learning is actually supposed to be fun!

YES!!!!! It is fun! The difficulty for my children is the "why" question. It's hard sometimes to explain WHY they must learn. The typical adult never uses lines or line segments in every-day life, so it's a legitimate question "Why bother learning this stuff?" When I was young and thought of math as a PUZZLE to solve, it became a lot more fun for me. The "why" for me became "Because it's fun, that's why!" !BBH