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Quite the morning. I woke up around 10, because I was up until about 2 last night, just fooling around and being stupid online. I did get some Personal Progress done, and that felt really great; I didn't get everything done this weekend that I wanted to, but I did get a lot more done than I would have this time a year ago. Like, a lot more, and that felt really good. So anyway, back to this morning. I was taking some trash out when I came upon this absolutely adorable little cat, she was really just the cutest thing, and she was so, so friendly; I learned later on that she's one of the teacher's cats, actually the riding instructor's, so I'm anticipating further interaction with little miss cuddle. I took pictures of her for a while, and we just sat in the sun while I pet her, but after a while she went off after a grasshopper and I went back to taking pictures of other things. Then, when I was up by some of the maintenance buildings, this lady drives up in a car, asks me what I'm doing, and long story short, we ended up going up to the pond so I could take a bunch of pictures of her dog in the water. It was kind of funny; she just talked and talked and talked, but she was very nice. We ended up getting along pretty well, and she's invited me over to her house and everything. It turns out her husband is the grounds manager here.
So yeah, just a rather strange morning. And really, kind of a strange weekend all around. For some reason, I'm really into the whole concept of homeschooling right now; I've been looking stuff up, researching all weekend, and I gotta say, it's been interesting. I feel like parents have become entirely too detached from their kids' education. It's like we send our children off to these giant buildings, with hundreds if not thousands of other kids, and expect these strangers to teach them everything they need to know about life. And it's not like you learn everything that you need to in school anyways; when is there ever a class on mending clothes, or using jumper cables, or balancing a checkbook? We waste so much of our time sending our children off to places where no one ever focuses anyway, where most kids go to do or plan things like hooking up and drinking, and parents assume that we're going to get all the life skills we need just from doing that. I want to have my kids learning in a streamlined environment, where they learn (and learn well) the basics of what they need to function well in the world. I want to be able to be their primary educator, along with my future husband, and I want to educate them in a way where they really do understand the priorities in life, because that is where learning should start: in the home. I guess my only main concern with that would be how that would influence my children's social development, if that makes sense. I want them to grow up being familiar with the world, and fully capable of interacting with any and all people they may meet. I want them to feel confident in social situations, like they're capable of being dropped in a new place and getting to know people easily. I don't want them to fall into the stereotype of homeschooled kids: awkward nutjobs who don't have any friends. I want them to be normal, well-adapted children who just happen to understand that God ought to be the focus of all things we do.
Does that make me a nutjob? IDEK. Off to go finish APUSH homework and do laundry.
So yeah, just a rather strange morning. And really, kind of a strange weekend all around. For some reason, I'm really into the whole concept of homeschooling right now; I've been looking stuff up, researching all weekend, and I gotta say, it's been interesting. I feel like parents have become entirely too detached from their kids' education. It's like we send our children off to these giant buildings, with hundreds if not thousands of other kids, and expect these strangers to teach them everything they need to know about life. And it's not like you learn everything that you need to in school anyways; when is there ever a class on mending clothes, or using jumper cables, or balancing a checkbook? We waste so much of our time sending our children off to places where no one ever focuses anyway, where most kids go to do or plan things like hooking up and drinking, and parents assume that we're going to get all the life skills we need just from doing that. I want to have my kids learning in a streamlined environment, where they learn (and learn well) the basics of what they need to function well in the world. I want to be able to be their primary educator, along with my future husband, and I want to educate them in a way where they really do understand the priorities in life, because that is where learning should start: in the home. I guess my only main concern with that would be how that would influence my children's social development, if that makes sense. I want them to grow up being familiar with the world, and fully capable of interacting with any and all people they may meet. I want them to feel confident in social situations, like they're capable of being dropped in a new place and getting to know people easily. I don't want them to fall into the stereotype of homeschooled kids: awkward nutjobs who don't have any friends. I want them to be normal, well-adapted children who just happen to understand that God ought to be the focus of all things we do.
Does that make me a nutjob? IDEK. Off to go finish APUSH homework and do laundry.
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