sdgregory

I'm married and have kids so I got just about anything a man could want

never run

I knew when I said it that it wsa wrong but the right word was escaping me. Although capital punishment would surely scare em straight!

I tried snowboarding. Thought it would be like skateboarding, which I did all through High School. Nope, not even close and got hurt and it was cold and I hate cold so I gave it up after two tries. Still got this gear that I bought and have been thinking about selling. Might be able to buy a few jumps with the money.

Liz, The most frustrating part is when you first begin or relocate to a new school district the goverment tries to interfere. Or neighbors call the authroities because your kids are out playing when other kids are in school. (Our kids finish by noon). When we moved to Columbus we sent letters to everyone of our neighbors to inform them that we homeschooled and they would see school aged children playing in the yard during school hours in the hopes to curb the visits by authorities. Did not work. We have a sign on both doors to the house from HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) which is a group of lawyers dedicated to protecting home school. It basically says if you have come to harrass or interfere with out right to homeschool do not knock. We are member of HSLDA and are exercising our right to homeschool. HSLDA will file suit if you fail to comply with all applicable laws pertaining to this right. Or soemthing to that effect. And let me tell you, HSLDA does not play around. They take action as soon as we call them with a complaint. Every homeschooling parent needs to be a member of this group. It costs 80 dollars a year and buys you an incredible amount of legal protection and representation. They know their stuff and school districts know they do. As far as the other walls like kids taking for granted that the teacher is Mommy. (Had to deal with that with my son.) Yeah but just think, you can whack em if they get out of line. Actually I have a strict rule that when it is school time, Mommy is not Mommy she is teacher and Daddy is the Principal and Daddy believes in capital punishment. Never even had to spank my son, after I made this rule he straightened right up.

LMAO! hmmmm...... and who do you think prompted this poll?

yep you are right. The good news is since I last checked we are up to 21! Woohoo a warm spell!

Okay I just found one entirely by accident and now I am curious how many I have missed and how many are out there? Common you wanna be spies, fess up.

I'm thinking come spring or "Find a job back home! (FL)"

Total Questions: 100 Questions answered Yes: 19 Maximum possible Score: 100 Score: 20 Percent impurity: 20 Percent purity: 80 Explanation: You answered "yes" to 20 of 100 questions, making you 20% Sex100 (80% non-Sex100); that is, you are 20% in the sex domain (your purity is 80%). Hmmm this is not really that acturate since things like "Had sex without the use of birthcontrol" was yes and umm gee I am married and have kids. I think they should rethink this quiz to make it more accurate.

Hey Clay what's it like in CLeveland? Here in Columbus it is 11 degrees. I hate winter in Ohio

I cannot remeber where the Story was, I will link here if I find it, but I read it years ago. I think it was a Stanford University study on homeschooling and it showed that many colleges were heavily and actively recruiting homeschool kids into their ranks. The main reason cited was that Homeschool kids grow up in a more Socratic learning environment. Socrates never answered a question directly in his life. He answered questions with leading questions designed to help his students FIND the answer on their own. This leads to a more eager discovery of knowledge. It is the system most homeschool parents employ. As an added benefit, the study showed that homeschool kids are much more likely to be self starters because that is the learning process they developed. That does not mean we homeschool parents sit back and just let them do all the work. We just lecture less and are able to give more INDIVIDUAL time to each student because there is not a 30:1 or greater student to teacher ratio and we get much more than 50 minutes a day with each class.

JIMBO! There are many things we disagree on butthis one is not one of them. One of the things I hear most often when someone finds out we homeschool is "what about socialization?" The truth is that prior to Public schooling human social contact for the first 10-15 years of life was almost entirely family contact. Second to that was contact with the people of the small town, village or tribe one was a part of. We spent most of our time amongst LIKEMINDED individuals and learned a better sense of self-esteem and acceptance. Also we learned a larger sense of responsibility toward each other. This is the huge benefit of Homeschooling. We do get our kids social contact with a large homeschooling group, my kids are in organized sports through city or optimist leagues and my oldest just started her first job. The key is that in the early formative years and the troubled teen years they are in environments where there is little peer pressure of the negative sort. More importantly they are not subject to the meanness of the kids in public school because even though they are among kids of different race, color, economic and religous background they are among kids who are very much like them in attitude and experience, allowing for an acceptance in deifferences. Homeschool kids as a group (remember there are exceptions in EVERY group) tend to be more secure, self motivated and more positive than their public school counterparts (as a whole). Glad you have seen that and recognized it.

Oh it is a joke now. My oldest had a tough time with math and we tried to tutor her at home. By the time we realized there was a problem she had gotten her first F. We worked with her as much as we could but as we would get her to understand one concept the class moved on to another and we were always behind. The harder it got the further behind she fell. We asked the School to help by holding her back and they would not. We asked for special instruction and they refused because they said she was not FAR enough behind. WTF? After fighting the system for four years she was three years behind. It was destoying her emotionally. We finally got the school to agree to hold her back. This was right after 7th grade. Then just before school starts we got a later and it said: "Due to your daughter's PHYSICAL developement we decided that she should not be held back and we are advancing her to the eighth grade." That's a direct quote (We kept the letter). We were pissed. I called the school and got the same response verbally. I asked them "So you are saying that because my daughter has grown tits you are advancing her?" They said that no it was due to her physical maturity. Sound slike it's because she grew breasts to me. So we decided HOMESCHOOL. In three years she is at and about to pass her grade level in Math as well as doing superbly in other courses. Needless to say we pulled the other two out too. Home schooling is really the only option for parents anymore, if you can juggle the work schedule it creates.

You know wendy, I just reread the inital post and you are right. I am wrong. Let's see how many people point that out BEFORE they read this post

Use a lawyer. It costs a pretty penny but you will avoid any common pitfalls that are made by self-patenters.

Anyone remember Soleil Moon Fry? So Is she Sun Fry or Lunar Fry?

No, not Murphy's fault, he just noticed certain anomolies in life and found the pattern. Kinda like Newton's Laws. He did not create the laws as much as he discovered the patterns

I think you two are missing the spirit of the thread

Sean, I think you just didn't want it to stop - as if I haven't noticed that you enjoy a good political thread. Ah but if you look at my recent posts, I have been avoiding them lately, or at least avoided voicing my opinion. Man I cannot wait.

Good advice, if you are too embarrassed to ask, err on the side of caution and wear a suit if you have it or atleast slacks, long sleeved shirt and tie.

Well when you put it that way . . . I stand corrected

Hop and Pops are easy off a Cessna 182. I did my second that way. My first one went, well search for it, I got lucky.

Damn, suckered me in too. And here I thought I was smarter than the average bear. Oh wait skydivers as a group are smarter than the average bear so that means that . . . oh okay I can live with that. Glad to hear you gave up such unsafe activity. I just recently gave up peeing standing up. It is one of the most dangerous activities. There is the splatter effect, then there's the fact that npo matter how hard you shake it the last few drops always seem to run down your pants and then there's this whole toilet seat issue. My wife threatened me with a shotgun to the groin so that I would not be ABLE to pee standing up. This highrisk activity is not worth it and I am giving it up.

I've always been called Chris instead of Christopher. When I hear Christopher, I think I am in trouble with a nun. Chris See that is where middle names come in. If My mom yelled Sean I knew she just wanted something. If she yelled Sean Derek, I knew I forgot to do soemthing. If She yelled Sean Derek Gregory, I snuck out the window and did not come home for four hours. As far as Parents naming them Zachary to call them Zach I think it is right the parent picks the nickname. I actually get pissy when people nickname my kids. I named them Tabitha, Sean, and Patrick not Taby Seany and Pat. GRRRRRR. and their nich names are Toot, Seany Sean, and Paderack. Anyone calls them anything else I sock em in the nose.