What is Woefully Wednesday?
Oh just a fun little way for those of us in the homeschooling world to VENT!!! It started on the web site for Home for All as a way for members to share the inevitable ups and downs of the home education journey. As I was writing my first Woefully Wednesday post, I thought, "Gosh, I'd really like to put this on my blog..."
So I did:
Wow....I'm so very tired! I must admit- this really was a woeful Wednesday. I had high hopes at the beginning of the day that I wouldn't feel the need to post in this category. That hope faded quickly. Did I mention we are moving? We are. So added to the normal stress of moving, everyone was grouchy today and Kai found any way possible to pee all over the floor. In fact, he managed to pee on almost every floor we have. He accomplished this by using the potty as though he were an old pro and then sneaking away and urinating wherever he could. He was relentless. I finally decided to put a diaper back on him for the rest of the day. He then quietly removed it when I was out of sight and, you guessed it, peed all over. Perhaps he was feeling my stress, perhaps marking his territory, perhaps he is just a two year old who is potty training. Whatever the reason, he wore me out.
I won't go in to the details of the other trials from the day. I'll simpy say: Halleluia for bed time, for a husband who knows when to take over, that moving is not an eternal process, and that friends are there to pick you up when you're down....or to just sit with you if you'd prefer to stay down for awhile.
cross- posted at Home For All
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, March 15, 2010
The Idiocy
Oh the silly things people say. We have a number of people in our life who do not agree with our decision to homeschool. I respect their right to an opinion, but not when it is an uninformed one. Regardless, when I let myself cool down from the fumes of frustration, I find the comments kind of funny.
One of them was, "Dante is an agressive, active boy- he needs to be in school". Now if you are a fellow homeschooler and are reading this, you are already laughing. If you are not, let me explain; it is funny because this person was suggesting that my agressive, active son would benefit from the traditional school day where he would sit(in an active way?) at a desk. This same friend also said that school is good because he thinks kids should be free to be who they are and what they want to be. Uh- huh...how is that exactly? Oh that's right...because in school they would be free to learn at their own pace, to delve deeply into pyramids if their interests took them there, to alter their curriculum if their needs weren't being met by current methods, and to 'find themselves' as they would certainly be free from socially- constructed peer group expectations.
Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Another amusing comment was the concern about the ability of homeschoolers to solve problems. The specific examples of such problems were how to fill out a fundraiser form and what to do if bullied. They've got me on the fundraiser form; we won't be covering that this year. However, we purposely gave our children siblings because we were very concerned they have at least a reasonable amount of bullying on their transcripts. Finally, there was worry expressed over a homeschooler's ability to dress for work. "If they do math in their pajamas, how will they learn to get dressed for work?" I guess I'm just not sure about that. I do know that I went to college with almost all public schoolers...and we went to math in our pajamas.
One of them was, "Dante is an agressive, active boy- he needs to be in school". Now if you are a fellow homeschooler and are reading this, you are already laughing. If you are not, let me explain; it is funny because this person was suggesting that my agressive, active son would benefit from the traditional school day where he would sit(in an active way?) at a desk. This same friend also said that school is good because he thinks kids should be free to be who they are and what they want to be. Uh- huh...how is that exactly? Oh that's right...because in school they would be free to learn at their own pace, to delve deeply into pyramids if their interests took them there, to alter their curriculum if their needs weren't being met by current methods, and to 'find themselves' as they would certainly be free from socially- constructed peer group expectations.
Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Another amusing comment was the concern about the ability of homeschoolers to solve problems. The specific examples of such problems were how to fill out a fundraiser form and what to do if bullied. They've got me on the fundraiser form; we won't be covering that this year. However, we purposely gave our children siblings because we were very concerned they have at least a reasonable amount of bullying on their transcripts. Finally, there was worry expressed over a homeschooler's ability to dress for work. "If they do math in their pajamas, how will they learn to get dressed for work?" I guess I'm just not sure about that. I do know that I went to college with almost all public schoolers...and we went to math in our pajamas.
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