I have read tons of "you might be a homeschooler if..." posts in bloggy world and I can relate to almost every single one of them. Some of them are pretty funny and all of them show the uniqueness of homschoolers. Instead of posting the same ones I've read before, I decided to share some examples from my own home. Feel free to share your own in the comments.
You might be a homeschooler if....
The kids ask "did you order school books?" anytime UPS is in the neighborhood.
Your kids say "the only Lady Gaga song I have ever heard was when preacher read some of the lyrics to us at church." and they are not afraid to explain to others why they shouldn't listen to it.
when your kids insist on getting the "Antony and Cleopatra" dvd even though dad is trying to convince them to get a cartoon movie.
you have ever heard "we haven't done school in awhile, can we please do some today?" in July.
you have to beat your kids to answer the door during school because they don't know the rest of the block is on spring break and you want to keep it that way.
you hear your kids say "You've never heard of the Barbary wars?!?" as they then explain them to their public school friends.
your kids negotiation techniques sound like "instead of cleaning my room right now can I just do some more math?"
when asked what grade he's in your son answers "7th-ish."
if you leave your computer and your son comes along and corrects the spelling in the blog post you were writing.
when you tell the kids to get the living room cleaned up and they immediately ask "Why? Who's coming over?"
when your doing school while others are out for a snow day but playing outside in the rain while everyone else is at school.
your kids think you've gone crazy if you say "we are only getting one book apiece at the library today."
your 8 year old can't tie her own shoe yet but can tell you who Julius Caesar was, recognizes a Roman Soldier in pictures, draw every phase of the moon, can explain why we can't live on Mercury or Venus, find the Mediterranean sea on every map, knows what country is shaped like a boot, etc. etc.....
It is no doubt that just because we homeschool makes us different from most and I love that. Just because our life is different makes it easy for the kids to go against the grain. They don't have to think as hard about not doing something just because everyone else does it. They don't worry about not being like everyone else. That is their whole life-constantly learning to stand alone.
