cricket3 - had to laugh at your post...."but certainly with the grandiose, elaborate plans with no real concept of how complicated/time-consuming the ideas will be"....I remember last year DS7 came up with this plan to build a "fort" after watching one of his first episode's of Phineas and Ferb. He went into his room and drew up his blue prints (like Phineas and Ferb) and then he came out with his plans. He went on to explain how one wall was to be made of bricks, another of recycled wood....the list went on. I remember my brain going into overtime to try to come up with a way to explain to him how our homeowners assoc. would not permit a 2 story brick/wood building with an emergency escape hatch on the roof and a tunnel to be built in our back yard without crushing his "dream" and sending him off crying.
We currently homeschool but man oh man, I can see how the "projects" could get totally out of hand and then the hard part is that you just can't explain to them that maybe they need to come up with a plan b or offer another way of completing it...I like all of the ideas that were shared!
Last edited by Belle; 03/26/10 08:12 PM.
