Thought this ought to go on a blog somewhere
April 18th, 2005 by Sarah
Merry posted this to the MuddlePuddle list yesterday but I just thought I’d pop it here too for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet:
More and more ordinary parents are teaching their children at home
April 18th, 2005 at 10:51
Great more positive press (mostly) for hser’s. I wonder what Deborah Simpson’s ‘clear objective’ is? I shudder to think. Shame they saw the ‘otherwise’ as a loop-hole. I think it clearly reads as an alternative ‘or’.
April 18th, 2005 at 12:30
It’s the pictures that annoyed me most.As I said on my blog I see this as more promotion of the ‘acceptable’ face of HE. I was just looking on Fluff and there are a number of replies from people saying how bad it made *them* feel about what they did. Not sure that a repeating presentation of HE like this *is* a good thing. We’ll end up with a National HE curriculum that the LEAs use to get people to do what they want to do. I can also see LEAs using this sort of stuff to inform how they think people should Home Educate. The more I think about it the more annoyed it makes me.
April 18th, 2005 at 14:30
Hmm, I’m not on Fluff, but I can imagine! Having not seen the photos it’s difficult to comment. We are going to end up with registration etc anyway, it’s inevitable, in my view.
April 18th, 2005 at 14:33
Well maybe, I didn’t see ‘the pictures’ so can’t comment. Surely its good to raise the profile of HE though? I actually thought the various families they used as examples were varied enough to make it impossible to dredge up HE curriculum myself.
April 18th, 2005 at 15:26
There’s another one in this week’s Woman too.
April 18th, 2005 at 15:45
What did I miss by not seeing piccies? Wishing I’d gone out to buy it now
April 18th, 2005 at 16:15
A good excuse to go and buy a trashy magazine
April 18th, 2005 at 16:54
Alison – nothing on this earth will convince me you are a Woman reader! We get the observer, I saw the pictures, I thought they were very sanitised, and nothing like our house. It would make me feel nervous that if we DID have visits, that’s what they would expect to see, and also that I might feel under some pressure to comply with. We aren’t usually doing gaming or TV watching, for personal preference, but there is an awful lot of jama wearing, lolling around, and general debauchery going on
April 18th, 2005 at 17:09
Oh goodie Joyce, now I feel normal – thanks!
April 18th, 2005 at 18:10
I absolutely can’t stand staying in my pyjamas any longer than necessary in the mornings! These ‘pyjama’ days are an anathema to me. The kids don’t seem to mind, they’d happily wear pyjamas all day but I make them get dressed. Otherwise you can’t go out at a moment’s notice (as I often have to). I’m like that with shoes, too, don’t like not wearing any. Very occasionally I wear slippers all day but only if I’m *really* slobbing out.
On the other hand I do like an early bath in the evening and to get into pjs early in the evening …
Did anyone want to know this? Can anyone tell I haven’t talked to another adult all day, and Steve’s not due home for another couple of hours?!!!
April 18th, 2005 at 19:33
I’m frequently in my jamas. Though i do need to put a bra on – last thing off, first thing on…..
April 18th, 2005 at 19:39
Joyce, the tip about Woman was on MP!
Hmmm, maybe that’s why it often takes us so long to leave the house- if the children were all fully dressed at all times, and we all had our shoes on, it would probably be quicker. I could put their coats on them too …
Nah, it’d never work, Elijah takes his trousers off every time he goes to the toilet!
April 18th, 2005 at 19:44
Small *has* been in his coat all day today – I think he likes it. Coat, sunglasses, one glove and wellies, odd wellies at that. But would he hold still long enough for a piccie?
April 18th, 2005 at 20:10
Phew, Alison
I was very challenged by that. I’m no mail on MP atm
April 18th, 2005 at 20:22
Well, I have to say that if I get to the stage where I need to put a bra on when in jama’s I tend to concede defeat and get dressed. I generally find that being in my jamas after lunchtime is pushing the boat out, but most days I just happen to find that by the time I’ve grabbed someone to do some reading, cleared the breakfast things, the mornings gone and I’m still not dressed!
April 18th, 2005 at 22:35
hmmm, i don’t feel ‘right’ in pjs in the morning, although the kids are often in them til gone 10am. i do get into mine at bathtime tho.
shoes – never, althogether too flylady
infact if i didn’t have to wear shoes at all i probably wouldn’t bother (perhaps i am a barefooted hippy at heart!)
bra – well i probably should wear one at all times including in bed like those magazine articles about preserving one’s cleavage recommend but i don’t…
now make up – ironically i wear less and less and am less anal about being seen without it the older (and probably more in need of it
) I get!
and finally, buying woman – can’t quite bring myself to do so! can someone laminate the article and bring it to hesfes!