The part that I neglected to mention about the time investment into "unit study boxes" is that THOSE were rifled, pillaged actually-- and discarded nearly as quickly as every other educational item I had tried.
So my admonition to "don't do that" was about
both complete curriculum purchases
and investing hours in making cute little shoebox games and what have you.
I desperately wanted to be that kind of homeschooling mom... but my DD wouldn't tolerate it very well.
Loose collections of things which were highly open-ended worked pretty well as "learning boxes." Just not in the way that I generally envisioned. Or for as long as I'd hoped.
