonists were not puritans. I told her a little about Roanoke island and Jamestown and rhode island and other colonists in Massachusetts....
anyway, to the victory part...
I told her that books were the key. that she could take a history book that the teacher would take all year to teach and read it in two nights..., yes the teachers would have other stuff to teach and explain, but that she could read a hundred history books in a year if she wanted and learn so much.... I pointed to my bookshelf and said..., there are a lot of books right there with history in them
....then she said,,, (and she likes to read) yeah, but I can t do that, those kinds of books are so boring that I just blank out abd can t read them.
...so, I told her..., that all depends on the author , and I pointed out Winston churchillls 6 volume memoir of world war 2, she said ..., ithought he was just the leader of England...
I eaplained that he was an accomplished author, and a big part of saving the free world too.
she ended up asking if she could take the first one upstairs and read it.. YAY!!!
she probably doesn t have the vocabulary to understand a lot of it yet, but matybe she will get something from it, hopefully she ll start asking me the meanings of a word here and there soon, then I ll know she is hooked on history...
anyway, it ended up with me and her talking about what they are learning about the puritans in school and the question she had to answer about, "whether the "separatists" (puritans) were 'selfish' or 'selfless' " she had learned a bit about how they thought the church in England was too "fancy", and I told her a bit about how the pilgrims lived and thought.
well , I took her back as far as martin luther and got into the protestant reformation a bit, and explained why the catholic church was disliked and some of its sins, and that the Methodist church was protestant too
and I explained that all the colonists were not puritans. I told her a little about Roanoke island and Jamestown and rhode island and other colonists in Massachusetts....
anyway, to the victory part...
I told her that books were the key. that she could take a history book that the teacher would take all year to teach and read it in two nights..., yes the teachers would have other stuff to teach and explain, but that she could read a hundred history books in a year if she wanted and learn so much.... I pointed to my bookshelf and said..., there are a lot of books right there with history in them
....then she said,,, (and she likes to read) yeah, but I can t do that, those kinds of books are so boring that I just blank out abd can t read them.
...so, I told her..., that all depends on the author , and I pointed out Winston churchillls 6 volume memoir of world war 2, she said ..., ithought he was just the leader of England...
I eaplained that he was an accomplished author, and a big part of saving the free world too.
she ended up asking if she could take the first one upstairs and read it.. YAY!!!
she probably doesn t have the vocabulary to understand a lot of it yet, but matybe she will get something from it, hopefully she ll start asking me the meanings of a word here and there soon, then I ll know she is hooked on history...
