Alex has been filling lots of his home time with watching Youtube on his iPad. He rarely uses it for playing games, though there are plenty there. He watches The Avengers, probably his new favourite show. His favourite is Iron Man.We’ve also watched a couple of the movies. He wants me to build him an […]
Tag: Trains
The millipedes live on and mindfulness
So, Alex has successfully kept the garden millipedes that are now container bound alive for a whole week! Well, one kind of got broken my chubby fingers… Anyway, we have found out why they need to be in a damp environment from books from the library, have discovered details about their anatomy, and successfully fed […]
Counting and books
Alex has been counting to 100 lots lately, especially carriages or engines on the model trains he watches on Youtube. Today we went to a freight train yard, he was ecstatic. Alex is also close to earning his 100 badge for karate. He’s been asking “how many more” for a few weeks now. I think […]
Pocket money, food, TV
These three things (consumerism rather than pocket money exactly) are the ones we struggle with as unschoolers because they are the things we have had to release control over as we moved from our previous existence as natural, gentle parents. I’ll explain where we are at with each now. Pocket Money – When Alex turned […]
Back on track!
The love of trains is back. Though we’ve realised it’s more than just trains… it’s length. Alex has always liked building long trains. The number of carriages was his pleasure. It got hard when there were other kids around, we just thought he was not ready to share and similar preschool issues. But we’ve since […]