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LOL! We did some school yesterday too!

Yeah, one of those home-school tyrants. The nine year old finished her last problem in a self-taught High School geometry course yesterday.

I'm relentless. After math class, I sent the eight-year-old upstairs and made her read the Iliad (in rhyming verse, her choice). Then I really ground it in by making her sister read a sixth-grade reader... from 1901. Cooper, Longfellow, Tennyson, Buckley, Swift, Dickens, Patrick Henry, Emerson, Kipling, Ben Franklin, Irving, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Holmes, Browning, Shelley, Walter Scott, Milton, and Shakespere... a Sixth Grade Reader.

Later, I finished them off for the day by making it clear what what we celebrate on Independence Day:

It is the guts of a bunch of guys who will sit down in a room, write down their ideals, and then SIGN THE PAPER. These great men were spitting in the face of the most powerful empire on earth, risking EVERYTHING in the process for nothing more than principle. Then we went on to why the second paragraph in the Declaration is so essential to ALL of our liberties, especially that phrase, "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."

When rights don't come from God as unalienable, all rights become negotiable.

You children are fortunate to have you as their father and teacher!

"When rights don't come from God as unalienable, all rights become negotiable."

Fabulous statement. Quote of the day!