You Know You're Homeschooled If...

1. You heard the phrase "socialization" and laughed because you had more friends and knew more people than your public school friends.


2 You went to school in your PJs.
Not usually, but there were times when it was rather nice not to have to rush around and get dressed... :)


3 You considered school work after lunch to be cruel and unusual punishment.
Haha, wasn't it? Of course, it was my own fault, but such things didn't occur to my grade-school mind.

4 You had to move laundry off your desk before you could start school.
Or the dishes off the table, or the LEGO universe, or the doll dishes...
5 A snow day meant that you had to shovel the driveway after you finished your school work.
Either before or after - usually before. :P

6 You had to look at the clock to see if you could call your public school friends yet.
Or to see if they would be home to play outside. I grew up next door to a homeschooled family, so I was lucky. :D

7 You thought that “public-school-kid” was an insult of the highest degree.

8 Your friends talked about waiting in line for seven hours to try out the new roller coaster in town, so you went and waited five minutes on a school day.
Not the roller coaster, but yeah, we did get a lot of school-hour benefits. :)

9 Gym class was actually a fun activity like swimming.
Or frisbee, or just playing with the neighborhood kids. 

10 The closest thing to a bully in your school was your slightly strange two-year-old sister.
Yeah, no joke.

11 You slept in till 9 am on weekdays but got up at 7 am on Sundays.
Oh, everyone I knew who went to school was jealous about that! 

12 Your favorite author was Jane Austen, G.K. Chesterton, or P.G. Wodehouse.
Umm, no. But, hey, I actually read books that weren't fantasy or science fiction for FUN!

13 You have suffered through Saxon Math.
Haha, soooo true! Those books were the plague of my childhood. And the color combinations they came up with! Orange and royal blue, mustard yellow, blue and that ishy gray-green color (:P)... We used to make jokes every year about who got an ugly math book and who got a pretty one. Fifth grade was the best because you got the pretty silver-and-blue one... :D 

14 You spent more than 2 hours each day reading and writing...voluntarily.
Only two? Good grief, I read more than an entire public school class combined! And writing...Oh yeah, I did that too. :)

15 You actually wanted to receive books on your birthday.
My relatives would have wondered if I was sick or something if I didn't have a mile-long list of books on my birthday or Christmas list. 

16 You stayed up till whenever, and not because you were doing homework.
Bedtime? What was that?

17 You could get days ahead in almost any subject.
You could also get days behind in almost any subject as well...

18 You had more friends way older and way younger than you than ones your actual age. 
That's one of the best things about being homeschooled. There isn't any class warfare. :)


'Till next time!