bjackson

Okay, let me rephrase the question more intelligently: Tell me some of the
wonderful ways you are observing your children's natural love of learning
and self-directed activities and facilitating their learning by answering
questions, providing resources, etc. Your responses have been so
encouraging and reassuring to me as I only know public school moms and they
are interested in totally different aspects of their children's lives.
I have been home with my children and unschooling all their lives (almost 6
years). My oldest e-mails with her grandma (using "kid spelling"). I read
to them a ton of children's books and are halfway through the Little House
series. They play outside a lot and have taken to frog and worm hunting a
lot lately and observing frogs swim in our bathtub: ) My five-year-old has
her own little business selling eggs and my four-year-old sells fruit and
jam that she helps me make. My three-year-old son is a dinosaur fanatic and
asks a lot of questions about them. Yesterday, he announced "Mama, when I
grow up, I'm going to be a pro bull rider." Yikes! The girls and I are
experimenting with sewing, cross stitch, latch hook, and crochet. We live
on 11 acres in Arkansas with a catfish pond, a hay meadow, and lots of
fruit trees. My kids have learned things about animals, farming, and
gardening that I didn't know at age 20.
We have a setting hen and I could swear she's been setting for 3 weeks.
Isn't that the incubation period? Now I'm off on a tangent : ) Sue, your
lives on your farm sounds awesome! ---Becky

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> We have a setting hen and I could swear she's been setting for 3 weeks.
> Isn't that the incubation period? Now I'm off on a tangent : ) Sue, your
> lives on your farm sounds awesome! ---Becky

Thanks Becky, your life sounds pretty good too.

Yes a chicken's incubation period is three weeks, but don't give up
on her yet, sometimes they can take a little longer. We have one
hen that hatched 9 chicks in the new extension built onto the side
of the house, she found some insulation on a table in there
amongst other building materials and made her nest, one other hen
shared the nest for a few days so was able to get two of her
babies hatched by another hen. It's great watching a mother hen
with her little ones, they are so fierce, our's even chases off the
geese and turkeys.




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