A Page Off My Mom's Blog...

My Mom shared this very funny post with me (it's a few years old), and I thought it was funny enough to post here:

Sometimes you meet a homeschooler that is absolutely convinced that their very average child is an absolute genius.
I met one the other day and just wanted to slap the woman into reality. I have met their average 8 year old child several times.
She's normal, a bit spastic, fun, and pretty much right on target for her age group.
Mom brags "she can READ!". Umm yeah. I hope so. "She can say her multiplication tables up to TEN!" well, good for her.
Then she goes on to explain the child's imagination. She can entertain herself for HOURS with a box of Legos.
This woman is convinced she is homeschooling because her child's genius cannot be trusted to anyone else. ::eyeroll:: Don't get me wrong, the girl is doing very well being home educated. But she's NOT an advanced student. She's a cute kid that mom could brag on WITHOUT trying to make her seem special. In my eyes that makes it look like she's not confident and trying to convince us that she's doing a great job.. and it has the opposite effect. In other words.. since she brags about her times tables, I'm guessing the kid struggled with them. I dunno.

Now that I mention this.. I am so embarrassed to admit this to all of you moms with uber children, but Luke IS struggling with the fine motor skills required in the advance neurosurgery class he is taking.
But after all, we could only get him into advanced molecular nuclear astrophysics last year, so it is no wonder his human genome theory phd is at risk.

I cringe that he is so sub standard!
We avoid any co-op right now so as to not have him faced with his own poor self esteem... perhaps we will show our faces again after he finishes that water powered automobile engine he has been building with Tinkertoys and Legos.
It was a childish whim, but we allowed it.


Comments:
Tiredmama wrote:

Apr. 29th, 2008 11:43 am (local)

You are so brave to admit this here. I'm really shocked that you allowed Luke to lower himself to working with legos and tinkertoys for the water powered automobile. If he continues to struggle, we have found that Kinex work a bit better than the tinker toys. I will weep with and for you that he's unable to keep up with advanced neurosurgery. Maybe he can be held back and relearn the basics this year. Again, I'm so sorry you have to deal with this blow to his self esteem and to your ability as a teacher. I'll pray for you. It sounds like you really need it.

Laurajg wrote:

Apr. 29th, 2008 02:19 pm (local)

Oh goodness.. he would be soo upset if he had to start all the way back at String Theory and I don't know that Steven Hawkings is still teaching it...