Terri Clark

I am a homeschooling mom who is married to a great guy. I am also a spiritual seeker. I love nature, laughter and chocolate. I blog at How to Nail Jello to a Tree.

When you see a mom and school-aged child in an office waiting on a doctor appointment be sure to look at them quizzically and ask, “Is school out?”  Not that it’s any of your business unless you happen to have children in school, in which case you would already know the answer to that question.

 

This happened to us the other day in the chiropractor’s waiting room and is a great way to annoy a homeschooler.  With all due respect to the person asking the question though, he turned out to be a nice man and chatted with us about his son who was a teacher.

Another great way to annoy a homeschooler is if you are working at McDonald’s drive-thru when we cruise through on $1.99 happy meal day, look at my daughter and ask her in a condescending tone, “Hey, why aren’t you in school?”  Yep, this happened to us too.  I don’t deliberately go into the local public school and walk up to your kid and ask, “Hey, why aren’t you at home?”  That would just be rude.

If you are on our side of the homeschooling fence (another homeschool family), be sure to let me know how hard you make your kids work.  I need the assurance your child is probably learning more than mine because you spend all day drilling him/her on edu-trivia.  I am also dying to know how much you spent this year on curriculum.  Not.

The Socialization Question

The most obvious way to annoy a homeschooler is to ask them the dreaded, “But what about socialization?” question.  Oddly, I really haven’t had to deal with that one much.  Our daughter is doing fine socially.  She still has friends she made when she attended public school, is active in 4-H and goes to various events that local homeschool groups put on.  In the summer she is involved in vacation bible school, going to the  water-park,and the kids on campus program at the college .  There are so many things to do we can’t possible do them all.  She is one of those people to whom no one is a stranger, she will walk right up to an adult or child and start a conversation.

These are just a few ideas on how to annoy a homeschooler.  You can also quiz my child on math or geography, the list is practically endless.

When you see us out in the middle of the day during public school hours, rest assured we are doing just fine. To put it in public school lingo, most likely we are on a field trip.

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Terri blogs at: How to Nail Jello to a Tree

 

 

 

 


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