I was driving some of my boys home from a birthday party the other night and somehow we got to talking about some of the fun activites we used to do at the AWANA group hubby and I ran in our old town years ago.  They remembered movie nights, all-nighters at the church, dress up nights, craft nights, prayer puppies, all the fun stuff.  Since we are not attending AWANA anymore, they commented
"Mom, we need to do more fun things in our TOG co-op" (our history/literature co-op)
"Well, we are going on a field trip to DC to the National Gallery of Art.  They are having a special exhibit on Pompeii that will be amazing and right around the time we will be studying Greece and Rome."
"Greece! (protests)  we've already studied Greece!"
"Yes, but that was early Greece, the Mycenaeans, the Trojans.  Now we will be moving into the golden age of Greece.  We will be learning about:
- the Olympics
- the beginnings of philosophy
- Socrates
- Plato."
"Huh?"
"Well, the ideas of the Greeks still linger in our society today so it's important to study them."
"Ok, but I still don't get what play-doh has to do with it!'
My oldest picked up on what was going on started laughing.  I still didn't get it, I thought I was going to have to go into a detailed explaination of who Plato was.
"Mom, he thinks you are talking about the philosophy of play-doh - as in clay!"
My boys think I have taught some crazy things throughout our homeschool years and rolled their eyes at many of my ideas, but the philosophy of play-doh?
No wonder he was confused!