You might be a Home-educator if.....

You Must Be a Home Educator If…

• You live in a one-house schoolroom.
• Your walls are covered with maps and timelines.
• You know what math manipulatives are.
• You have mold growing in your fridge.on purpose.
• Your preschooler can name all the planets, but doesn’t know who the Rugrats are.
• You’ve mastered the fine art of vacuuming a floor without sucking up a Lego or K’nex piece.
• You’re either an expert at doing the Lego dance – Ouch! Yeow! – or else you’ve resorted to wearing shoes around the house.
• You know the recipes for homemade versions of Play-doh, finger paint, and paste.
• Your students have to clear the breakfast bowls off the table before sitting down to do their school work.
• Your house is messy, but your kids are happy.
• You know that reverse psychology really works.
• Your kids publish their own family newsletter.
• You shop for birthday presents at educational stores.
• All you want for Christmas is a Barnes & Noble gift certificate.
• You’d rather buy books than clothes.
• Your friends don’t want to help you move because you have so many books.
• You turn a trip to the grocery store into a learning experience.
• You get nervous about what people will say when you take your kids to WalMart in the middle of the day.
• You have a standard one-minute speech to give to store clerks, mother-in-laws, and school officials about why you homeschool.
• You are sick and tired of answering the question, “But what about socialization?”
• For your wedding anniversary, you decide to splurge and get a photocopier.
• Talking out loud to yourself is the same as having a parent/teacher conference.
• When you see a parking lot full of mini vans, you wonder if there’s a homeschooling conference.
• You take your family vacation in September, when the beaches and theme parks are empty.
• You take a suitcase full of books along on your family vacation.
• You can never find your kitchen utensils because they’re out in the sandbox.
• Your kitchen doubles as a science lab.
• You are on a first name basis with your local librarian and bookstore owner.
• The UPS driver delivers a box of Scholastic books to your doorstep once a month.
• You know the scientific names of dinosaurs from A to Z.
• You’re willing to drop what you’re doing at a moment’s notice to go look something up in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
• You have ever vented for more than five minutes on the evils of standardized testing.
• You don’t get fired for teaching your students about God.
• Some days you learn as much as your students.
• The more your kids learn, the less you seem to know

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