When I first discovered that my 8-year-old kid believed that the adventures of Odysseus were the actual history of Ancient Greece, I panicked and bought him a stack of children\'s history books.
And when it comes to history, they learn from stories, not from dense paragraphs ab.
Kids like stories. and then for the Disney Channel...
He asked for candy...
He yawned.
I sat by his side as he started reading about the class structure of Athens and the economic underpinnings of the Greek polis.
When I first discovered that my 8-year-old kid believed that the adventures of Odysseus were the actual history of Ancient Greece, I panicked and bought him a stack of children\'s history books