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...homeschooled when...
1. They don't know how to play kickball! My 6 and under set know every sport under the sun (including golf and lacrosse)... but it seems that since ABC doesn't broadcast the World Series of Kickball, my boys don't know the joys of blacktop kickball. Their CT cousins harrassed them (lovingly of course): "You know how to make a lay-up... but you don't know the rules of kickball??!?!" 
2. You engage in these type conversations:
5 yo: "Why did that boy say that naughty word?"
Me: "What naughty word?"  (silently panicking about how he knows what a naughty word IS)...
6 yo (interpreting): "Well... Bobby did something incredible on his bike, and the boy said, 'Oh that was WICKED.' I don't know why he said it... he must have meant something else."
5 yo: "Yeah... I don't know why he said it."
Me: speechless... I had to leave the room to laugh. And... I left it at that. I decided that it was okay for them to think wicked was not a word to describe amazing bicycle feats.
I don't get out much these days... and apparently neither do my boys! So...anybody else wanna play nerdy homeschoolers?
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When they look at their PS cousins' summer reading list and shake their head and mutter "Twaddle, twaddle, twaddle!" under their breath. "Twaddle" is Stephen's new favorite word.I'm not guessing they use it much in the general population.
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When asked what grade he was in my 8 year-old said, "I don't think I am in a grade-maybe tenth?" 
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joann10 wrote:
| When asked what grade he was in my 8 year-old said, "I don't think I am in a grade-maybe tenth?" |
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My younger ones will always turn to me and ask what grade they are in when someone ask them.
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My 5yo old told the Kindergarten teacher, who lives next door, "My mom doesn't believe in school." Oy!
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My son, at age 10, asked his friend with great enthusiasm, "Has your Mom read you Beowulf?"
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mama251ders wrote:
My 5yo old told the Kindergarten teacher, who lives next door, "My mom doesn't believe in school." Oy!
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My 6-yr-old was wanting to go somewheres with a friend a few weeks ago (ps was still in session) and the mother asked her about her having to do school. She came running up to me saying, "I told X's momma that I skip school all the time."
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When the coach says to the 5 year old soccer team on the first day of practice, "Everyone line up!" and your kids just stands there wondering what to do.
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Maria B. wrote:
| When the coach says to the 5 year old soccer team on the first day of practice, "Everyone line up!" and your kids just stands there wondering what to do. |
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That was us, too!
Before my kids ever played sports, someone didn't like the fact that we were homeschooling and actually asked me, "How will they learn to stand in line?
I replied, "Have you ever been to the movies or the grocery store?"
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You know your kids are home schooled when you have to tell them to "Turn down that book!"
I've been in a similar situation to Joann's. My husband and I were having dinner with our youngest at a Japanese steakhouse where they sit different parties at one table. The lady sitting next to me asked what grade my 8yo was in and I just went totally blank. I looked at him (apparently with a very confused look on my face) while I tried to figure it out. When I finally managed to stammer out "Ummm, 3rd," she laughed and said she had never gotten that reaction before. She figured out all on her own that we home school. 
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The post office clerk asked my 6 y.o. if she was in half-day or all day kindergarten. The poor thing didn't know what to say....finally she just looked confused and said..."I'm homeschooled."
The clerk laughed and said, "Oh, you're in school 24/7!"
Then dd was REALLY confused!
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Friendly neighbor: "What grade are you in?"
Dd, looking down at her shoes to see what she'd stepped in: "What's grade?"
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This is a great thread! So funny!
You know you're a CM homeschooler when your mother-in-law says, "Oh! Look at the pretty chickadee!", and your dd6 says, "Grandma, that's not a chickadee- it's a dark eyed junco."
Or perhaps....when your dd4 says quite casually to a friend of hours, "My, what pretty forsythia!"
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One of my favorites here was when my then 8 yr old daughter was chatting with the new neighbors across the street and asking about the ages of their children.. when told they have a 14 yr old daughter she says "oh she's close to my age"
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Maria B. wrote:
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Been there, done that
And then all the "No cuts..." chants  Dd was CONFUSED!
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You know your kids are homeschooled when they beg to listen to the soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera.
And my ds6 didn't know how to play four square. His homeschooling friends who have neighbors in ps taught him . . .
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Oh my gosh....these are all so funny!!!
We have a neighbor, Jemma, who is the same age as my oldest....1st grade, and she is in public school. She has grown up with our girls.
Just the other day, I saw my 2 daughters lugging the big bin of Patricia Polacco picture books (from the May Author Fiesta) out the door.
Me: "Hey, where are you two going with that? You can't take that outside!"
Them: "But, Mom....we're taking all of these over to Jemma's!! She just told us that she absolutely does NOT KNOW WHO Patricia Polacco IS! And, neither does Mrs. Clark! (her mother)" 
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Friendly neighbor: "What grade are you in?"
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This happens to us...regularly! Or "I don't know!"
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... when you're at Safeway at 9 in the morning (after morning Mass of course ) and you have a shopping cart full and have to go thru the express as they don't expect people to actually shop at that hour ... and the clerk asks if your 3 littles don't have school ... and your 8 yo "shy one" announces "no, Mom thinks shopping is school" ...
the clerk than says, "you must homeschool ... your kids are so well behaved"
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Oh ladies!! I knew we weren't alone being "nerdy!!"
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This happened to us recently at Home Depot! I'm SO used to the "are they all yours" question that when she asked if it was a "day off"... the boys and I just blinked at her for awhile (me who taught school for 9 years!)... and then figured out WHAT on earth she was asking about...
And then because I felt so dumb, my motor mouth started moving so quickly that I wondered if she thought I was being defensive: "Oh no! We homeschool. We're learning botany! See?" as I indicated my plants in my cart amongst my 3 babies/toddlers...
I think she thought I was ... I'm not sure that she isn't right!
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