Homeschooling, Unschooling, Working full-time, being the boss in charge of everything at the office, being in charge of everything (well almost) at home, the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry, the pantry stocking, the pet food suppling, the procurer of new books, games, clothes, .... plants, pets.... Life sure seems busy. And then it's finally sweet, sweet, bedtime!!
I LOVE bedtime!! Probably, because by MY bedtime, I'm REALLY tired. If you have ever read anything about unschooling, or should I say radical unschooling, there isn't an across the board bedtime for all. Nope. In our house, everyone goes to bed when they want to.
Grandma is free to stay up and read all night long if she wants. Just not out in the dining room which will keep the birds singing all night. (That goes for everyone. The birds' bedtime must be respected, too, lol.)
Since I must be to work in the morning, I have a bed time. I find I get grumpy if I stay up too late and that's not fun for anyone. But my kids? One is early to bed, one likes 2:00am, and one likes...who knows...she's a teenager and loves to sleep.
The 2am child asked me last night, after I had fallen asleep, (yes, he woke me up) to inform me he needed a book to read. Gee, we had just been to the book store two days ago where I spent around $70.00 buying books for him. He had read them all and needed another novel. So what did I do?
UNschooling/Funschooling....it was late. He said he had read everything on the shelves and in our house, that's quite a lot, so I grabbed the Fifth grade Abeka Old World History and Geography Book and told him to read me to sleep. 
Boy, let me tell you, when you've been unschooling for a couple of years, being handed a TEXTBOOK sure makes the child sit up and notice! He complained Geography would be boring. WHY would HE EVER need IT!?!?!
I stayed the course. He said he needed to read. He said he had read EVERYTHING. (But the textbooks on the shelf, of course.)
Well, by the time he was a few pages in, we were both laughing and exploring and enjoying a bedtime textbook. What I don't quite get, is this kid reads EVERYTHING unless he thinks it's a textbook. He's been studying Greek mythology on his own! He's even ASKED for MORE on the subject!
Lol. KIDS!
I'm praying for more textbooks to be designed like a well written novel because textbooks are the bane of this child. Maybe I should just remove covers.....hmmmm.
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