You all gonna be here when I wake up?

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Theodosia - Nov 12, 2005 12:42:07 pm PST #3530 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

So what are the common reasons parents do the homeschooling thing?

Don't forget, Parental Unit is a control freak who needs to approve every single little thing that enters Junior's tender mind.


Laura - Nov 12, 2005 12:42:21 pm PST #3531 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.

smooches Gus just because


Laura - Nov 12, 2005 12:43:39 pm PST #3532 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.

Oh yeah I see that too Theo. That type has issues with the notion that Johnny might make a friend they don't approve of too.


tommyrot - Nov 12, 2005 12:45:02 pm PST #3533 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Gah! Stupid Science magazine.

For US$10 you can have access to one article from Science for the next 24 hours from the computer you are currently using.

So I can pay $60 to read all the articles I want to read from a single issue of the mag... Bastards!


sarameg - Nov 12, 2005 12:52:05 pm PST #3534 of 10006

tommyrot, I think have access through work. Remind me monday and I'll see if I can grab the text for you.

Most of the homeschooled kids I knew were such because their parents were off-the-grid hippies living in the middle of nowhere in the Gila or something. Or rather militant pacifists living in a military town.

There comes a point in autumn when you have to trick yourself into uncoupling the equation of dark with night, or else you never, ever get your errands done.

Yeah, I don't do this so well. Errands end up on weekends.


beth b - Nov 12, 2005 12:53:28 pm PST #3535 of 10006
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Freakin' little early bird. I have no idea where he gets it.

wait 'til he starts school

and speaking of . around here there is a bunch that do it for religious reasons. and I have met some that do it because the school system is not good. Idealy , if some one was going to home school - I think there is a lot of value to going to school in the earlier grades. and as the child doesn't fit for some reason ( Laura's situation is a good one) and learning isn't happening - it sounds like a really good idea. I think in cases like my DH. he was way ahead of the classroom, almost before he walked in. and to this day -he tends to be pretty self disiplined when it comes to learning anything. So he could have done a self- study thing and gotten a lot more out of it then he did in the formal classroom. For me - that would have been bad.


tommyrot - Nov 12, 2005 12:54:55 pm PST #3536 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Thanks, sarameg. Will do.


Gus - Nov 12, 2005 12:56:45 pm PST #3537 of 10006
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

OK, here is the really important issue...

t smooches up on Laura in a way that says "Spouses? We don' need no estinking "spouses"


beth b - Nov 12, 2005 12:57:23 pm PST #3538 of 10006
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Actually, the worst reason I saw for parents to homeschool - is that both had a terrible time when they went to school. and I got to say though their kids are smart and nice - the two girls I know best - are just a little too sheltered from the real world. R- the oldest hasn't realized she can stand on her own. S is a little better. Sadly, I think they have caught mom and dad's fear of people without the experience to back it up.


sarameg - Nov 12, 2005 1:01:05 pm PST #3539 of 10006

Random observation: sparrows are vicious little suckers. Outside the store, two of them had a third down on its back, and they were trying to steal whatever was in its mouth. Dang. Little sparrow muggers.