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Posted: May 02 2007 at 8:05pm | IP Logged Quote mariB
I'm so excited! Our 15 year along with the help of his 13 yr old brother are almost done installing a vinyl tile floor in our kitchen. Is this real learning?
The measuring and calculating is awesome. My husband is busy staining our living room and hallway floors so our son said,"Mom, I'll do it." He loves projects and is currently making an electric guitar.

He is in his 2nd and 3rd quarters with Seton and we do only what is absolutely necessary because I think he and all our children learn so much in everyday life.

I don't think i would feel comfortable laying a floor now let alone when I was 15.

Can you tell I'm really excited about my new floor? My mom said our chickens have a better floor in their coop than in our kitchen. And it's true until now!('')

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Posted: May 02 2007 at 8:26pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth



Very real !!

Last year, my then 13 yo wired my kitchen, installed lighting and switched a chandelier!

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Posted: May 02 2007 at 8:38pm | IP Logged Quote Philothea
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Posted: May 02 2007 at 8:58pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Yes, great real learning! Our best real learning like that was when oldest ds helped dh reroof the house.

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Posted: May 02 2007 at 9:45pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
That is awesome! I am impressed at his abilities AND initiative!

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Posted: May 02 2007 at 10:01pm | IP Logged Quote Jane Ramsey
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Posted: May 03 2007 at 7:21am | IP Logged Quote stefoodie


You just gave me ammunition to show dh that we CAN do this.

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Posted: May 03 2007 at 7:28am | IP Logged Quote momtomany
This sounds like my almost 15 year old. He rushes thru his official school work so that he's free to do his projects, doing brake jobs on cars, rebuilding the chicken yard, rewiring lights, rebuilding engines, etc. He gets up on Saturday mornings with his own list of projects!
I started taking pictures of his projects to put in the portfolio that has to be submitted to the school district. How can this not be real learning, right?

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