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You might be a homeschooling parent if....
- Mar 5, 2009 at 1:55 PM
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You might be a homeschooling parent if... (these are my own)
1) you count chores towards the required amount of time for education (home ec).
2) a trip to the grocery store is considered math class.
3) your 5 year old wants a birthday cake in the shape of earth (including all the continents, properly labelled) because that is what is really cool!
4) you go to a birthday party and count it as a school day because it was science themed (and the exploding volcano was a lot of fun!).
5) you consider starting schoolwork before lunch to be cruel and unusual punishment.
6) you let your kids stay up until midnight so you can have a lesson in astronomy.
7) you will do anything so your child understands a concept (including being completely silly, singing, dancing, and labelling your arms and legs with magic marker to learn where the muscles/bones are and what they are called).
8) you think the days when it snows are the best for staying inside and catching up on schoolwork.
9) you take your vacation in the spring or fall to avoid the "tourist" season, traffic, long lines and the rush.
10) your kindergartener knows their ABC's, numbers to 100, the names of all the continents (and can find them on a map), at least the names of half the states in the United States (and where they are on a map), what DNA is and can also tell you that it is shaped like a double-helix and knows what a double-helix is, tells you that dinner is not acceptable because it is missing something from the starch group, oh... you get the point.
11) you spend half of your parenting life in the car driving children to various sports practices, dance lessons, art classes, homeschool meetings, homeschool field trips, music lessons, play dates, you get the idea.
12) your child knows how to write a research paper by the time he/she is starting high school.
13) the library is your kids favorite place to go.
14) you don't need a doctors note to excuse little Timmy from classes.
15) your children don't pester you for the biggest, brightest, newest, coolest piece of technology available.
16) you laugh when you hear the words socialization and homeschoolers in the same sentence (while running out the door to take Suzy to dance class, Ben to a birthday party, and Louise to soccer practice).
1) you count chores towards the required amount of time for education (home ec).
2) a trip to the grocery store is considered math class.
3) your 5 year old wants a birthday cake in the shape of earth (including all the continents, properly labelled) because that is what is really cool!
4) you go to a birthday party and count it as a school day because it was science themed (and the exploding volcano was a lot of fun!).
5) you consider starting schoolwork before lunch to be cruel and unusual punishment.
6) you let your kids stay up until midnight so you can have a lesson in astronomy.
7) you will do anything so your child understands a concept (including being completely silly, singing, dancing, and labelling your arms and legs with magic marker to learn where the muscles/bones are and what they are called).
8) you think the days when it snows are the best for staying inside and catching up on schoolwork.
9) you take your vacation in the spring or fall to avoid the "tourist" season, traffic, long lines and the rush.
10) your kindergartener knows their ABC's, numbers to 100, the names of all the continents (and can find them on a map), at least the names of half the states in the United States (and where they are on a map), what DNA is and can also tell you that it is shaped like a double-helix and knows what a double-helix is, tells you that dinner is not acceptable because it is missing something from the starch group, oh... you get the point.
11) you spend half of your parenting life in the car driving children to various sports practices, dance lessons, art classes, homeschool meetings, homeschool field trips, music lessons, play dates, you get the idea.
12) your child knows how to write a research paper by the time he/she is starting high school.
13) the library is your kids favorite place to go.
14) you don't need a doctors note to excuse little Timmy from classes.
15) your children don't pester you for the biggest, brightest, newest, coolest piece of technology available.
16) you laugh when you hear the words socialization and homeschoolers in the same sentence (while running out the door to take Suzy to dance class, Ben to a birthday party, and Louise to soccer practice).
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