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Once Upon a Time... Life
Il était une fois… la Vie
1987 · TV series · documentary · 26 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Albert Barillé
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Attention please! Are you ready for an adventurous tour through the human body? With a lot of humour, our physical appearance is being introduced from head to toe along cells and organs in an educational way. The heart, blood, nerves and kidneys, each single one is a miracle which renders life possible.
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> I'd rather my kids have a few gaps in their knowledge than be traumatized by the school system
I went through a normal school system (the first 8 years still during the communist regime in my country, so take that "normal" with a grain of salt), and the gaps in my knowledge are enormous, in some cases subject-wide. I know literally nothing about chemistry, except the bits you learn here and there from TV shows and such. I vaguely remember some kind of equations, but nothing stuck. Biology - everything I know I know from somewhere else, mostly from that TV show with talking blood cells [1]. Surprisingly, I had pretty good grades, but it had nothing to do with knowledge - I was able to quickly scan the textbook before an exam and somehow it was sufficient, but there was no retention, I forgot everything after the exam. I was forced to learn Russian for 4 years and I remember literally nothing, not even the alphabet.
Those are mostly just anecdotes - I am sure that modern schooling can do better than rote memorization in a toxic environment. What I want to say is that motivation, a friendly environment, and fun learning are a lot more important than how well the teacher knows, say, chemistry. It is entirely possible that your kids will retain more knowledge, not less.
I am only talking about elementary school, college was different - I loved it and learned a lot.
[1] Il était une fois... la vie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/
I didn't love biology in school, but I was luckily bored after school and watching "Il était une fois... la vie" and other series. Learning must start with fun. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/
we were listening to radio (with 4 and 6yo) and host mentioned something about prostitutes (regarding TV show)
so my kid ask me what is prostitute?
someone who does sex for money
obvious question followed, what is the sex?
it's exercise done by adults in bed when they wanna have baby or sometimes even when they don't want because they just like the exercise
kids lost interest after that, now tell me, did I lie? by all accounts sex is pretty good calorie burning exercise
btw. I told them already like year before that how is baby done, that penis goes inside vagina, then sperms go from penis to egg inside and there will grow baby, didn't even bother with some bees and other crap, but dunno how much kids remembered because they were not interested about it. we also watched already around that time amazing (dubbed) TV show Il était une fois... la vie (Once Upon a Time... Life) though I think it's more suitable for old children, I liked it when I was in primary school
we still though tell christmas gifts are brought by santa claus/baby jesus