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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids (boy & girl) are fine doing the same thing like playground, pool, soccer, ballet etc. I am the mom that is bored and want to get out of house if I take PTO to take care of kids or do something fun on weekend. I have my own interests, but I don't think they are not fit for my kids at these ages yet or they find it boring. I don't want to leave them at home with me out of house, and I don't mind doing kid things as long as it is not always the same things over and over again.

In the past, I have taken them to do things I like, like ice skating, gardening, nature hike etc. May I ask if there are any kid family activity or places that are related to GIS, radio station, studying cloud/weather pattern, stargazing, color, geology studying rocks, painting protrait etc? I used to intensively studying art, rock, geography and GIS in my young days. Kids do not appreciate boring art museum or me spending hours looking into rocks, soil, maps or drawing. I want to spend time with them together. I am the kind of mom that put kids priority ahead of me. We are in dmv area.[/quote]

When my friend who is an artist takes kids to art museums (I've been with her for this), she asks them a bajillion questions about what they see and how they are looking. It's not couched in art-world terms, but it leads kids to think like artists. She learned it from her own mom (also an artist). I marveled at it when I saw it.

If you want your kids to catch your interests, you have to take them where they are and teach them to see. Take them to the different art Smithsonians and really [b]look[/b] at the art. Take the to Natural History and go through gems and minerals and follow their fancy, but also pause to try to let them catch the wonder in yours. Unfortuantely you'll have to start by focusing on sharing wonder rather than reading the plaques. You'll have to take it down to kid level. But you can share it, and when they're old enough they'll the ones sharing wonder with you.[/quote]

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