Raising Future Adults

I have on more than one occasion made a fool of myself by recommending the long out-of-publication game Pit Droids . I went so far as to ask around , essentially to no avail.  The story behind Lucas Learning is that George Lucas wasn't a very good student and wanted to create edutainment materials for kids like him. So it turns out he kind of lacks something as an educator too and Pit Droids and Droid Works are out of print, probably because they don't tell you what they are teaching you. The Fandom description of Pit Droids suggests to me this is the one that teaches Set Theory, something I learned in my college level math classes in high school, though the Fandom description seems to say nothing about what it teaches. And both games may teach Set Theory. I didn't play the games, so I don't recall. My math challenged oldest son LOVED these games. I encouraged him to play and counted it as math in his homeschool portfolio because while it doesn't cover the mathemati...

I was always a sickly child. In eighth grade, I missed like a week of school or something and so I turned in my project late, well after everyone else. We were supposed to make a scale model of the solar system. I used a beach ball for the sun and various sizes of other balls and marbles for the planets. I was a smart kid and this teacher took GLEE in busting me. She's the same bitch who got after me for explaining the letter-substitution thing to my Hispanic friend who spoke English as a second language. That's the point at which I concluded I'm not necessarily inherently smarter than anyone else. I knew what it was because my high school drop out father did the cryptoquote in the newspaper every single day. This kid had no idea where to start and she bitched at me about "cheating" for telling him it was a letter-substitution puzzle so he had some hope of succeeding. So we are having a fairly private conversation about my very late project and she asks me about s...