I found this in my files and thought I'd share it! It brought a sheepish smile of self-recognation to my face, maybe it will to yours too!  - Deedee

You Know You're A Homeschool Mum When...
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You get to change more than nappies, you get to change their minds.
 
When a child busts a lip, and after seeing she's okay, you round up some scotch tape to capture some blood and look at it under the microscope!
 
Your children never ever leave the "why?" stage.
 
When your teenager decides to take one community college course, and comes home and asks you why the teacher wrote "At" on his paper. (A+)
 
You ask for, and get, a copier instead of a diamond tennis bracelet for your wedding anniversary.
 
Your kids think reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog.
 
Your husband can walk in at the end of a long day and tell how the science experiment went just by looking at the house.
 
Your neighbors think you are insane.
 
Your formal dining room now has a computer, copy machine, and many book shelves and there are educational posters and maps all over the walls.
 
You have meal worms growing in a container....on purpose.
 
Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference.
 
You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear.
 
You can't make it through a movie without pointing out the historical inaccuracies.
 
You step on math manipulatives on your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom.
 
Some day your children will consider you to be a miracle-working expert and will turn to you for advice.
 
You can't make it through the grocery produce department without asking your preschooler the name and color of every vegetable.
 
You can't put your produce in your cart without asking your older student to estimate it's weight and verify accuracy.
 
You live in a one-house schoolroom.

I found this  about an animal school on 'The Homeschool Minute'.  I thought it was beautiful and well worth a watch.  How we need to love and nurture each child as an individual!  I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

   I found this one on another site and just HAD to share it! What a hoot! This may be American and a few years old, but I have never heard this one and found it quite amusing. It is Ten reasons to outlaw homeschooling. Hope it gives you a smile!

Memo: Top 10 Reasons to Criminalize Homeschooling

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(2002-08-26) — In an effort to increase the public drumbeat for criminalizing homeschooling, California Deputy Superintendent Joanne Mendoza has distributed a memo containing the top 10 reasons why public schooling is better than homeschooling. Here is an excerpt from that memo:
Why Public Schooling Is Better Than Homeschooling

   I found this homeschool comic strip that about sums up the 'myths and realilities' of both homeschooling and public schools! Thought you might enjoy it! The Author's website is listed at the bottom of the pictures.

   So do you spend all day answering the billion questions that your children keep asking? I know I do!! Here are some questions from the grown ups - just to make you smile today!!

Thanks to Uncle Tom...   Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?   Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?   Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?     Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?   Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?   Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?     Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?   Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?   Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?   If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?   Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?   Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?   Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?     Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?     Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?     How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?       Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?   In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?     How come you never hear father-in-law jokes? The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.     I pinched this one from jayfromcleveland's blog. I couldn't resist!

Here is one my BIL sent me today! You gotta laugh at some of these test answers!!

Can you imagine yourself to be the nun sitting at her desk grading these
papers, all the while trying to keep a straight face and maintain her
composure!
PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WORDING AND SPELLING. IF YOU KNOW THE BIBLE
EVEN A LITTLE, YOU'LL FIND THIS HILARIOUS! IT COMES FROM A CATHOLIC
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST IN WHICH KIDS WERE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OLD AND
NEW TESTAMENTS. THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY
CHILDREN. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RETOUCHED OR CORRECTED. INCORRECT SPELLING HAS
BEEN LEFT IN.
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE
WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF
ARK. NOAH BUILT THE ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS
3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING
THE NIGHT.
5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE
DELILAH.
6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH
IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.
8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP
TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.
10 THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.
11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA. THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN
THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.
12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND
STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.
13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT
THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.
15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN
THE MANAGER.
17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE
THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.
23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN.
24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY WHICH IS
ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.

Hope that one made you smile! I had a giggle reading it and decided to share the laughter. After all we all have days when we just need something mindless to make us smile!!Hope you're all having a good week!

I was sent this this morning by a homeschool friend in the states and then I found it on Dena's blog this morning too! So I decided to share it with you all! Just to remind you of some of the plus side incase you are having the 'bang you head on the wall' week that I am having!!!

20 Great Reasons (From Jim Erskine)