Christian Home Schooling - The lighter side
Christian home schooling means living out of a schoolroom. Your wall decorations include maps and timelines with your pictures. You know how to make games out of addition.
Christian home schooling means you grow mold, on purpose, for science experiments. Your child may have no idea who Sponge Bob is, but they can name all the planets. You’ve mastered the fine art of vacuuming floors and missing the Lego’s. (It also means you’re great at doing the Lego dance!)
Christian home schooling means you know the recipes for making home made Play-Doh and finger paint for art class.
Your students have to clear the dishes of the table in order to do their studies. Your house may be messy, but your kids are happy!
Christian home schooling means you know reverse psychology really does work. The kids enjoy publishing their own newsletter.
Christmas shopping means visiting all the local education stores first. All you really want for Christmas is a gift certificate for a book store. Christian home schooling means you’d rather buy books than clothes. You can turn any outing into a field trip.
You have so much curriculum that no one wants to help you move. You get nervous about parents’ reactions when you take all your kids to Wall-Mart in the middle of the day. Christian home schooling means that for years you’ve had a standard one-minute speech ready to give anyone who asks, “But why do you do this?”
You get tired of answering the questions about socialization. Christian home schooling means that when you start talking to yourself, you are actually having a parent/teacher conference. Every time you see a parking lot full of mini vans, you wonder if they are all Christian home schooling families.
You take your annual family vacation to the beach in the fall, when it’s empty. Your suitcase will always include books. Christian home schooling means the first place you look for missing kitchen utensils is in the sandbox.
You are always ready to stop whatever you’re doing to investigate a bug on the picnic table. You know all the scientific names for, well, everything. The kitchen is also the science lab. You know the librarian on a first name basis. (And she cringes when you walk up to the counter).
You sometimes spend more in a month on library fines than you do on gas. Some days you learn just as much as your kids. The more information you give them, the less you seem to know. Most of all, Christian home schooling means you can’t get fired for teaching about God.