The
type of education my husband and I provide our kids will be an ongoing discussion until they
are no longer in our care. The past two
assignments, we strongly considered homeschooling but decided on public. It has been good. I miss taking our daughter to cool places during
the day and having time to do 'lessons' at home with her younger siblings, but she loves school and we see
her growing and maturing academically as well as socially.
Our
consideration to homeschool is not driven by creating a sheltered life for our
kids, but I understand why it is for some.
Relinquishing control over your child's education is scary because their
education is not just academics, it is daily interactions of social skills, etiquette,
morals, beliefs and so much more.
Recently, the middle finger was a topic of her daily-interaction education.
She and her dad were playing a ridiculous snatching game where they pretended to steal each other's nose (yup, it is weird). He
was underhandedly trying to get me to
join, but I was not interested. As my daughter went to grab her dad's schnoz, he stopped her and said, "I have a pleasant, well shaped nose that is hard to grab, but
mom's large nose would be easy to hold onto."
Slightly
offended, but mostly not wanting to play the game, I responded while gesturing,
"I
guess your nose is similar to my pleasantly shaped middle finger."
Our daughter jumped right on board holding her finger up to my husband,
"mine is well shaped too!"
He looked at me, "thanks for that."
(me laughing)
"Baby girl, I was wrong. It
isn't a good idea to wave your middle finger in the air at someone....."
The discussion continued while I stifled my giggles and guilt and taught
her about obscene hand gestures (and forgiveness). I figured the middle finger would be
introduced by peers at school, but nope, it was me.
I guess, in a way, I am
homeschooling.
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