Tonight as I got all my paperwork in line so I can appropriately notify the school district about my intentions to educate the children at home, I came across this list and I found some of them on-point and quite amusing - please note my personal input is in blue:
Top 20 Advantages to Homeschooling
20. Your kids never tell you that you're a lot dumber than their teacher.
19. If you can't find matching socks for your child first thing in the morning, who cares? (Seriously, my girls think it is important to express their individuality and wear non-matching socks, even in public.)
18. Cleaning out the refrigerator can double as chemistry lab. (This is a scary venture in our house.)
17. Your kids have good reason to think they might get spanked in school, but no reason to think they'll get beat up by a gang. (So much for sending them to the Principal's office . . . they go straight to their room to ponder their wrong doing.)
16. If the principal gives the teacher a bad evaluation, she can stick her icy feet against his legs at night.
15. You can post the Ten Commandments on your school room wall and won't get sued. (Can even say the Pledge of Allegiance using "one nation under God."
14. You never have to drive your child's forgotten lunch to school.
13.Your child will never go to their 20th high school reunion, meet an old flame, and recklessly abandon their marriage. (According to my husband, I mean the principal, the girls will not be allowed to date let alone get married until they are very very OLD.)
12. You get to change more than diapers, you get to change their minds.
11. If you get caught talking to yourself, you can claim you're having a parent teacher conference. (Really? Who doesn't talk to themselves? On a good day the conversations are light and funny.)
10. It's better to be slightly concerned about socialization than very concerned about socialism.
9. Your child will never suffer the embarrassment of group showers after PE.
8. The only debate about the school lunch program is whose turn it is to cook. (At least they are getting home economics very early and will be able to cook for themselves.)
7. You never have to face the dilemma of whether to take your child's side or the teacher's side in a dispute at school.
6. If your child gets drugs at school, it's probably Tylenol.
5. The teacher gets to kiss the principal in the faculty lounge and no one gossips. (Just get to hear the "YUKS!!" from the students.)
4. Your kids recognize that this list is numerically in reverse order.
3. Your honor student can actually read the bumper sticker that you have on your car.
2. If your child claims that the dog ate his homework, you can ask the dog. (We don't have a dog, we have a miniature horse. LOL)
1. Some day your children will consider you to be a miracle working expert and will turn to you for advice. (I look forward to this day!!)
2 comments:
Love, Love, the parent teacher conference one!
Oh my goodness! I still have to notify! Good grief! Thanks for the reminder! LOL
Your top twenty is hilarious btw! I know exactly what you mean about the refrigerator ;)
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