...your Ds15 receives his replica Spartan sword from the UPS guy and immediately chuckles at the use of a Roman soldier on the packaging. :roll:..:lol: Thought we might all like a thread with some notable manifestations of our accomplishments as home-educating parents. This time of year, I can use all the encouragement I can get to let me know I done good.
That's great! I can't think of anything right now but I would love to hear everyone else's experiences.
....you go to the grocery store specifically to buy colored foods to use as natural dyes to attempt to make tie-dye shirts for an art project using only natural ingredients and dyes.
... your five year old quizzes adult relatives about the state capitals and gives them hints like, "Come on... It starts with S..."
...your 11 year old remarks how he would like to have some of those "Grecian" style column pedestals holding the floral designs in the church sanctuary...after studying Ancient Greece in History.
Your daughter is so proficient in music that when you sing she tells you that you are singing the wrong note and is correct.
...Your 9 year old shows his 16 year old public schooled brother all the countries of the former USSR.
...when you are able to keep up with the kids on Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? to the annoyance of those around you. (hey, we benefit just as much as our kids do, right?!)
Great thread, this can be funny and encouraging. DS (7) blew dh away the other day. Ds rang a bell that I had come across from my ps teaching days. He then was giggling away and told dh, "I just rang Mom's bell, and I don't mean figuratively." I needed that moment to overcome the times like when I asked him to name the continents and I was pointing to Australia and he said "Eureka". Really??? Really? That is when I say "kid, you're killing me".
...your 12 year old makes extra money helping adults learn how to use new computer software. ...your 14 year old spins off on her own lecture about George Washington's life and career while listening to a college level lecture on American History. ...you wonder if your child has learned anything in Spanish - it sure doesn't seem like it, then you visit Mexico and she talks to a random person on the street for directions, and understands well enough to get you where you're going.
...despite feeling like you are always behind, your oldest will have acquired enough credits to graduate a year early anyway.
your 10 ? 11 year old is wandering around Lego Land naming the cities and when asked how he knows them all he replies" That's because I home school an when you home school the learning never ends.. if you wan to know about something .. you just LOOK IT UP! " Your 7 yr old teaches jr highers how to put together a power point presentation, has several web sites he created by the time he is 12 and has made how to videos of Lego that are off the norm. Can figure how to build a building out of paper that would actually stand up because of its structural integrity.. Your dd graduate two years early Your older ds even though on educated at home his majority of years is far ahead of his College class of graphic artists.
...your 11yo (homeschooled) ds discusses ancient history with his public schooled, college age sister and discovers he KNOWS MORE about the subject than she does. Then finds out that she never even studied half of what he is learning right now in history.
your kids build a Trojan horse out of a stick horse head, a laundry basket and a skateboard for fun and you havent even taught that yet. And when your kids follow and contribute to the political debate at the dinner table at the grandparents house. And impress the grandfather with their insight.
...when you don't notice that other kids don't converse with adults until strangers point out the pleasant contradiction that yours do.
