I hear you, Rebecca! I like to think of unit studies as a trail of crumbs, where one thing leads to the next, and you continue to toss out crumbs as long as your kiddo continues to pick them up. This feels more doable to me than trying to get books and games and documentaries and all the possibilities together all at once.

I do think there is real value in having siblings learn about another sibling’s interest, even if it isn’t their own. It broadens their education and their worldview, and also reminds them, in a healthy way, that not everything in homeschooling revolves around them…which is a helpful real-world lesson! It’s definitely an art and not a prescriptive science.

I hope this helps a bit!