April 27th, 2008
FAQs
Q:
Why are you homeschooling?
A:
Well, we thought a lot about it before deciding that — hey! OMG! Did you see that car? That was weird. Woah. What?
Q:
Wow. Homeschooling. I could never do it with my kids.
A:
I know. God, I couldn’t homeschool your kids either.
Q:
“How do you keep from getting overwhelmed and frustrated?”
A:
Well, I get up pretty early and get started. So by 9:30 or 10:00 when we’re working on math — which is the subject we have the most trouble with — I’m already pretty drunk.
Q:
“You’re homeschooling? But aren’t you worried about social skills?”
A:
“Fuck you, buttface!”
(Thanks to my dad for that one. Even though I went to public school, I am proud to say I learned most of my social skills at home.)
April 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Absolute genius!
April 27th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
OMG. Love it. Especially No. 2.
Best of luck with it. It reminds me of when I tell people I hope to use cloth diapers. Yeah, I can’t imagine cleaning up after your kids’ poop either.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Hi,
Can I ask a different set of questions? Hmm?, I’ll take that as a yes. How did you get started? What do you use for curriculum? Do you belong to any organizations that have helped you?
I have been thinking about it for my sons and I would love to be able to evaluate it.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Bwahahahahahaha, perfect answers!
April 27th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
As a formerly homeschooled child and a parent who plans to homeschool her children, I can identify with each of these questions… and like your answers!
April 27th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Not on fire (ha! The wings. Are NOT. ON FIRE.), I plan to post our curriculum here this weekend.
Basically what I did was look up the Kindergarten standard curriculum/goals for our state, and peeked ahead at first grade. Then I read anything I could find that listed Kindergarten milestones/things that need to be taught or omg your kid will be messed up for life. I read and read and read.
Then I sat down, and without referencing those directly, wrote out a list of rough goals for our own efforts here. Some goals are general, some more specific. Most are things that are covered in regular school but not all.
Then I outlined and brainstormed on ways to approach the different goals, little by little over the next three months.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Cool! You’ve done all the work, and we’ll get to look at the answers. Love it. I can’t imagine sending our wee boys off to school Full-Time in only a Few Years. But maybe by then they’ll want to go, or we’ll want them to go. Who knows…
April 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Very cool. Glad that you are doing what your heart tells you is right for your boys.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Have you had these reactions or are you just anticipating them?
April 28th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Ha, Rosie — see today’s post. It’s all in my head.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
“Fuck you, buttface!” is also the proper response when, at communion, the priest says, “Body of Christ.”
April 30th, 2008 at 9:58 am
OMG hysterical. However,i prefer ‘dickface’ over buttface :P
hee hee. I love your dad. And also i may want to make out with Bucky for his/her comment, that was utterly spectacular.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
OMG! I am bookmarking your blog RIGHT NOW!
May 19th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Oh, those are the perfect responses. I’m going to memorize them for the next time I hit the grocery store between the hours of 9am and 3pm.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Hi, um, I just found your blog over a year after you posted this, and just had to comment to say… as a (semi) well-adjusted adult who was homeschooled/unschooled my whole life, #2 is the best answer I have EVER seen to that remark.