[RosieCotton]

I like your views on teaching! Mom tried to do similar things with us...for example, we would try to visit museums, try foods that would have been common at the time (or in that country, for geography class), learn what books were popular...just make it a little more well rounded, or 3-dimensional as you put it, which fits nicely.

[Fedora]

I like the way your Mom taught, too :) I especially like the trying food from different places/eras thing--I never thought of that :) My parents also tried to do stuff like that. They were both teachers, as well as interested in nature and history, so we'd often go to especially zoos, aquariums, and museums. I was always learning stuff, but didn't think of it as learning, I was just having fun--I think that was one big key to why it was interesting to me.