Passions Take Time

Each of us are created uniquely by God.  Which includes our children.  Each child is formed with particular interests and passions.  When we invest energy in a passion it becomes part of our journey. This journey takes time.  Thus passions take time.

You can not expect to understand and go further in areas of interest with out investing time.  So often, I hear homeschool moms make the statement that they unschool or pursue interest led learning in free time, after academics.  In order to follow their passions, children need limitless time to settle, ponder, and experience in a field.  

Are these areas strictly scholarly?  Basically, no.  Any interest has history, science, reading, writing, and mathematical aspects.  

How is that possible?  Our life is made up of naturally occurring bits of these subjects.  When learning independently these subjects are not needed to isolate the information.  Everything is related and connected.  But often for parents who are "schooled," we like to see these ideas covered.

In the next post, I will give real world application to making this possible.