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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One hallmark of an UMC family that no one else has mentioned yet is that UMC parents are constantly using everyday life to teach their kids about math, science, history, English, and the arts. Constantly. Take the eclipse for example. For the past few weeks DH and I have been talking about the upcoming eclipse, showing our 10 and 12 year old boys interesting science articles on it, talking about how far we would have to drive to see totality (and whether we were willing to make that trade-off), what time it would start, when the peak would be, when it would end, and on and on. We also bought eclipse glasses, explained the science behind how the eclipse happens (the moons size and relative position to the earth). DH took the day off and I worked from home so we could all watch it together. We then posted pics to Facebook showing our little eclipse party. If we weren't currently on a diet, I would have made eclipse cupcakes with chocolate and vanilla icing show all of the phases and then posted pictures of that to Facebook. Etc. etc.

We do stuff like this all the time. Celebrate Pi day (3/14), play endless strategy games with the kids, play the alphabet game (using ancient empires) while we wait for our food at the restaurant. I'm talking seriously nerdy here. I find us insufferable :).[/quote]

You lost me at posting all your junk on Facebook. Not very UMC to want everyone to see your activities. Privacy is a luxury. [/quote]
+1 one thing I've noticed about the UMC is that they're not into posting every little thing on FB. Maybe a handful of vacation photos, maybe an anniversary pic but usually they only post for the big events.[/quote]

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