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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 loves school. Well maybe not math.  She dislikes the number 15.  So we have started calling this poor  forgotten number five teen.   At 5 she still has not nailed down counting to 100 or all of the alphabet.  No worries she is too busy being a princess.
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