Learning by Teaching

It's an old joke among home-schoolers that we are all addicted to buying books and other things that might assist us in educating our children. Often those materials prove useful. However, very often they aren't what we thought they might be and they sit on a bookshelf somewhere collecting dust.

Madeleine asked the other day if she could use a few of those unused books to teach Lexie, her favorite doll. What Madeleine doesn't know-- and what I am not going to tell her-- is that the grammar book she's using to teach Lexie is the same level that Madeleine herself would be using were we still using that grammar text; so while she's teaching Lexie she's actually teaching herself as well.