{"id":2350,"date":"2012-03-03T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/reaction-19-to-i-am-homeschooling-my-children\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T20:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:30:38","slug":"reaction-19-to-i-am-homeschooling-my-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/reaction-19-to-i-am-homeschooling-my-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction #19 to \u201cI am homeschooling my children.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

So they must get to learn other things that they don\u2019t learn in school. (Translation: I had no idea you were some sort of religious freak \u2013 those are the only people who homeschool\u2026 religious freaks.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, I am not a religious freak. I love the Lord, but not a religious freak<\/em>. So now that THAT is out of the way\u2026.<\/p>\n

It could happen (not the religious freak part). Every now and then I do take the kids to do interesting things.\u00a0 Can I get something new and different in every day? \u00a0No. It is tough enough to get everything in that is required by\u00a0the online school\u00a0and the DC School Board, every day, for three kids.\u00a0 Who has time and energy for enrichment activities?\u00a0 Luckily, living in DC there are great museums and historical attractions everywhere, so we don\u2019t have to travel very far to get in a little something extra.\u00a0 I do have to make dinner every day so adding a cooking class every once in a while isn\u2019t too hard.<\/p>\n

I tend to notice more of what they don\u2019t learn here that they could learn at brick and mortar schools.\u00a0 They are not learning to use curse words, the details of the latest gory movie, how to ridicule other children, how to do who knows what when the teacher or bus driver isn\u2019t looking, how to lie about what homework they have, how to have inappropriate conversations, or how to eat chips and soda and call it lunch. I know there are some fabulous brick and mortar schools out there, some that are doing more with the kids than even I can do… this is\u00a0our choice for this time in our lives.<\/p>\n

So I guess they do learn things that they\u00a0might not\u00a0learn in school, like respect, time management, manners, resourcefulness, and how to learn by observing the world.\u00a0 The time we don\u2019t spend moving between classes, driving to school, filing into the lunch room, or waiting for the class to be quiet, is spent outside finding examples of what they have found in their books and on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So they must get to learn other things that they don\u2019t learn in school. (Translation: I had no idea you were some sort of religious freak \u2013 those are the only people who homeschool\u2026 religious freaks.) Well, I am not…<\/p>\n

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