¡°List five things you learned after the age of twelve that you learned totally outside of school.¡±
One time i was sitting around chatting with some friends on a music playing weekend and they were asking me about home schooling etc. I started talking about the ¡®University of You Tube¡¯ as we like to call it in our house, which led to a great conversation amongst all these adults as to what they had learned from it. One person, who was a surgeon, had learned how to do ear lobe fillers from it! I thought that was amazing, that a surgeon was learning his craft from YouTube, (but also that having your earlobes filled was even a thing! ).
Others had learned how to fix a toilet cistern, repair a car, sew a button on, tune a double bass -its a great conversation starter and I¡¯ve used it since!
Things learned this month alone, (some with and some without the help of YouTube):
All about wheelchair types so as to make an appropriate purchase and how to safely push someone in it.
How to care for Rose bushes so they keep flowering, and how to take cuttings so i can have the same roses as my mum has in my own garden
How to trim a dogs nails (quite complicated and stressful and may well go back to taking her to the groomers).
How to ride a horse (not up to cantering yet but can trot and make him go mostly where i intend...)
All about cellos and bows so i can make an informed purchase for my daughter who is upgrading from a hire instrument.
And I¡¯m only stopping there as the rule is 5!!!
belinda dutch