You Might be a Home Educator If...

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[SAMWolf]

-- Your friend finds a poisonous snake on her porch and wants to share her fear and all you can think is, wow, what a great unit study that would make.

-- Your kid gets science credit for having a tooth filled at the dentist.

-- You can't decide between Greek and Latin or Greek and Astronomy for 9th grade.

-- Your three year old is jealous of your four year old's reading abilities.

-- Phys. Ed. means riding bikes in the basement.

-- Divinity, By Jove, Yahtzee and Rummy Roots form a significant part of your curriculum.

--Your kids can send e-mails or design e-cards for Language Arts.

-- Your husband planted 250 trees and is in a panic because the crew didn't show up to white wash and water the trees, so you send out the kids with their paintbrushes and call it art, p.e. and science.

-- You reach in your purse to write a check and find only pencils...no pens.

-- Someone asks your daughter her name and she replies--- "Katie...with a K... a hard C sounds like a K...a soft C sounds like an S...a soft G sounds like a J...blah, blah, blah"... and she proceeds to tell them all of the phonics rules she knows.

-- You have a dream involving both babies and homeschool curriculum.

-- All you want for Christmas is a gift certificate to your local book store.

-- Some days you learn as much as your students.

-- You bring your children for an emergency shopping trip during recess.

-- Your children exchange Valentines with the children of your e-mail pen-pals.

-- Your five year old can read and knows the names of a dozen states, but doesn't know who Bart Simpson or the Rugrats are.

-- You're on a first name basis with the UPS Driver, the librarian and the book store owner.

-- Your three year old learns new words from his big sister's spelling lessons.

-- The principal can kiss the teacher without getting sued for harassment

-- You don't get fired for teaching your students about God.

-- You shop for Birthday presents at educational stores.

-- Your backyard doubles as a science lab. So does your kitchen.

-- Your daughter, who is practically a vegetarian, is begging her dad to hunt some starlings so she can pluck them and clean them up to make a "blackbird" pie just like the Ingalls family

-- Your preschoolers learn to count by helping to make rosaries.

-- You can throw your school stuff in a box and your children in a van and accompany your husband on a business trip.

-- Your formal dining room looks like a combination library and office, with maps and timelines all over the walls.

-- Your children dress as Laura Ingalls, Charlemagne or Mother Teresa for Halloween.

-- You go to All Saints Day parties instead of Halloween parties.

-- You have mold growing in your fridge...on purpose.

-- Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference.

--You can't make it through a movie without pointing out all the historical errors and deviations from the book.

-- You step on math manipulatives in your predawn stumble to the bathroom.

-- You can't make it through the produce section of your grocery store without asking your preschooler the name and color of every fruit and vegetable.

-- Whenever you see a group of families during school hours, especially if the girls are wearing dresses and smiling, you suspect that you've stumbled into some other homeschoolers.

-- You'd rather buy books than clothes.

-- You plan your family's vacation around the nearest homeschool conference.

-- You live in a one-house schoolroom.

[PortugeeJoe]

You Might be a Home Educator If...

if your first gradr can read and
make change for a dollar and
tell time with an analog clock

[PortugeeJoe]

You Might be a Home Educator If...

if your first grader can read and
make change for a dollar and
tell time with an analog clock

[kinsman redeemer]

This business of who should and should not have children reminds me of a little story...

I was working as a draftsman in the mid-70s. In a large room, several of us would work face-down at light tables for 8 hours. The entry-level work required at least a bachelor's degree.

All was quiet - most of the time as we concentrated on aerial photographs and color separates.

The silence was broken one afternoon by a young lady who worked in front of me when she suddenly observed,

"When I think that you have to have a college education to do this and any d@Mn fool can be a parent!!"

I will never forget my sudden enlightenment.

Russ

[RJayneJ]

That is a good quote and so true. When my youngest was still in school, I told his teacher that if I had left it in their hands to educate my child he would come out an illiterate.

[Marie]

- Someone asks you what grade your child is in and you can't give them an answer. (I love that one!)