The Dog
- If your child claims that the dog ate his homework, you can ask the dog.
- —Guest McKin
Grocery Store
- You can't make it through the grocery produce department without asking your preschooler the name and color of every vegetable, and you can't put your produce in your cart without asking your older student to estimate its weight and verify accuracy.
- —Guest McKin
Reading
- You have children draped all over the furniture... .and they're reading...for the FUN of it!
- —Guest McKin
Microscope
- When a child busts a lip, and after seeing she's okay, you round up some scotch tape to capture some blood and look at it under the microscope!
- —Guest McKin
You might be a homeschooler if...
- you have more bookcases than children and your formal dining room has been renamed "The Classroom."
- —MomofSix2229
You might be a homeschooling family if..
- you get up late and, then realize I need to work on my sentences, is it a sentence or a fragment?
- —Guest Elizabeth C.
Chores are homework
- your six-year-old starts his school day before breakfast by gathering and taking out all the trash in the house.
- —Guest Alexa Smith
Why aren't you in school?
- people look at your 3 year old (some guess her at age 5) and say, "How old are you? Ohhh really?!?!? You will be going to preschool soon!" (as they lookat me and roll their eyes) I expect this will just keep getting worse.
- —nermal64
single-work-at-home-homeschooling-mom
- You consider it to be school work when you all wake up and are under the covers reading The Unofficial Guide to Harry Potter.
- —Guest DeborahD
you might be a homeschooler if
- your house burns down and your child crys because she doesn't have curriculum to do
- —Guest Jswannermartinez
You might be a homeschooling family if..
- ...your trip to the local science store is a day long adventure field trip!
- —justpoo65
You might be a homeschooling family if..
- While eating lunch your 10 yr old daughter bites into her lunchmeat, looks at it, holds it up, and proclaims, "Look, it's shaped like Michigan!" (We don't LIVE in Michigan!!)
- —royronee
wildflowers
- You pull the car over in an abandoned lot to identify the wildflowers growing there.
- —Guest April in Texas
You might be a homeschooling family if..
- While looking at the recent State Fair's butter sculpture of an Ancient Egyptian tomb your children are able to identify the "Weighing of the Heart Ceremony", the game Senet, Anubis, some of the heirogliphyics, the wadget eye, and ponder who the pharaoh may be and discuss a few possibilities, adults standing around begin to ask your children questions. One is overheard saying, "I want to go to school where they go to school!" Alicia in Texas
- —Guest alifrick@verizon.net
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