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Karena's avatar

Huh!!! Did I give you a copy of my book, Harrison? If so, the travel+education stories in there from our year of traveling the world with tell you exactly what I think about your exploration!

Later, I recall one summer when we were running a painting company, so it was challenging for us to be away from the office, but we wanted the kids to feel like they had fun. We gave the three a budget, access to the household desktop and taught them how to use excel. It was a summer olympic year. They created a full week's schedule of home cooked exploration meals, tied around key olympic events we watched together, used the budget for go-carting and other "olympic" events where they earned medals, organized movies, reading at B&N, the works. As you can see, I remember this vacation more vividly than all the ones I planned before and since for them!

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Harrison Moore's avatar

Hey Karena, no, I didn’t know about this! I’m going to DM you…

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Josh Knox's avatar

I think Ramit Sethi talks about whenever he plans a trip everyone who goes is responsible for choosing an activity for one of the days...it's important for everyone on the trip to have stakes and buy into the adventure.

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Josh Knox's avatar

After 6th grade, my city's Catholic school expanded to admit 30 extra 7th graders.

A bunch of my 6th grade public school classmates were going to the Catholic school, so I asked my dad if I could too. He said yes.

During 7th grade, my Catholic school classmates complained constantly about wanting to leave and go back to public school. So at the end of the year I asked my dad if I could go back to public school. He said yes.

Imagine my shock in 8th grade finding out all my friends were still in Catholic school. I thought everyone else had a choice too...

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