Over the past year we have learned to take advantage of moments to teach our children about life. We have tried to explain the benefits of education in interesting and fun ways so that they will enjoy school more, and also see the advantages of a good education.
We have probably not done this is the best way possible. Like pointing out the person smoking crack on the side of the street was doing so because he decided not to go to school. Looking back, this was probably not something we should have pointed out in the first place. Or how about pointing out the ladies standing on the side of the road "looking for rides" don't have a car because they did not finish school to get a good job in order to buy one. That was a good explanation!
Well, my husband has started to listen to talk radio here. He says it is very interesting, but mostly he hears about crime. We thought one story would make a great word problem for the kids:
There were 15 guys robbing an ATM. The cops shot 6 of them. How many are still alive?
That should get them interested in math, right?
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