Walking Therein

You Know You're a Homeschooler If...

• *Your school dress code is: No nudity.
• *You are firmly convinced that high school causes brain damage.
• *You sleep in till 9 am on weekdays but get up at 7 am on Sundays.
• *You have more siblings than sweaters
• *You know what a 'Park Day' is.
• *Your favorite author is Jane Austen, G.K. Chesterton, or Tolkien.
• *You have ever suffered through Saxon Math.
• *All birthdays are school holidays.
• You have ever finished your schoolwork before breakfast.
• *You taunt high schooled friends during finals week.
• People compliment you on your polka dot suspenders and mismatched socks.
• *You spend more than 2 hours each day reading and writing....voluntarily.
• *You are 16 years of age or older and have never been on a date.
• *You know what 'Unit Studies' are.
• You have more than 2 science experiments going on in your room.
• *You know more than 1 Latin paradigm.
• *You have ever spent the entire school day in pajamas.
• *You regularly utilize words such as: "malingering", "tedious", and "indubitably".
• *You consider sled riding phys ed.
• *Your IQ is greater than your weight.
• *You check out more than 10 books each time you visit the library.
• *You have ever attempted to teach yourself physics.
• When asked about your GPA, you say: "Oh, probably 4.0."
• *You have no idea as to what rock bands are currently popular...but you can recite all of the stages of cellular mitosis (in order).
• *You believe that you are the most intelligent human in your age bracket within a ten mile radius.
• *You actually want to receive books on your birthday.
• *You are on a first name basis with your local librarians.
• *You have ever vented for more than five minutes on the evils of standardized testing.
• *Every time your dad wants to encourage you to do yard work he calls it "extra credit!"
• *You memorize Latin roots to impress your friends.
• You have the Dewey Decimal system memorized.
• You've tried memorizing the laws of thermodynamics for fun.
• *You believe that learning is best accomplished in a tree, while eating a peanut butter sandwich.
• *You can quote lines from Shakespeare, but not from South Park.
• *You read the dictionary for fun.
• *Textbooks seem handy for starting fires, and that's about it.
• *Your idea of an awesome weekend is Plato, hot tea, and a microscope.
• *You've ever had nightmares about attending public school.
• *You have a standard 4 minute speech to give to teachers, aunts, mother in laws, and school officials about why you are homeschooled.
• *You've ever laughed out loud when someone asked you "What about socialization?"
• You build a potato cannon to test out the physics equations you just learned
• *You take that data and make it into a powerpoint, you now have an honors credit.
• *You don't even use your desk for school, the bed is more comfortable.
• *You get mad at yourself for getting a B+ in math, you could have done better.

Those were funny weren't they?

5:14 PM, Thursday, August 3, 2006 .. Posted by Jocelyndixon

I hope people get a kick out of them. I know I did!

Love...Sincerely,

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9:25 PM, Thursday, August 3, 2006 .. Posted by babymakers

That made me chuckle. We are not all of those but we are alot of them! I would say 95% of them.