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Hi all, am having a fun conversation with some women in our local group. One of the moms set up a monthly time for our homeschool group to have regular monthly confessions at one of the parishes. Anyway when she posted it to our Yahoo group the title of the message was "Homeschool Confession" and the first line said:
Hello everyone! This is an invitation for homeschool confession!
It hit me funny and this is how I responded:
Marym wrote:
Homeschool confessions...?
~Sometimes we don’t get out of our pajamas all day
~Yes, I think Yahtzee definitely counts as math
~Lesson plans can be found scribbled on post-it notes in my purse
~Whatever is growing in the Tupperware I found under the seat in the van – science lesson!
~We are not studying Latin
~I have 130 items checked out from the library
~I can’t find anything in the clutter on my desk
~I have homeschooled at midnight
~And I am taking a snow day! (it's snowing in Denver today) |
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Anyway, it has sparked some fun conversation in our group - everyone feels relieved to hear the craziness and the ability to relax.
So what are your homeschool confessions? 
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MaryM wrote:
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I KNEW IT!!!!!! I knew you loved Post-its!!!! 
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Confessions:
~ I haven't read nearly as many books as my kids have.
~ I love tape. It's probably an addiction. Masking, scotch, glossy, duct. I should get help.
~ I still assign picture books for high school reading.
~ I'm not afraid to put in Schoolhouse Rock and check off Grammar, Science, Music, History and call it a day.
~ I cut up coffee table books with reckless abandon if I can use the pics in them for picture study or art of some kind.
~ I actually like Saxon math.
~ I haven't changed our liturgical display since August.
~ I let my kids watch the movie before they read the book.
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Confessions? Love it.
Here goes:
** I let my kids watch Martha Speaks every day after lunch because that part at the very end counts as vocabulary words
**I have 12 different picture books about Christopher Columbus. Why?
**My kids recognize the picture of "Starry Night" on display at Costco and refer to Vincent Van Gogh as " the Costco painter"
**My lesson plans are never written for more than one day in advance
**I sometimes spend more time looking for a book or item than we actually spend using it
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Oh Oh, let's see:
- I like & use MCP phonics for the little guys
- We haven't had our formal liturgical tea since June 
- The kids watch Wild Kratz daily and it counts as life science
- I've never studied Latin; my kids do 
- I know I haven't read as many classic books as my kids have!!
- I'm several weeks behind on my read alouds 
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SeaStar wrote:
**My kids recognize the picture of "Starry Night" on display at Costco and refer to Vincent Van Gogh as " the Costco painter"
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Bahaha!!!! 
I have to admit, as an unschooler I read these confessions and think "Wait. That's confession-worthy? For us those things are all part of the plan!" LOL!
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lapazfarm wrote:
I have to admit, as an unschooler I read these confessions and think "Wait. That's confession-worthy? For us those things are all part of the plan!" LOL! |
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You have to remember I posted my list on our local Yahoo group - no unschoolers and few ecclectic homeschoolers there, so to them reads a little different. I haven't done my 4 Real version.
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Love these...I need to think of some.
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LOL!
~if I had a bad night and have to sleep in, I do!
~We often don't start school until 11am
~My kids learn more things without me than with me and not for lack of trying on my part...they love self-directed rabbit trails!
~I consider any day we get to the basics and a shower "a good day" the rest is a pure bliss bonus!
~I so don't fit in with school-in-the-box people. They consider me "dangerous"
(I like too many great things that are not on their "list)
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Donna Marie wrote:
~I so don't fit in with school-in-the-box people. They consider me "dangerous"
(I like too many great things that are not on their "list) |
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I'm proud to sit next to you on that bench! 
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My turn!
- My kids sleep in VERY late. And I let them...so I can get quiet time and do some work in that blessed silent space.
- Every time we try to stay up late to see some kind of astronomical event/planetary alignment, it is cloudy.
- We don't study Latin either, and we switch foreign languages at least once a year.
- I spend more time planning my Co-op lessons than I do working on lesson plans for my own child.
- I let my daughter ditch Co-op last Friday...so she could be in an Irish dance performance at another Co-op.
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Mackfam wrote:
Donna Marie wrote:
~I so don't fit in with school-in-the-box people. They consider me "dangerous"
(I like too many great things that are not on their "list) |
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I'm proud to sit next to you on that bench! |
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WELCOME!  I am proud to have you with me!
No kidding, the other day I was at a homeschool get-together and I was talking about an awesome curricula aid and I got a few blank stares. I could see it in their eyes...I deviated from their norm which is just. not. done. LOL At least I can enjoy the joke on the ride home in the van with the kids
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Ok, I thought of a few that might apply here:
~ I read so much to my daughter all day that I just cannot do bedtime stories any more. She is on her own at night.
~ I stay up way too late to get some "me time" and as a result I've worked my way up from one cup to 4 cups of coffee per day.
~ I use our art supplies more than the kids do.
~ I hate spending money on clothes but will buy a book at a drop of a hat.
~ I watch Teaching Company lectures while I'm riding my exercise bike. 
~ something is "off" if we've gone a whole day without quoting The Princess Bride, O Brother Where Art Thou, or Airplane.
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Donna Marie, you're so funny!
My favorite homeschool group memories are always out-of-the-box moments...not necessarily curriculum-only, either.
We'd just moved back to Maryland after two years in Italy and two in West Virginia (where hunting is not only popular but a necessary event for many families...there'd be no meat on the table if hunting didn't take place), and I found a homeschool group through our new umbrella school. We were at a local park, sitting around watching our children enjoy a lovely afternoon of play, when the subject of camping food came up.
"Oh!" I said, "my son's West Virginia Boy Scout troop just participated in a camping food competition! All the troops had to cook food they'd caught themselves."
My son's troop came in second, with trout garnished with fresh watercress. Venison came in first. As I described the results, the moms' eyes glazed over with that, "What!! Those boys killed Bambi?!" look. Uh-oh. I'm back in the big city, I thought...but the very next words out of my mouth were, "Well, at least it wasn't squirrel gravy!"
Trap door...Oh, did I need one!
And, of course, when I got home, my son said, "But one of the troops DID bring squirrel gravy!"
I so wish I could say that this episode cured me of impulsive commentary...but... 
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lapazfarm wrote:
~ I use our art supplies more than the kids do.
~ I hate spending money on clothes but will buy a book at a drop of a hat.
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oh, yes, me too.
I feel so normal now
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Theresa, I knew I liked you for a reason (or three)!
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~ I stay up way too late to get some "me time" and as a result I've worked my way up from one cup to 4 cups of coffee per day.
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For me, it's Diet Coke, books or art supplies and The Princess Bride, Star Wars, Airplane, the Lord of the Rings trilogy or (gasp) Mel Brooks films. (Yes, my husband is a sailor. With all the "vocabulary" you'd expect. )
Plus, we both love Alaska...although I can't ever expect to appreciate The Last Frontier as much as you do!
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The real reason I home educate is;
So I can buy books
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Oh, Erin, you are my sister in the Southern Hemisphere!!!
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Erin wrote:
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Well said. I'd adapt it a bit. Out of the box curriculum I can't justify buying books, so the main reason why I picked a living books approach is so I can buy books!
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Mackfam wrote:
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Well, doesn't everybody???
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I think you need some help, dear. You should probably find some kind of 12 step program you can "stick" with and "adhere" to all their guidelines so you'll break free of this addiction.
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I knew nothing about Martha Speaks (had to google it) but first read this as Martha (as in Stewart Living) and though, I'd count that as Home Ec.
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Because you, too, love discovering new worlds - through picture books in your case...
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That is hysterical!
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Oh, I hate it when that happens - and believe me happens does here, too.
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I'm more than that behind...I was so much better at read alouds with my older kids than I have been the past many years... now that is truly a confession on this board...
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Is a good excuse, like a bad night, required to sleep in...if so I'm in trouble.[
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Then I like to hang out with a dangerous crowd.
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Hate to admit it...
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I don't even have to confess that - I think everyone who sees my 2 AM posts is aware of this...
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Now that is a good reason to homeschool... 
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