It's pajama day everyday, your kids think they're being tortured when you have to wake them before 8:00 in the morning, and they have no what an early dismissal day is because they are always done by early dismissal time
You interrupt a morning lego creation build to run to the window and say, "Look! There's your bus! Quick! Run! You'll miss it!" (with a sarcastic giggle from everyone). You're playing xbox when the bus returns in the afternoon. No reason to pause for a wave. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want without raising your hand.
Just seeing the schoolbus go by makes you snicker. When actual school work (paperwork) is just ONE part of your children's day, with plenty of room to work on other skills, instead of being the entire focus of their lives.
...a child has to write a paragraph about how he went to school that day and the child relates a few sentences of how he tumbled down the stairs and went to the lower level.
...when your child takes band at the ps and wants to quit after a few weeks and you have the following conversation: "Why do you want to quit band?" I asked. "The kids are mean!" "They are mean to you?" I respond. "No. They are mean to each other!"
We had a schoolbus stop for us last week. We were out taking a walk waiting at the corner to cross the street. A school bus stopped and opened its doors waiting for my boys to get on. The poor driver didn't believe me at first when I told him to go on. It was the end of a school day so I had no idea what the bus was for or where it was going, but they stop and pick up kids on the street after school.:?:
when... you suggest that your son's cub scout den meets to go for a hike at 2p.m. and have to be informed that most of the boys will still be in school! all I could say is, "Ummm, lol I forgot!"
You realize that learning doesn't have to look like what the school does. You can take off a day without writing a note and not feel guilty about it. Your son wants to do school at night, so he can take the next day off. You can read interesting stuff for history and watch cool movies and documentaries. You realize that you don't have to test if you don't want to.
you don't have a scheduled bed time.... and for those late nights out, your able to sleep in an extra hour before being the school day!
... when catching a critter outside just became your science for the week. ... when you can schedule your social studies around whatever obscure holiday is coming up. ... when even your toddler wants to do school because it's fun. ... when half your house is school material, even if all of it isn't used.
:lol: and don't forget the animal science, biology, and whatever lessons you can make out of it! Oh, I can't wait to get in a hunting blind this yr!
YES! ...when you still have school while everyone is too terrified to go out, and call a snow day when the roads are clear enough for "real" schools to be in session, so the sledding hills aren't crowded.
You don't have to dread the notes home from teachers because, oh yeah, you got to witness the melt down yourself....said after I just had a 5 minute battle with ds (6) that the alphabet does indeed go lmnop, not lmonp ("it does not spell the word no, so it has to be on, not no"). Seriously child!:evil: I threatened to make him practice the abc's 100 times tomorrow. And, heaven forbid I look it up to prove him wrong.:roll:
For the longest time dd was convinced there was NO SUCH LETTER as W. I'm not kidding. She would argue that I'd written M upside down. ... when your children can be trusted to behave in all social situations because they just DO. ... when you suddenly realize that raising children is about joy and discovery, not about stress and management.
I am loving this thread! Here's mine: when Dad has a day off of work, we can too! My husband just recently came back from a 4 month deployment, and we were able to take a week off, and go visit family in Texas (oh yeah, we went to the Alamo, too! Yay, history!).
