You might be a homeschooling family if...

Fun from the homeschooling forum.

From the homeschooling forum - thanks 'Kat from Texas' for beginning this fun thread for us.

You might be a homeschooling family if...

• ... your car has become a mobile library.   Every time I can't find a book, I go to my car to see if I neglected to bring it in after a trip to my husband's business. 

  How about you? You might be a homeschooling family if... (add your post here)

  Kat from Texas (KATHEBERT)
   

• ... your school bus is a minivan.
  ... you drop everything to watch the robins gathering grass to build their nest and spend the next hour looking up birds, nests, and eggs, which leads to a discussion on other egg-laying animals, that heads into a talk about what exactly alligators eat, that continues into animals living in swamps... Superbug
   
• ... your husband asks you if you have enough library bookbags and you honestly answer no. (I mean, sheesh, we have only four bags!) INDYABBOTT
   
• ... you're always late. (Where are your shoes?? What do you mean you don't want to wear a coat to Miss Cathy's?? No, you can do your 5-minute drills when we get home!) Tim (TQNOHE)
   
• ... the public library has a box with your name on it for your weekly reserved books. MYSKOOL
   
• ... "Hurry, Mama, c'mere, c'mere," is not a medical emergency, but a newly discovered bug crawling on a leaf. I don't panic anymore when I hear that :-) HARMONICREAL
   
• ... you go for lunch at the Japanese Steakhouse and end up teaching your 6 yr old niece a Chemistry Lesson by putting ice on the grill, and explaining...solid to liquid to gas!  Her mom, my sis-in-law scolded her when she saw her putting her piece of ice on the grill (after Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Ron had done several already) and she said,  "But Mom, we're doing chemistry, see ?!" STEPHDBANKS
   
• ... you are in a grocery store with your six year old who is reading signs and a lady comes up, asks how your daughter knew what the sign read and the daughter answers, "Well, with some of the words I used whole language and with some I used phonics, but the little ones were all sight words I learned a long time ago." MRSTWOBEARS
   
• ... your children's favorite present is books.  My 6 yo and I went to Waldenbooks the other day and, because he is really into Egypt and mummies, he wanted a HUGE book on ancient Egypt that he saw on sale.  I bought it for him and he reads it and uses it for reference.  He was as excited to get that book as he would have been for, say, a bike.
  ... you eat corn to demonstrate the digestive system.  OK, you figure it out...hehe.  We actually did this. DONNEL6
   
• ... setting the table for dinner involves finding another place for the cardboard box of baby chicks that were rescued from a nature walk, then  getting up frequently during the meal to monitor the  temperature in the box, interrupting the meal to look for an alternative heat source because the temperature in the box had dropped below 85 degrees. (The hanging lamp over the dining room table had been lowered to the box on the table to keep the chicks warm.  Moving the box, meant leaving their source of heat.) NANCYLAWREN1
   
• ... you pack up a van with 3 other friends and drive through three states to a place that offers used computers, craft and paper supplies, and used office furniture because it is all FREE!  :-) THEDUPREYS
   
• ... your 12 year old gets all excited when somebody brings in a bag of old thrift shop books.
  ... you lunch together and talk about the world news.
  ... a library visit is a treat and your son stays there until the library closes and the ladies send him home.
  ... visiting grandparents far away and school just continues. SEMEJUSTIA

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