We are two weeks into summer. No camps. No dance. No tutors. No theater. No jazz band.
A lot of free time to get splendidly bored. Call it un-schooling if you want.
For me, summer is for simplifying.
But that doesn’t mean I’ve given up trying to teach them anything.
The world throws a lot at kids. It’s noisy out there with a lot of competing voices. How do I get them to remember anything I tell them, especially during vacation?
By simplifying.
David McCullough’s biography of John Adams includes a great quote: “To be good and to do good, is all we have to do.”
Be good. Do good. When the world gets noisy, that’s not bad advice to fall back on. As parents, or as kids.
Keep it simple this summer. Be good. Do good.