Old School

If you are alive and breathing and a mom on Facebook, you'll see that there is quite a divisive topic out there.

How to school your kids.

Public School, Home School, Christian School.

Well, I'd like to throw my two cents in.

No matter how you choose to school your children, there is a method that would complement any educational philosophy and is sorely overlooked.

You see, my husband and I have decided to bite the bullet and Old School our children.

Old-schooling.  Its right for everybody.

Indoctrination through immersion and a combination of tactile, audio, and visual stimulation.

For instance...

We teach our children the Alphabet while requiring them to roll down a car window in a wood-paneled Ford Station Wagon as Jon Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" blares on a ghetto blaster.

Also, studies prove that children learn Multiplication Tables faster when they recite them while using a Skip-It and wearing Osh Kosh Overalls and Converse Sneakers.

Worried about preparing your daughter for all those daunting term papers in college?  Adhere to our Intro to Composition process...

1.  Ask her to write a paper, with introduction and conclusion, on lined, 8x11, teal-colored paper.

2. A faux paint-splattered Trapper Keeper is also helpful but not required.

This will do...I guess...

3. Suggest topics such as "The Beginnings of Hip Hop",  "Who WAS the Boss:  A Look at Historic Sitcoms", or "Effectiveness of Ad Campaigns in the 1980s:  Did People REALLY Feel Like Chicken Tonight, Like Chicken Tonight?"

Finally, not sure your public school's Science Curriculum is up to snuff?  Simply Google episodes of "Mister Wizard".

Sigh...Nickelodeon, what happened to you?

There is no end to the possibilities.

I have not even broached the ways a Rubik's Cube has revolutionized our approach to Social Studies! 

No matter how you choose to school your children,

"Straight up, now tell me..." that you will Old School them.