You know you're a homeschooler when...

You ask for, and get, a copier instead of a diamond tennis bracelet for your wedding anniversary.

Your favorite Christmas gift was a gift certificate to a book store

Your kids think that reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog

The principal can give the teacher a pat on the behind and it's not harassment

Your kids will actually talk to grown ups at a family gathering and are actually patient with kids half their age

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

You can take the time to look at a tiny spider on a log,

You can listen to your childs favorite hilarious passage from Hank the Cowdog forty-seven times

Your daughter, who is practically a vegetarian, is begging her dad to shoot some starlings so she can pluck them and clean them up to make a "blackbird" pie just like the Ingalls family

Your kids learn new vocabulary from their extensive collection of Calvin & Hobbes books

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.

You're almost afraid to put your hand in your purse because you not sure if your 6yo has put something that's alive (or possibly not alive, but once was) to take home to view under the microscope.

Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference

You have a line item in your budget for overdue book fines.

You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear.

You have to add the words: "homeschool, homeschooler, and homeschooling" to your computer's spell checker so it will stop marking them as wrong!

Your house in on the Parade of Homes List - for educational merchandisers.

You can't make it through a movie without pointing out all the historical anachronisms.

You step on math manipulatives in your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom.

Your children refer to the neighborhood kids as "government school inmates."

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