In talking again with my wife about this post, she thinks I'm giving short shrift to the role of RPGs in our homeschool environment.
She doesn't see our gaming as a supplement to the core curriculum that she focuses on. Instead, she sees it as a curriculum in its own right, and one that develops organically, without a whole lot of structure. The way she described it reminded me of unschooling.
It's definitely a different way of looking at it than how I have been presenting it in this blog. I have talked about RPGs supplementing the curriculum, or even being "part of" the curriculum, but she sees it as a second curriculum, and one that isn't as tightly controlled as the more traditional schooling she provides in the classroom setting.
That's a more accurate way of describing what we're doing, I think.
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