Homeschooling Is Life! - Demented Outlook :)

• Nov. 21, 2008 - Demented Outlook :)

You know,

I've been trying to get some crafts created for Christmas so I can take part in the Homemade Christmas thingy....well, several of my family members have had a terrible cold and so things are a bit out of wack here. I guess that is pretty normal though! After all, we are just a bunch of demented homeschoolers, you know. At least that is what "Joy" from that program, "The View" thinks. I'm not posting any links---if you want to, sure, go listen to it. But beware, it is very um...a waste of time-ish?

At any rate, the subject was where were the president-elect's children going to attend school, and homeschooling came up and this gal "Joy" said that homeschoolers were demented! And that they were scared of other children! I hear that she used to be a P.S. teacher. Hmmmm...so how does she know? Does she read HSB? LOL!

I looked up the definition of demented, and here is what I found:

Main Entry: demented

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: crazy, insane

Synonyms: bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious, deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied, fruity, hysterical, idiotic, in the ozone, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, non compos mentis, nutty as a fruitcake, out of one’s gourd, out of one’s tree, psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged*, unsound, whacko

Antonyms: balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible

I think that I resemble that remark! And my kids, well I seriously believe they are in the antonym category; balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible...for certain!

Non compos mentis!

Nancy

Comments

• Nov. 24, 2008 - Funny.....

Posted by Mama9blessings

I thought maybe people who think we should only spend time with our age segregated peers, changing what we're doing every 50 minutes and expected to dress like everybody else to be "cool" were bit off...after all, *I* don't spend my days that way! (Well, we do all dress similarly, but not necessarily to be "cool"! LOL!)

Honestly! Maybe she should come out to the midwest and see how demented my dc are! They get along quite well with all ages, and I'm not too afraid of other children, considering we have a bunch coming every two weeks to take lessons from us! And lots of people actually *like* spending time with us! So they must not be too afraid of *us*, either! (They also must not think we're too demented!)

Anyway, loved your post! Haven't been over this way lately, so I'm going to have to make a "daily rounds" folder so my favorites of the favorites don't get left behind! ; )

Hope everyone gets to feeling better!

Blessings!

Trisch

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• Nov. 24, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by bbullard

I saw a post about this on another loop, although I'm not a "View" watcher and I'm not sure who Joy is. However, this was the best response I saw on the comment:

'Media companies are not faring well in the current economic downturn and thrash around looking for ratings. They can certainly be ignored.'

Shame on us if we give this too much thought, much less publicity, right?

Just wanted to check in and make sure you're okay.

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• Dec. 3, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by SandBetweenMyToes

The thing is aren't we supposed to be demented in the world's eyes. If I'm just like them, then I'm not set apart. I'm thankful to be weird in her eyes.

Such cute little Thanksgiving decorations. Haha. I forgot to pull any of mine out this year, too. I hear ya on the sickness messing everything up.

Cute bunnies, too. I bet that made her year.

Letitia

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