Friday, October 3, 2008

Homeschooling (hooligan style....cough!) at its finest.....

In honor of being 7 weeks or so into the new schoolyear, let us pause (shaaaall we?) to appreciate a brief (yet typical) moment in the day of the (poor, tortured, overworked...) young hooligans. Here they are -- scrubbed, shining faces......engrossed in the acquisition of knowlege.....purposeful, serious students....... (heh heh).


Here we have young master hooligan, diligently doing his penmanship. Or...or...at least diligently sitting in a chair (actually an amazing thing, come to think of it!). Oh, and look! The finesse with which he *drinks* his applesauce (especially notice the elegant crook of the finger..). See how carefully he has nibbled away the inside of his toast, and ever so carefully nested the 2 crusts together. You'd think this child hadn't eaten breakfast a mere half hour ago! He is DEF-initely on track to finish that penmanship in a record 2 hours (assuming more personally pressing issues don't make it take longer)!


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And then we find H2, bless her heart, just all dressed, groomed, and rarin to go!! To her credit, that really is Algebra on the screen. And for all the evil minds working overtime out there, poor H2 despises Evil Mom Lady's camera and is merely hiding from it. OK, so we're working on being up and dressed (you know--real clothes?) by 8 am. One of us is anyway (and its currently NOT H2). Well, we're 50% there anyway. The ever present piggy is ........well......ever presently *helping* with the math. We all know (don't we???) that holding guinea pigs and listening to music while doing Algebra significantly increases retention? What? You didn't know that? Well, you've learned something new here at Hooligan Central! I'm sure all your eager Algebra students will want to rush right out and get a guinea pig to help them with THEIR math.


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Whew!! OK!! Finally! ONE hooligan actually wearing CLOTHES (yesssss!!!), and actually holding a pencil (yesss!!) and writing something down! You guessed it - Hooligan #3, as always, eschewing desks (nasty inventions), yet managing a minimum level of productivity.

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