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Originally Posted by wolf
... and golly weren't things so much better before the xtians conquered all of Europe?
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Kids are fun and entertaining for different reasons at different stages in their lives. [Yes, this will connect up in a moment]
One of the things I like about the current phase is that my kids are getting old enough to be studying more interesting stuff. And since I'm the one who helps them study for tests, I get to remember how all this stuff works. The oldest is getting into algebra and both are studying some neat stuff in science.
But the stuff I'm finding the most fun is their social studies. The youngest just finished working through the Tigris/Euphrates "cradle of civilization" stuff. The more I read about early history, the more convinced I am that the whole of history from hunter/gather to yesterday's newspaper is one big long power struggle.
It's comic in a way. Once we discovered/developed farming we had more time. And so we had time to develop the arts -- and tools of war.