One summer, I built an entire learning adventure around Star Wars.
Not a curriculum.
Not a checklist.
An adventure.
Workbooks were delivered by someone dressed as the Mandalorian.
Light saber training sessions became lessons in focus, movement, and imagination.
Every math problem, every reading challenge, every moment woven into a world my child already loved.
What I learned was simple but life-changing: Special interests are AMAZING doorways.
When we meet someone where their wonder already lives, learning becomes lighter.
Not easier, always; but fuller, richer, more alive.
I think about that summer often.
How powerful it is to build with someone’s joy, not against it. How it shaped the future of not only my child, but our whole family.
Today, I’m reminding myself:
– Lauren Janeen
Learning doesn’t have to look traditional to be meaningful.
Curiosity is a curriculum all its own.
QUESTION:
What world does someone you love already live in?
And what would happen if you stepped inside with them?