#howwehomeschool

The boy is not sick.  That's his "concentrating" look.

Back - to - Homeschool Clothes Shopping.

My mother and me, 1989.

Are you all done with your back-to-homeschool clothes shopping?  Do you need a jumper like the one I'm wearing in the picture above?  You can actually buy 'em on etsy and be just like all the cool kids. 

Or maybe you want a more modern T-shirt from zazzle with a homeschooling slogan.  Notice how they try to get you to "accessorize" your shirt with a pair of jammie pants?  Stereotypical, maybe, but I wonder how many sales they get.

And then there's Amazon.  Our buddy.  You can buy Homeschool Snowboarding pants for $270 and get *free shipping!*  Pretty exciting, huh?

"No amount of snow nor rain can mess up your day off when you've got the Homeschool Snowboarding Heavy Days 3.5L Pants. It's almost difficult to have a bad day out on the hill when you have a 3.5 layer shell with 37.5 technology bringing supreme waterproofing and breathability to tackle godly amounts of rain, sleet, hail, pow, and anything in between. Homeschool's packed this thing full of features like a Pant to Jacket interface, boot gaiters and thigh vents, all guaranteed to make life easier and pow slaying more enjoyable."

That's right, folks!  Godly amounts of rain and "pow" won't have any effect on you when you are wearing your  Homeschool Snowboarding pants.

Think we'll just stick with last year's stained T-shirts and save some money.  How about you?  

Woodjie Recites the Preamble!

Woodjie can say the Preamble, too!  Please leave him a comment!

Rose Recites the Preamble!

Guess what we're learning about in history?  I don't think the children understand the importance of the Constitution just yet, but we're working on it.

Old Pic

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Mary Jane Albert (Cunningham) was born in Pennsylvania in 1856.  She is my paternal great-great grandmother.   

Teaching as Sport

Well, the back-to-school specials are already happening here.  Public school begins mid-August in our state.  Yippee?

Bad Lunches = Child Abuse

Some guy is given permission by school staff to snoop around the cafeteria and rummage through kids' lunches.   He practically squashes some little girl as he tosses her baggie on the table in disgust and proclaims it to be "unacceptable."  The principal is about two feet away and apologizes... not to the kid, but to the weirdo scrounging around in the lunches.  Well, he tells the man, the instructions he's been given are that if the parents pack a lunch, that's what the kid is eating.

Wow.

So.  "Bad" lunches are child abuse now.  Do these people even know what child abuse is?  It's not a packet of chips and some Skittles, I assure you.