First, just let me say I am so sorry, Mrs G. This video will probably make your left eye twitch and set you off on a rant to end all rants ----I agree with you, okay ----please don’t stab me in the hand with a fork. But. This video made me laugh until I was sitting in a puddle of pee. After giving birth to three exceedingly large babies that is just what happens. When you are youthful and tight, you shoot milk out your nose laughing. When you older and, well, a MOTHER, you pee yourself laughing. But I digress. This one’s for Mrs. G., Suburban Correspondent, Fairly Odd Mother, Ree - and all the homeschool moms that defy stereotyping, like my own mother - who definitely was nothing like this implies. Her clothes were far more chic. Thanks, Mom for being a great role model, you democratic Lucy Stoner you!




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Do you think that family made that about themselves like to be funny?
I don't even know why I asked that other than I'm curious!
LOL
I'm not real sure? It is posted on youtube under stuff done by Tim Hawkins who is a Christian comedian/singer.
Ha! I don't know if it was supposed to make me WANT to homeschool more, but it did.
I only lasted one year at homeschooling. There are many, many reasons for that.
I am at a loss for words...and I will be sending it to all my homeschooling friends.
Recess in the foyer was my favorite.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go have breakfast at Hooters!
Thanks for the laugh!
Really funny. I tried homeschooling with my oldest son one year--we decided it wasn't for us--but maybe (if the video is any indication) we were just not doing it right!
Okay, I almost peed my pants and shot wine through my nose :) Fantastic!
Dear Mary Alice
I can't think of ANYTHING worse, I would be awful!
I take my hat off to anyone who can manage it!
My children went back to school on monday after three weeks holiday - and it's worth every penny!
DC
Do you mind! I almost peed myself just reading your blog! But I digress...
I have to say, homeschooling has changed a lot. When I was homeschooled it did indeed mean never leaving the house. Now homeschoolers are rarely actually at home, too much to do at the science center, children's museum, karate class, etc.
I'm committed to homeschooling my kids all the way through, wish me luck!
BTW Mary Alice, why is that that I always get a comment from you just as I'm commenting on your blog? Weird!
Marie: I don't know, but I feel like we have this weird California- homeschooled-one-time-Mormon- universal-metaphysical-connection going on. It freaks me out a little. We should meet sometime and see if like the universe aligns and angels and angels sing and world peace reigns or something.
I homeschooled for nine years. This is my first year not with all the kids in school. Thus... the blogging. I am bored out of my mind!!!
I myself was homeschooled all the way up through high school. I homeschooled my own kids for three years. It almost broke me. I needed time to myself, it was 24/7 and Military Man worked a 70 hour week - so I was it for EVERYTHING. I am not kidding when I say it nearly broke me. More power to those like my mother, that can do that so selflessly.
Tim Hawkins borrowed some kids from another family to have enough for the video (I read that somewhere). I love that video.
But while we're busting the Christian right-wing fundamentalist stereotype, could we destroy the martyr/saint/woman-without-a-life homeschooling stereotype while we're at it? There are many of us who like to homeschool our kids and who also have lives of our own. You don't have to be a pathetic loser who is overly invested in your children in order to home school. Honest.
Sorry. Pet peeve.
SB I agree - it should be knocked out. Not everyone is that way. However, I will say that in order to be a home school mom that IS able to have a her own life, you really do need to have an extended support network...a spouse that is able to invest time too - is a great start :-)
My own father was retired, when we were being homeschooled and was home all day - he did the grocery shopping, the laundry, the yard work, washed the dishes etc. The way both of my parents were able to share in the day to day work, really made a difference...in my own case I had idealized and wanted that life for my own kids...not realizing at the time that I was doing all the work that it took two of them to do. It wasn't that Military Man wasn't supportive emotionally, he was, but he couldn't be there physically to help. It was really too much for me.
"We ne-ver go to hoo-ters"...oh good heavens I'm gonna be singing that all night...FUNNY!
I had just mentioned to my husband your blog as "remember the one that always has the hilarious youtube videos?" How do you come across these things!
I have never taken the homeschool plunge for many of the reasons you have cited, plus it has never yet seemed right for us. For some reason I think it may be in our future, but time will tell. I do admire those who do it and do it well.
very cute!!
This was really funny, Mary Alice! Very well done!
Sorry. It just gives me the heebie jeebies and why are the women always so bloody plain and why do they always wear a headscarf? Why are they always crazy, creepy chritians?
I can't imagine any homeschoolers who love irreverence like me. Who of them love Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons and Bill Mahr? Prove me wrong..
Alice Band -
Maybe we come out in hives at the very thought of homeschooling because we too English.
We are pre-programmed with the thought that we should only see our children scrubbed and sweetly smelling at bedtime (how dreamy)?
Mary Alice is officially an Uber Mummy.
From DC (failed uber mummy)
DC - in their jamas? Ready for bed? Sounds fantastic! As it is, they are all home puking and I am struggling to get the boy motivated to swot for his exams. Homeschool them my arse!!!
Hilarious!
Alice Band
PJ's - Are you kidding? You should see what life here is really like, No 2 goes to bed in fancy dress leaving many discarded personas all over the bedroom floor.
Does anyone have any tips for training out drama queen tendancies?
Uber Mummy, Mary Alice - we need help! Could we ship the sprogs over for training from an expert?
DC
I wouldn't be much help with the dress thing. I let the Middle Child and her best friends sleep in theirs after the school dance and then took them to church the next morning still in them. I wondered if the old ladies would raise their eyebrows, but one actually pulled me aside and said..."I think God likes to see them in their dance dresses."
Dear Mary Alice
Oh, I love that - everyone here is far too straight laced!
Disappointed you aren't keen on the shipping idea!
DC
sign me up for recess in the foyer!
aw crap. now i have the addams family song in my head.
I love this! We do follow a classical format but that is about the only place I 'saw' our family. But, I think it is great that we can laugh at the stereotypes b/c they really are pretty silly.
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