What's the most unusual AND practical thing you've learnt in homeschooling?

Question

What's the most unusual AND practical thing you've learnt in homeschooling?

Answer 1

The most unusual AND practical is the same for us:

Trust one's instincts when it comes to learning.

Answer 2

The most practical thing I have learned is how to take care of myself and others.  I don't know how many of my friends graduated highschool (and college) not knowing how to sew a button back on a shirt, cook a real dinner, do their own laundry, iron a shirt for an interview, the list goes on and on.  The most unusual.... I don't know, honestly.  Maybe teaching myself to read upside down?  I actually practiced reaading things upside down when I was little to see how fast I could get.  That's not very impressive, I know, but when I was seven that was a big deal for me.

Answer 3

nOTHING, WHY?

Answer 4

lets see.... how to cook, how to start a prom from scratch, how to make C4 from chicken p**p (though i haven't acctualy done it....)

Answer 5

How to grill a hamstring.

Answer 6

who cares

Answer 7

We've learned some pretty weird stuff just by following our kids' curiosity.  At Christmas, we read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson.  There was a part in the story when one of the Horrible Herdman children stuck a p*ssy willow in his ear and it sprouted.  Now that it's spring, my kids have cut up a straw into two inch segments.  They made them dark inside by wrapping tape around them and they stood them up in play dough, blocking one end.  They picked some p*ssy willows from our tree and shoved them down in the straws.  Every day they drop a bit of water down each one.  They're trying to reproduce an ear canal to determine if you really could sprout a p*ssy willow in your ear!  That's probably one of the strangest things we've done.  As for practical, my kids have really grasped and implemented independent study.  Even my six year old is capable of taking a level appropriate assignment and finishing it by himself. They really have an "I CAN" attitude.  They have also really embraced reading and literature.

Answer 8

there is no homeschooling in my country..even the kids with disabilities have to go to a school..but i am lucky that there is homeschooling in america..and i am full of pride..and very content that bush visited my country..i consider him quite good president in some parts..of it..like part of education..

because homeschooling is a best proof of democracy, because parents have the right to educate the kids according to their will and morality..and not sending the kids to the teachers who give the morality they want..cos their kids are not born by their teachers..right?

besides..since the school...is arrogant and besides the classical information.the teachers authors of manuals introduced their evolutionist views over existence as being undeniable truths..it is a matter of common sense that we would wish to offer kids..the teachings we wish..not some crazy belifs of some teachers..who think they are gods..of the disciplenes