Whats a good starting place to teach my kids history?
My youngest child is now 7 as well. He is our 4th one being homeschooled. All the others are in their teens and 20s now. The best thing you can do at this age is to not think about what objectives they need to know or what facts the state says they should know. Your job now, at this age, is to inspire a love of history. I read a quote the other day. It said something along the lines of: Teaching without inspiring is like pounding cold iron. I remember the first few currciculums I came across 15 years ago when my oldest kids where around that same age. The curriculums were textbooks and worksheets. I instinctively bristled. There had to be something better. Textbooks and worksheets would come in due time, but I knew that they would kill my kid’s interest in history if I had used them. I kept looking and began finding resources that made history come alive for the kids (and me too). The kids made mocassins while I read a children’s novel about the childhood of Daniel Boone and story’s of
