Conversations.

In theory we do a lot of our learning through conversations. Well, that and me reading classics to them, which is pretty much what we've been doing for the past 6-8 months or so.
Today though we talked. A lot. Some of it was with both girls, but quite a bit was just me and K, as M was at a friend's for tea.
In the course of a couple of fairly short car trip and about 20 minutes looking at our new big atlas we managed to get from the 4th July and American independence to politics in Northern Ireland, via the British Empire, the Commonwealth, Falklands War, time zones, terrorism, tides and gravity, looking up places and finding them in an atlas and more besides.
It was so lovely to hear K's black and white take on things. As far empires are concerned, she is firmly on the side of independence and thus when I said about Ireland was under British rule but now only Northern Ireland is, but that some people want not to be she was on the republican side. When I pointed out that some Northern Irish people want to stay as part of the UK, she thought they should move house, so we unpicked that and she conceded that it was a bit more complicated than she'd thought.