In this informal morning vlog, host Katharyn (Kairos) gives a behind‑the‑scenes look at a typical homeschooling day. While preparing breakfast, her son receives a Python coding lesson from her friend Alvin, who also maintains her website, illustrating the value of dual‑skill helpers. Katharyn outlines the day’s loosely planned structure: a history focus on civil‑rights topics, including the Great Depression and César Chávez, supplemented by the Greek‑history podcast “Greeking Out.” She also describes using the video game Civilization VII as a hands‑on diplomacy and decision‑making exercise, having the children role‑play historical figures. The tone is conversational and enthusiastic, emphasizing flexible, multimodal learning and the integration of real‑world tools into homeschooling.
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Good morning from Kairos. As my son would say, we're freestyling it because it is early morning. See that my hair is doing some really interesting things, but I just thought I would share a little bit of behind the scenes because while I was getting breakfast ready, my son is having a coding lesson with my friend Alvin, who actually is doing everything for my website. So dual purpose, and it's amazing, right? Because he can teach coding and then he can also fix my site for me. So think about it. Do you have any friends who have dual skills that you could employ to come and help teach a little bit? It's amazing. I'm going to interrupt that a little bit just so you can see them. How's it going, coders? Are we coding? Yeah. We're having breakfast and what is it you're doing? Python? Yeah, Python. Mmm, you think of FizzBuzz? FizzBuzz? We played FizzBuzz in real life. What? Yeah, with math facts. They had to do multiplication skipping numbers. Ha! He does. Don't let him fool you. Anyway, so I'm gonna let them keep going and I'm gonna go up to my office and actually get ready for for today because I admit that I've spent a lot of time this week on other things, and so I'm not entirely planned today. But I have the main structure. I know our person of interest. I know we're talking about— it's Thursday, we're doing history, and we're really focusing on civil rights. So we've got that. I've got some of the day planned. They're also going to listen to a podcast, which is another amazing tool just to have, right, in your library of things that you can just pull from at any moment. Today they're going to listen to a podcast called "Greeking Out" to talk about Greek history. Anyway, that's it for now. See you later. So he would have been very young. The Great Depression happened right after that, pretty much in the '30s. I can show you some photos of it. Yeah, it was really bad. It was like their children— yes, people died of starvation. Like, it was really bad. So things just went from bad to worse, and, and then there was a drought, and so then there was no food, and so people didn't have money, and then they didn't have food. And so it was like just a— like what they— a term you would use is a perfect storm, meaning so many things had to happen at the right time to contribute to that situation being so bad. So anyway, I'm going to show you a video about César Chávez, and so how he When did he die? He died in 1993. You're right, 1993. Roger. Axel, I did not say— I did not say Dingus Khan. I said Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan. No, I didn't. The guys are about to play Civilization VII, which is a fantastic video game where they need to choose who they're going to be and choose which era of history they're going to be in. Today, let's see if I can turn around, they're going to be Confucius and they've chosen to do— which age are you doing? Exploration age. So when they play the game, I sometimes play with them. Sometimes just ask them who they were, how they made decisions, and if they would make those same decisions again about conquering different tribes and neighbors, or if they would have done something different. They're learning about diplomacy, they're learning about how to keep their populations happy, what, um, crops they would grow. It's really a fantastic lead-in to a lot of history lessons. All right, are Ready? Standard. Standard. Governor.
