You know you're homeschooled if....

Most of you know that we homeschool and have since our oldest daughter (now 21) was in fourth grade. We started when we moved to Georgia and our two younger children have never known anything but homeschooling. This is our 12th year of homeschooling.

Anyway, homeschooling is a culture within itself and has it's own language and with that we get lots of questions; not as much anymore, now that our kids are growing up. But, with that in mind, here is a list of the more familiar and humorous questions and comments we've experienced.

You know you're homeschooled if:

1. the children have been asked why they don't go to a "real" school. (no, our school is not real - it's make believe.)
2. You can go to school in your pajamas, also teacher can show up in her P.J.'s (yeah!!)
3. People ask how do you "socialize", do you have friends, do you know other people? (no, we're actually trying to raise a bunch of deranged sociopaths to send out into the world.)
4. People ask what time we get up in the morning (well, we get up around noon, eat and then go back to bed and sleep the rest of the day.)
5. People ask why you're not in school, especially if the children happen to be grocery shopping with mom during "normal school hours". (well, isn't going to the grocery store a great place to learn math skills?)
6. People assume that the children get all "A's" because the parents are so lenient (yeah, right!!)
7. Mom gets asked frequently if she is "educated" enough to teach her children at home. (no, I'm really a kindergarten drop-out - but don't tell anyone, I might get reported to the uh... who?)
8. Is homeschooling legal? (no, we're doing it all incognito, don't follow any rules and live out in the country so no one can find us.)

Benefits of homeschooling from Mom's perspective:

1. The teacher gets to kiss the principal in the faculty lounge and no one gossips.
2. You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear.
3. If you get caught talking to yourself, you can claim you're having a PTA meeting.
4. If your child gets drugs at school, it's probably Tylenol.
5. We can take vacations when everyone else is in school.
6. All humor aside, I absolutely love my children and love having them around!!