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I guess I use summers to explore my kids interests in a way that would be infeasible for a school to do. When my oldest was interested in geology, we took a trip to a "gem mine". He had a blast sifting through the dirt and sand, and had a blast trying to use his books to figure out what each thing was.

I also try to work the things they've learned into real-world examples. For example, my oldest has learned about money, geometry, and measuring this year. He's going to help me build something this summer (I haven't quite decided what yet). He also keeps asking me if he has enough money for Minecraft. I've been working with him on figuring out the answer. (He keeps counting dollars as 1¢ and ten dollar bills as 10¢.)

I'd hate for these experience to go away because my kids are in school year-round. This is the part of the year that I get to take charge of their educations.