Ooooh, I remember making timelines with my kiddos - using dot matrix computer paper so it could be as long as the kids wanted it to be, going around corners from the kitchen to the playroom (aka dining room that had nothing in it but toys), to the living room and debating whether it could go upstairs. The things that they listed. Like T, my kids wanted ”relevant content“ so inventions like the telephone and computer were included, their birth dates, when their parents were born, when they moved from one home to another, and then some historical events like international wars and Star Wars. It wasn’t what I expected but it was much more relevant and interesting and informative.
Thanks for writing! You bring me down memory lane and joy!
Ah, see, you are the homeschool superstar that I dreamed of being, Cathy T! This is *exactly* the sort of timeline I wanted to do—history mixed up with culture mixed up with our family’s life. Then again, we didn’t really have a place to put such a timeline. I thought maybe it could be a foldable thing that could live in a folder—but then I worried that adding to it would become tedious and something I wanted to do, rather than something the kids wanted to do. (Though they probably would have enjoyed adding pop cultural stuff and random absurd bits.)
Dot matrix paper! I’ll bet nowadays moms don’t even know what that is 😜
Lack of space was sort of the reason we used dot matrix paper from the computer because it folded easily. But then it was folded, lol, and not used. Therefore it took over the house for a while. Very true about the lack of that kind of paper being understood by the younger generation. 🤣
Ooooh, I remember making timelines with my kiddos - using dot matrix computer paper so it could be as long as the kids wanted it to be, going around corners from the kitchen to the playroom (aka dining room that had nothing in it but toys), to the living room and debating whether it could go upstairs. The things that they listed. Like T, my kids wanted ”relevant content“ so inventions like the telephone and computer were included, their birth dates, when their parents were born, when they moved from one home to another, and then some historical events like international wars and Star Wars. It wasn’t what I expected but it was much more relevant and interesting and informative.
Thanks for writing! You bring me down memory lane and joy!
Ah, see, you are the homeschool superstar that I dreamed of being, Cathy T! This is *exactly* the sort of timeline I wanted to do—history mixed up with culture mixed up with our family’s life. Then again, we didn’t really have a place to put such a timeline. I thought maybe it could be a foldable thing that could live in a folder—but then I worried that adding to it would become tedious and something I wanted to do, rather than something the kids wanted to do. (Though they probably would have enjoyed adding pop cultural stuff and random absurd bits.)
Dot matrix paper! I’ll bet nowadays moms don’t even know what that is 😜
Lack of space was sort of the reason we used dot matrix paper from the computer because it folded easily. But then it was folded, lol, and not used. Therefore it took over the house for a while. Very true about the lack of that kind of paper being understood by the younger generation. 🤣