Me: Miles, do you know? Who won the First Punic War?
Miles: America?
Me: Miles! America wasn't fighting in that war!
Miles: Then why are we even studying this???!!
Me: *blank stare*
Me: Ok, Colsen, do YOU know?
Colsen: Oh, I think it was that guy... King David? No, wait, who was that king that had that great teacher?
Me: You mean Alexander the Great?
Colsen: Yeah -- him!
Me: No, he died. GUYS. Remember what I JUST said?? The First Punic War was fought between Rome and Carthage! Who won? PICK ONE OF THOSE GROUPS I JUST SAID!
Colsen: Ummm... Rome???
I finally picked myself up off the floor enough to begin reading the new history section for today about the Second Punic War, wondering the whole time why I even bother.
Part way through, Miles ask, "So who are we rooting for here? I think I pick Carthage!"
History lessons are failing on all kinds of levels here....
Tell them they just need to answer "Jesus" to every question - this is what the kids in our sunday school do :)
ReplyDeleteNow is the time for you to be reading to them (or ME to be reading to them) "Puck of Pook's Hill" by Robert Lousi Stevenson - it takes all that history period and teaches it to the kids in an amazing way...