Mental Floss

Grace and I attended a fun "club" yesterday with her homeschool group. It was called "Mental Floss" , and the idea behind it is that the children get to see and participate in conversations about potentially-conflicting view points. The point of it being about conflicting viewpoints is for the children to observe the parents having differing opinions from one another, but still being able to hold a worthwhile conversation. We first watched half of "The Journey of Man", a video chronicling the adventures of Geneticist Spencer Wells and his search for the truth about where we all come from. His claim, substantiated by some pretty good preliminary data dealing with markers on the Y chromosomes of men he samples along the way, is that we are all descended from common ancestors in southern Africa, whose descendants today are the Bushman.
We all then had a wonderful conversation about it and came out friends on the other side! ;) It was a great experience for the kids and the adults both, and something that I feel is good to model for the kids.
The children the donned their bathing suits and went to play in the back yard on the trampoline and with the sprinkler. It was a great day!
Forte