You know you are a homeschooler when...

[kewb]

the first thing you do after removing a stinger from your dd's hand is examine it and start looking up what kind of bee it was.

[Tohru]

:lol:

 

....and when your kids say they don't want to participate in an extracurricular activity or field trip because it will interfere with their school work.

[m0mmaBuck]

or when your 4-yo tells you she wants to be Boudica when she grows up.

[Tohru]

rofl! I had to look that up. Boudica.

Good for her!

[kalanamak]

Your kid's favorite president is Grant, because of his first name.

 

When you can't wait to tell a friend your child used the word plausible in a sentence.

 

Your child has a laminated poster of all the animals commonly found in the Puget Sound, and he begs to go to the beach and scavenge and fish for a specimen he hasn't gotten yet.

 

At a party where adults are getting a little adult, the hostess asks if she can park him in front of a TV upstairs, and 20 minutes later he comes down and whispers "it was some guy who thought he was a sponge and it was BORING".

[Indygirl]

When you are more excited than embarrassed when your boys are standing outside a bathroom stall at Kohls and they are correctly sounding out nap-kin tam-pon!

[Belacqua]

 

At a party where adults are getting a little adult, the hostess asks if she can park him in front of a TV upstairs, and 20 minutes later he comes down and whispers "it was some guy who thought he was a sponge and it was BORING".

 

OK, I just scared the chimney sweep with my burst of laughter.

[kewb]

When you are more excited than embarrassed when your boys are standing outside a bathroom stall at Kohls and they are correctly sounding out nap-kin tam-pon!

 

That made me laugh out loud.

 

For anyone who was wondering-my dd was stung by a honeybee. I told my dd that I was sad that there was one less honeybee to make delicious honey. She responded with "Mom, it was on me and it stung me. I am not sad at all."

[cathmom]

when you leave Swedish class and stop at the store to buy oranges for the butterflies you are raising...

[Garga]

when you put the dead mouse you found in a glass jar so you can watch it decompose.

[VBoulden]

when you put the dead mouse you found in a glass jar so you can watch it decompose.

 

Really?! :D

[VBoulden]

When you leave a home school co-op and your four year old says she meet a new friend... When you ask her, "What was his name?" She says, "Christopher Columbus."

 

Hmmm.... :glare:

[Mom-ninja.]

when you put the dead mouse you found in a glass jar so you can watch it decompose.

 

Yuck! You win for grossness factor.

 

 

 

....when you have your ds prepare dinner in the crock pot and consider it part of school.

[Indygirl]

when you put the dead mouse you found in a glass jar so you can watch it decompose.

 

That is so gross and very cool all at the same time! I hope the lid is tight on that glass jar.

[cjbeach]

You pile your linens elsewhere so you can use your linen closet for books. And more books. And more books.

 

Your kids approach you in a bookstore with a book and ask "Is this a twaddle book?":tongue_smilie:

[Jean in Newcastle]

When all the kids in the neighborhood come to line up and see the bird skeleton your dd has in her room. (I'm surprised that she didn't charge admission:))

[stephanier.1765]

When librarians not only know you by name but by the sound of your voice, causing them to bring out the books you have on hold from the back room.

[Catherine]

When, at a family gathering, I ask the kids, "Guess what we're doing today?" and my nine yo jumps up and says, "Going to a museum!!! Yay!!!"

[clarkacademy]

when your six year old wants to sleep with a pancreas model and your son can make a shrinking balloon kidney. The most famous was when the neighbor kid had lice my son wanted to see one under the microscope!

[PinkTulip]

Your 7-year-old son describes himself as "a voracious reader who likes to cogitate!"

[bookfiend]

when your friends bring you a hermit crab from their last day at the beach and you let it live in your best tupperware on the kitchen counter.

[Mejane]

... your kids send you emails about new animal species, planets, and other "really cool" discoveries. :)

[delaney]

How about stealing the kitchen table for your classroom so now you all sit around on cushions at the coffee table in the kitchen nook to eat (because the dining room table is full of school stuff too).

[happyWImom]

When your 6 year old ds says "Can we make a mold garden?", and is practically giddy when told yes!

 

Then, he called his "Nana", and asked her "Do you have any mold on anything that I can have?"

[phathui5]

That's funny.

 

Earlier this week, dd found a big spider in her room that had laid eggs on some fabric. This led to reading about spiders in an animal book, watching videos about spiders and insect reproduction on cosmeo and cutting out the piece of fabric with the eggs to put in a container.

[elegantlion]

When you child says that Latin is easier to learn than English. :D

[cjbeach]

Oh my gosh, this thread made me think of the mama here who totally rocked her dc's party... a shark party I think, where they dissected baby sharks at the party?!?! I have the link to the company bookmarked somewhere in my favorites.

Love it.

Homeschool families are so stinkin' cool. :001_smile:

[Kates]

When you read this thread to your child and he nods and says, "well, yeah."

 

When ds watches a survival show or reads "My Side of the Mountain" and asks "to do that".

 

When instead of asking what's for dinner, he looks up recipes and gives me a shopping list.

 

When, upon getting a frog for a pet, asks "When do we get to dissect it?"

 

When organizing a group of Cub Scouts into a game at Day Camp, divided them up into Athenians and Spartans and had them reenact a battle with Nerf javelins :) (His was the game no one wanted to rotate out of!)

[Tiberia]

...when someone asks your child what fun things she's going to do during your week-long school break:

 

"Um, I hope we get to make a model of the Great Pyramid of Giza! And we're going to put a little Cheops mummy in it."

[EthiopianFood]

You agree to attend a three-hour weekly homeschool play group because your child really wants friends, even though you are an introvert with social anxiety who is drained by groups and really just wants a day with nowhere to go. :tongue_smilie:

[Miss Sherry]

That made me laugh out loud.

 

For anyone who was wondering-my dd was stung by a honeybee. I told my dd that I was sad that there was one less honeybee to make delicious honey. She responded with "Mom, it was on me and it stung me. I am not sad at all."

Oh, that's funny, :lol: but, poor thing, ouch :tongue_smilie:

[Miss Sherry]

When your neighbor says "Ewwww, why are you raising insects ?" So my children can learn about the life cycle of butterflies.

 

When someone asks your child "What grade are you in ?" and they answer "I don't know ." :lol:

 

When it's a holiday and your children suddenly notice that they have been doing school that day but the neighbor kids had public school off. :D Your kids whine about it and you say "We don't go by their schedule" hahahaha

 

But then all the neighbor kids are in public school and you and your kids are at the beach.I just love it when the beach isn't crowded with you know who (because they're in school and we're not LOL) . :001_smile::001_smile:

 

When you come home one day and your teenage daughter has turned your front room into an art studio, and it stays that way for months. But she does turn out some cool art projects you get to hang on the wall.:001_unsure::001_rolleyes:

 

You spend $300 a month on toilet paper because your kids don't go to public school and use their toilet paper all day.

Well, that one is an exaggeration. Thankfully.:w00t:

 

You know you're a homeschooler when you are the first family in the new development to have to have that storage tank in the front yard that holds the sewage before it goes out to the sewage system in the street pumped out because your family eats a lot of rice and beans and uses the most toilet paper - instead of the public schools toilet paper - and the repair man is really irritated and says "This is the worst I've ever seen so soon......" but, Oh, not to worry, it's really because the angle the piping was installed is not right and has to be fixed, not because you are some freaky homeschool family that uses more toilet paper and eats more rice and beans than anyone else in the neighborhood. Oh good, what a relief, maybe we are normal. :tongue_smilie:

But you are out of toilet paper so you pack all the kids in the van and go to the store to get more toilet paper but it is only 1:00 o'clock so the cashier says to your kids "Why aren't you in school today ? " "Ummmm, because we are out of toilet paper."

Edited October 8, 2010 by Miss Sherry

[Mejane]

You agree to attend a three-hour weekly homeschool play group because your child really wants friends, even though you are an introvert with social anxiety who is drained by groups and really just wants a day with nowhere to go.

 

You go shark-tagging with your homeschool group even though you are afraid of open water and terrified of sharks. :scared:

[FriedClams]

You're at the doctor's office and the nurse asks your kid what grade they are in, and they shrug and reply, "I don't know."

 

LOL!!!

 

I told the nurse that we'd rather error on ignorance of grades than arrogance. ;)

[chickenpatty]

When it is 10:38 a.m. and you are all still sitting at the breakfast table, b/c they keep begging for "just one more chapter" of the book you are reading aloud to them.

 

Reading aloud to them is my absolute favorite part of homeschooling. :001_smile:

[Belacqua]

When your husband breaks his nose and your kid suggests stuffing it with peppercorns, "just like they did with Rameses II." Then again, that probably isn't a product of homeschool so much as it is just being a boy.

[WarriorMama]

...your math-happy first grader starts explaining prime numbers to anyone she can get to listen.

 

(Okay, that may be less a product of homeschooling and more a product of spending too much time with her math-geek uncle...:tongue_smilie:)

[Rivka]

When your four-year-old says lovingly, "Mom, when you die, I'm going to get some people to help me make a mummy out of you."

 

And when you protest, "I don't want you to take my brain out through my nose!", she responds with firmness, love, and a great deal of finality: "But that's the way they do it."

 

Case closed.

 

 

Also: when your 18-month-old shouts out "Simile!" during a read-aloud. Not because he knows what it means, but because he knows that's the kind of thing people do when they're being read to.

[HollyBee]

When your kids make a book club in the basement storage room. Said book club allows members to read books, then write about them, or make models based on them.

 

If *I* suggested writing about books, or making models of scenes out of books, they would pitch a fit.

 

:001_huh:

[WarriorMama]

Also: when your 18-month-old shouts out "Simile!" during a read-aloud. Not because he knows what it means, but because he knows that's the kind of thing people do when they're being read to.

 

:lol: My toddler shouts out numbers during math lessons. "Eighteen! Seven! Three-ten-two!"

[EthiopianFood]

You go shark-tagging with your homeschool group even though you are afraid of open water and terrified of sharks. :scared:

 

Oooo! Pretending you're not completely afraid of bugs so you don't pass on the fear to your kids and ruin any chance of thorough nature study! Although I think you win with the sharks, because a shark can actually HURT you. :001_huh:

[kalanamak]

When your child comes screaming in the room in the most agitated state of agitation you've seen in him (and you are sure the kitchen is on fire) to tell you Haydn's Surprise Symphony is on the radio, and if you don't hurry, you'll miss the DUH_DUH!

[MamaBirdX7]

When, during your daily walk, you see a dead ferret on the road and then run home to load the kids up in the van so they can see it before anyone runs over it again.

 

When your children know you so well that they finish your sentences.

 

When at least once a day said children make you laugh so hard you can't breathe.

[Mom-ninja.]

When your child comes screaming in the room in the most agitated state of agitation you've seen in him (and you are sure the kitchen is on fire) to tell you Haydn's Surprise Symphony is on the radio, and if you don't hurry, you'll miss the DUH_DUH!

 

 

Love it.