Last week was... stressful! While I waited with the rest of the country as the country took an entire week to open Schrodinger's box, I found the strangest way to calm down: watching these two delightful British men solve absurd sudoku puzzles on Youtube.

I know, that sounds crazy, right? But seriously, check this video out - it's the one that got me hooked. I found it from a Twitter friend, and 20 minutes later I was cheering like the crowd in Rudy, watching a man place numbers in a 9x9 grid.

In just a minute I'm going to share an amazing set of lessons from Math for Love. But first, a bit of a rant.

This has been a weird and, for many of us, terrible week or two. Please don't focus on all the ways in which you are "falling short" in helping your kids with homeschooling. There are things that schools can do that you simply don't have the time, experience, and supplies to achieve.

BUT ALSO

There is so much you can do at home that a school simply cannot do. You can give your kids tons of individual attention. You can turn lectures into conversations. You can follow their interests and take a wild left turn into anything they want to learn about!

And most importantly, you can have fun spending time with your kids. In fact, that's the most important thing any of us can be doing right now. We might be cooped up with our kids for a long time, and it's going to be easier if those kids still like seeing us in the morning. Even if that means that the (hastily assembled) packet of worksheets from your kids' school doesn't get finished on time.

Ok, rant over. If you remain unconvinced, I have good news - I'm about to share a bunch of lessons that you can try out with your kids.

But I reserve the right to rant again next week...