It was all going well, until: > musical instruments (real ones and multicultural ones) Er, what exactly is a multicultural musical instrument? Like a bongo dr

It was all going well, until: > musical instruments (real ones and multicultural ones) Er, what exactly is a multicultural musical instrument? Like a bongo drum? One of them 'ethnic' doodads? Just encourage your kids to read and they'll educate themselves. No extra work required! Once they get the bug they can read about history (in a better way than school ever could), science and adventure to their heart's content. I think books, lego and a gameboy (grant me some concessions, we didn't leave Windows 95 until about 2004) were all I needed to get through childhood.