Seriously. If I wasn't totally sure of this before, I am given more and more reason to be sure of it all the time. I had to go upstairs to put Poppy down for a nap - I told Rowan to be quiet downstairs and I would be back in a few minutes. As I was laying with Poppy I could hear some rustling around, doors opening, a little clanging here and there. About ten minutes passed and when I came downstairs, he was making his own papier-mache mixture. See picture. He had a huge bag of flour on the table, a measuring cup with water (he got water from the sink by standing on a kitchen chair), big metal bowl, and wooden spoon. "Can you just get me a bit more water please?" he said as he continued to stir his goop at the table. I had given him a brief verbal rundown of how we were going to make a papier-mache dragon whenever I got around to it but he got all the supplies and started to do it all on his own. Pretty cool. Now once the mixture was done he would not put his hands in it so I was able to be his Adult Assistant and did the messy work. Just going with those moments is what makes homeschooling (unschooling) so much fun in our house.
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