Originally featured on Dandelion Moms. Hello Again! Here is a continuation of my last post, Part 1, on the incredible skills kids and parents learn while traveling. COMMUNICATION This is a biggie! Effective communication skills are essential for success in all areas of life. While traveling, kids meet new people everyday, hear new languages, dialects, and…
Originally featured on Dandelion Moms, The initial motivations for my family’s around-the-world journey were that it would be an amazing chance to spend time together as a family and a great education for our kids. Yet, I could have never predicted all the invaluable life skills they would be learning along the way! Traveling has…
During the past few months, Kaitlin has been writing an adventure novel with her incredible English “class” called The One Year Adventure Novel. With her love of history, archaeology, and adventure, this class immediately became her all-time favorite. Not only has she been writing an adventure novel, but she is actually living the adventures…
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When we think about homeschooling, we think about following the curriculum, doing math equations and taking quizzes, just like at school. WELL, yes, it can be that, but it is also something much more educational and powerful: experience and knowledge. Homeschooling or Worldschooling (the way we’re doing it) is about seeing…
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Checkpoint Charlie was the name the Allies gave to the crossing point between West and East Berlin. Many important events happened in this location like the Face-Off of Western and Soviet tanks during the Berlin Crisis in 1961 and the shooting of Peter Fletcher in 1962. After the Berlin Wall fell…
Last year on the morning of November 11th, we were awoken to the high-pitched siren that warns the residents of Venice that acqua alta (high water) would be arriving within the next 3 hours. We were very used to this, but normally the siren only signals moderate high tide, but that morning was different. This time…
Oh! I just loved the Van Gogh Museum! I had visited it when we lived in Amsterdam in 1997, but I did not appreciate the paintings as much as I did today. Perhaps I was too worried about the party I was going to that night or some other distraction one has when living in…
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