Twigs Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Sometimes my husband gives my daughter a writing assignment for a punishment. He might tell her to write something 25 times. She will always number her assignment using Roman numerals. :smilielol5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 One morning someone called the house very early, and it woke everyone up. My son staggered out of his room and said, "quick, someone give me an expository paragraph on why we are up this early." :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leanna Tomlinson Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 You know your kids are homeschooled when.... they are all excited that Monday is Pi day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 :lol: I think you could peg mine because they don't know who Justin Bieber is. Ha! Us too! Isn't it a relief? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 DD, then 6, received a plastic pony in a party grab bag. She named it Bucephalus. At her age I probably would have named it Midnight or something like that. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I was having trouble making regular choc. chip cookies, they were coming out really flat, and some ran into others and formed big flat cookies..my kids named them "pangea cookies" they are all excited about pi day, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Sometimes my husband gives my daughter a writing assignment for a punishment. He might tell her to write something 25 times. She will always number her assignment using Roman numerals. My dd6 has started to number her spelling words using Roman numerals.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devotional Soul Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 LOL! I'm imagining Zeus singing 'Greece Lightning'. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbeach Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 We have a LOT of neighborhood children. I constantly hear my children correct others' grammar and heaven forbid they should actually pull out chalk and start writing on the sidewalk. My ds gets a little twitchy with grammar and spelling mistakes. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 LOL! I'm imagining Zeus singing 'Greece Lightning'. :lol: :lol::lol::lol: We have a LOT of neighborhood children. I constantly hear my children correct others' grammar and heaven forbid they should actually pull out chalk and start writing on the sidewalk. My ds gets a little twitchy with grammar and spelling mistakes. :001_huh: My kids come in a with slang and say, Mom, where did these kids learn to speak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitascool Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 MY 9yo was in a play last week. He was a goose. The director kept calling the seven geese "gooses". We've taught him not to openly correct adults...so he would mumble under his breath "It's geese. Don't you know it's geese?" or "I can't believe she doesn't know it's geese not gooses, moose not meeses, mice not mouses." He got up this morning singing, "The geese are goosing the gaggle of people who don't know the difference between geese and gooses." :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamee Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 DD, then 6, received a plastic pony in a party grab bag. She named it Bucephalus. At her age I probably would have named it Midnight or something like that. ;) This just reminded me. DS did his boat for Raingutter Regatta, the Argos--boy I hope I got that right.:001_huh: He took his legos and proceeded to tie Odysseyus to the mast and had other lego dudes with cotton in their ears! It was great. For Halloween, the little guy wasn't just "any" cyclops, but Polyphemus (hope I spelled that one right too.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 DS gave his date of birth as January 19, anno domini 2005 to his gymnastics coach. They think the initials in the card game "BS" stand for Boy Scouts. They say "drat" when frustrated. They listen to a long discussion from their tae kwon do instructor on the prospects of the Raiders for the upcoming season and then ask him if that is a football team. (Then they suggest that he listen to some St. Xavier high school games on the radio because they are such a wonderful team. That's our family's high school for several generations and the only football team they know.) They interupt adults at museums who are explaining things to their little kids to explain that "well, actually..." what the adult was saying was totally wrong. (And usually the kid is correct.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 When adults your child is speaking to have to ask for definitions for the "big" words they use. DS made up a "riddle" He asked "Where am I?" then said the Hickory, Dickory, Dock, rhyme. He ended up being in Big Ben. Also what do you call a butterfly who lost its wings? A walk-away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 They can recite the Saxon kings of England, but have trouble with their own address. (That's been remedied, btw) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Laughing about Caesar. My boys just started talking about their dad's b-day and the Ides of March. They proceeded to give their little sibs the details :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Your daughter tells her cheerleading coach that she has a cheer to teach the group-and proceeds to teach a group of 4-6 yr old girls the sentence patterns from Latin For Children ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 DD, then 6, received a plastic pony in a party grab bag. She named it Bucephalus. At her age I probably would have named it Midnight or something like that. ;) My 6 yr old named a stuffed dragon Dianthus, and seems to delight in explaining that it is a genus of flower, including carnations, and that the word comes from the Greek words Dios and Anthos, and therefore the name means "God Flower". I figure she'll be set if she's ever on Jeopardy. I'm not sure where else that information would actually be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 They get asked if they get homework and stare blankly. I later told them what homework was, neither of them had heard the word! My daughter then requested some, so I made her a short homework assignment. I don't think she actually did her homework, though, I think we both forgot about it. Who knows where it is. (And no, we do not have a dog to blame it on, we move too often to have a dog.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 They get asked if they get homework and stare blankly. I later told them what homework was, neither of them had heard the word! My daughter then requested some, so I made her a short homework assignment. I don't think she actually did her homework, though, I think we both forgot about it. Who knows where it is. (And no, we do not have a dog to blame it on, we move too often to have a dog.) My oldest was horrified when we explained that school kids have homework. All day at school, and then work at home, too? That's ridiculous! We completely agree. We use the word homework and schoolwork interchangably, because, really, either one is accurate. And mine... ...When your child tries to read a book set in a school and doesn't understand any of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidlit Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Last night, on the way home from church, my 6 year old dd was reading th DK Human Body Encyclopedia (I think that's the name of it--it's not right in front of me). Lulu loves to share interesting facts that she has read, so she said something to the effect of "Ooh, let me read you this about urine! It's so awesome!" :001_smile: The book had already been in "time out" on the way to church because the girls were fighting over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 My child's favorite songs are about bubonic plague and the fates of Henry VIII's wives. At 3, if we put the radio on any station that wasn't classical or jazz, she would become upset and say "That's not music!" She wanted to rename our horse Bucephalus, and likes to pretend she's afraid of her shadow, like he was. In public. She is still sad I didn't buy her a plush red blood cell we saw at a store a month ago. Most kids would never have wanted it in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 ...when your 5yo dd plays "mommy" by creating a grid lesson planner and teaches her dollies out of her old ETC workbooks.:001_smile: (When she sticks her hair up in a bun with a Ticonderoga #2, I'm calling the therapist.:tongue_smilie::lol:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 She is still sad I didn't buy her a plush red blood cell we saw at a store a month ago. Most kids would never have wanted it in the first place. They are neat. I think I gave my sister flesh-eating bacteria & the black plague a few Christmases ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristenR Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Love those !! Thanks for the link! :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiana Daniels Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Your child is obviously homeschooled when.... ....they argue over which they prefer: classical or ecclesiastical Latin :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwg Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 when he acts like it is a travesty of justice whenever he has to leave the house before 8. :001_huh: when his cousin is calling friends to find out teacher assignments and he is completely confused. That the classes change each year-not just teachers- had not occurred to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahRah Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 (edited) My oldest was horrified when we explained that school kids have homework. All day at school, and then work at home, too? That's ridiculous! DS6 had a similar reaction when he learned what homework was - our neighbor's kids have to do homework before they can come out and play and DS was like, why do they have to do more school work if they spent the day at school? He was also shocked to learn that same kids ride the schoolbus 1-hour each way to school.....the school he'd go to if he were enrolled.....the school that is literally just 2 miles from the house! His reaction to hearing about their bus ride was what a waste of time - that's two more hours! ETA: He also doesn't think it's so great to go to school if you have to get up while it's still dark, just to catch the bus in time for that 1-hour ride....he's usually still asleep when the neighbor's kids have already been "in school" for an hour or two! Edited March 15, 2011 by RahRah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 ...when your 5yo dd plays "mommy" by creating a grid lesson planner and teaches her dollies out of her old ETC workbooks.:001_smile: (When she sticks her hair up in a bun with a Ticonderoga #2, I'm calling the therapist.:tongue_smilie::lol:) :lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 You know your children are home-schooled when the shower songs of choice are sections of Classical music from Beethoven's Wig, and when DD7 lines up his stuffed "babies" to nurse "Momma Cat" because "They have hair, Mom, they are obviously mammals!" My sister, also a home-schooled child, would say that a dead giveaway would be crying while listening to a piece of classical music. When she was asked why, by her fellow college students, she said, "Because it is so beautiful." And they couldn't understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnMomof7 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 DD 7 has a "Latin Countdown" on the go - "Only 5 more days until I get to learn Latin!!!" I told her she can't start Latin until her phonics lessons are finished up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 They are neat. I think I gave my sister flesh-eating bacteria & the black plague a few Christmases ago. I gave some of my friends mono for Valentine's Day. (It's the kissing disease, so entirely appropriate, right?) They now want to collect all of the diseases. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) I was in the book store and these came to me: When a young child knows and follows a multi-step protocol for evaluating used books in a book store. When a family has multiple Book Eval protocols depending on the type of book: Workbook, textbook, anthology, Leveled Readers, etc...And their 4yo knows them all. When every female over the age of 10 owns more books than shoes. When the kids go ":001_huh:" at the mention of the latest TV Show. When Kers follow up hearing the time by asking: So are the other kids out of school yet? Edited March 16, 2011 by mom2bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmschooling Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 :iagree:Also a dead giveaway--when someone asks what grade my kids are in and they shrug their shoulders and look at me questioningly. :lol: This and not knowing who Justin Beiber is!! And when they are the only big kids on the playland at Chic Fil A or McDonald's :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Last week DS7 was telling my friend that his daddy's birthday is next week, March 15th, the same day that Julius Ceasar was killed by the senate, then continued with yelling "BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!"She is a kindergarden teacher and I don't think she had any idea what he was talking about :tongue_smilie: this is hilarious!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 And when they are the only big kids on the playland at Chic Fil A or McDonald's :) I thought mine were the only ones! And yes, they'd give blank stares to Hannah Montana or Justin Bieber. But they will request "Rhapsody in Blue." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) When they read through 86 posts on a HS forum just to make sure there really are other kids out there just like them. :001_smile: Edited March 16, 2011 by mom2bee 86 by the time I posted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmschooling Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 When Kers follow up hearing the time by asking: So are the other kids out of school yet? This is how all my kids judge time. HAHAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Once when my (then) 6 year old was getting a haircut, the barber asked him what he was learning about in school. My ds said the pilgrims. The barber asked, "So, do you know where the pilgrims went?" My ds spent the next ten minutes giving all the details of how the pilgrims went to Holland then went back to England. At the end he mentioned "And then, of course they went to America". The barber looked like he thought he was nuts and said... "Well, at least you're learning something!" :lol: (the Story of the Pilgrims was his favorite book that year) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Hisglory Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I can definitely relate to the "blank stare when asked what grade they are in" my oldest always did this mainly because we weren't sure if we would skip a grade her whole homeschool life until 9th grade. One of my favorite home school stories was when my son was learning multiplication and his younger sister thought it was so cool and such a big deal she ran to tell my oldest about it. Through the closed bathroom door she yelled "He is learning multiple creations." Cracked us up. Another time my son was counting to 10 on his fingers and he had skipped a finger so he got to the last finger and was only on nine. His shocked facial expression declared his concern over his missing finger and he immediately began a recount greatly relieved they were all present and accounted for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 ...when the UPS guy comes to your door and the kids know it's either someone's birthday or curricula... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my2boysteacher Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 ...when on vacation, your children strike up a conversation with other kids in the hot tub and ask if they'd like to have a spelling bee. Yep, happened today. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Hisglory Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 ...when the UPS guy comes to your door and the kids know it's either someone's birthday or curricula... :lol::lol::lol: It's the same here. The question is usually "Whose school is this mom?" I thought of another one,this just happened to us at the dentist's office but has happened many more times than that. When going out in public with the kids during school hours we will get asked "Oh, are you out of school today?" Another one, as I am sitting here, my oldest is correcting my writing as I am writing. Whaaaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitascool Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 ...when their grandparents ask if they would like a Kindle for their birthday and they say, "No thank you, I can get any book I want free from the library." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babysparkler Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I have one... my 3yo told his grandma the other day "My stomach is telling my brain that it's hungry.":lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 DS gave his date of birth as January 19, anno domini 2005 to his gymnastics coach. :lol: Hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbookbuzz Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: My kids come in a with slang and say, Mom, where did these kids learn to speak? :lol: I'm enjoying reading this thread, but this one actually made me laugh out loud! (Not something I do very often!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbookbuzz Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 ...when your 5yo dd plays "mommy" by creating a grid lesson planner and teaches her dollies out of her old ETC workbooks.:001_smile: (When she sticks her hair up in a bun with a Ticonderoga #2, I'm calling the therapist.:tongue_smilie::lol:) :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholderby Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 At the Natural History Museum, DS overheard my sister tell her son about a Dimetrodon, calling it a dinosaur. Naturally DS had to correct her...you should have seen his exasperation when she called a pterosaur a dinosaur :lol:. We do not take dinosaur classification lightly 'round here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I know its not Christmas, but this is hilarious to me... Thanks for posting this link, my kids just watched it and they LOVE it! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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