Truthfully, there is a debate among homeschoolers. Some are more verbal than others, and I even have an opinion. The discussion involves penmanship. Is it important, or not? I have my carefully laid-out argument on the issue, which is not limited to fine motor skills and definitely includes receiving legible, gradable work from my boys.
So, on one particular day near the end of this school year I received a stream of assignments from my Habanero which were lacking in the fine motor control and reasonable penmanship department. Thinking I might apply the coming repeat performance “lecture” to real life, I chose to take what I thought to be a logical approach.
“Son, no one will hire you if they can’t read your handwriting,” I explained.
“That’s why I want to live in the w-i-i-i-ild!” he responded.
There’s nothing like a little “left-hand-turn-and-no-turn-signal” in a conversation, is there? He managed to bring the conversation to a standstill for a second. We did continue to discuss the merits of neatness…and my expectations for the work I would be grading.
To make this even more entertaining, on our walk that night, my little man said his dream house is “a log cabin, but no chimney (’cause animals can get in that way), and a fire pit.” He said he “might adopt someone so [he has] someone to live in the house with.”
When I suggested perhaps a woman and marriage, his response was, “I’m not sayin’ there’s anything wrong with women or anything, but she’ll make the house white, and all my buck heads would be replaced with CHINA!
Is that so? I promise you I don’t make this stuff up! *Insert good, ol’ belly laugh here!*
That’s my boy!
Too Funny!!
ROFLOL! Oh, that is good! :> )
*This* is my life. *lol*