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O is for Octopus I love My Father's World Kindergarten curriculum.  It makes me sad that I only have one more opportunity to go through it again.  I love this age to school.  Eager, cuddly, lapsitters, wanting to please and eating up praise like M&M's.   The trick with kindergarten is to know when to push a little further or to give up for the day and let them learn by doing their own things. I am a big proponent of children being bored.  Some of my best childhood memories come from being bored out of my ever loving mind. I fondly remember laying on my bed in 1000 degree plus weather reading a book in front of the window.  We didn't have air conditioning and we survived.  I remember hopping off that bed and making weird noises in the giant commercial fan that attempted to cool the upstairs bedrooms.   I also have great memories of building sheet forts with my brothers and riding my bike for hours.  No kidding hours. Aliyah l...