If you ever decide to home educate, be sure not to make the mistake I made for today's science lesson.
Science is predominantly a dad topic so I set out what we are covering and teach it to my wife, which mostly involves reminding with a few new bits.
The topic being covered was genetics specifically base pairs and DNA structure. During planning I had said there is no point having the full names for the A, T, C, G or DNA, that will simply add confusion and he will worry that we expect him to remember it all. This was a mistake.
He wanted to know the full names and my wife went on line to find them, which resulted in a batch of other details confusing what should have been a simple set of information, and my son losing interest as it put what we were saying in doubt.
If I had put that detail in place but stated they were not essential this would have been avoided.
There are subjects where he wouldn't have asked, I should have remembered science was never going to be one of them. No matter how much you think you have planned for, it will never be right every time.
In fairness we are a few years ahead on this topic so it shouldn't have been an issue. Genetics, even at a basic level wouldn't normally be part of education before high school. In fact we looked at a mock GCSE paper and the areas he is covering would have answered almost half of the topic there. The difference interest makes.
English is still fun as he hates writing, and sees no real point to understanding the exact name of different types of words etc. Trying to convince him to persevere is an uphill struggle that we keep rolling back down, but it still has to be done.
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