All moms are homeschooling moms

I mean it.  I think we, as moms, might underestimate exactly how MUCH stuff we teach our children every day, whether they go to school or not.  Now that I am officially a home-schooling mom, I have started looking at our daily life in a whole new light.  And what do I see? 

Every. Single. Thing. is a learning opportunity.

We wake up, we read a book and cuddle.  Learning is going on here.
We cook breakfast and read a few poems.  Learning is going on here.
 We clean up.  Learning.
We go to the grocery store.  Learning.

You get the picture.  Now that I have accepted the responsibility of educating my kids, I realize that I've always had that responsibility, like all parents.  It's made me think more, though, made me look at every opportunity as a chance for discussion and explanation and experimentation.  I've gotten much better at narrating our day-to-day lives, something I am not naturally good at.   

It makes every day tasks more meaningful again, when I look at them in light of a new child-educating vocation. 

Inequalities with a hungry alligator 

(Another easy DIY project- just find an alligator clip art that you like, with a wide open mouth, and then make a copy of the image and reverse it.  Print a few, and glue them back to back, so that turning the card over makes the alligator face the other direction.  Alligator's mouth will eventually become the > and < mathematical symbols)