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.)
Absolute genius!
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.
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.
Bwahahahahahaha, perfect answers!
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!
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.
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…
Very cool. Glad that you are doing what your heart tells you is right for your boys.
Have you had these reactions or are you just anticipating them?
Ha, Rosie — see today’s post. It’s all in my head.
“Fuck you, buttface!” is also the proper response when, at communion, the priest says, “Body of Christ.”
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.
OMG! I am bookmarking your blog RIGHT NOW!
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.
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.