Home School Wk 17

I love homeschooling my daughter. Each week she continues to impress me. She has worked hard these past 17 weeks and I am just so proud. I give her a lot of work. She says I give her more work than she was given in traditional school. I don’t know about that. The only thing I do know is I don’t want to fail my daughter. Taking on the task to educate my daughter is not as challenging as I thought it would be. I guess this is because I am having so much fun. I enjoy the material. As an almost forty year old I love learning about things I did not care about when I was in school. I was like my daughter where I loved art class. I did like math and science, but only because I did not really have to study for those classes. I had a hard time studying. I believe that is why I understand my daughter so much.

In history we continued to read about slavery. My daughter is tired of learning about slavery and women’s rights but her curriculum is United States history. So much of United States history revolves around slavery so it is what it is. I myself find the slavery issue very interesting and how people knew slavery was wrong, but it seemed ending slavery was not as simple as simply declaring slavery over. Slavery took jobs from white workers. I am sure a slave owner would rather have a slave working the land than to have to pay someone. The text referenced Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I read a lot when I was a child but I never read Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Maybe one day I will. I won’t torture my daughter by making her read it. I look at slavery from putting myself in a slave’s shoes. Freedom is priceless.

The science discussion focused on Earth science. I always hated Earth science and as I review the material I think to myself, how boring! I don’t reveal my feeling to my daughter but I know she thinks the same.

I had my daughter create a power point on lung disease. She did a magnificent job. Her power points are beautiful and creative. Next week is her winter break and I think we both need it to refresh. Working full time and homeschooling full time is rewarding but draining.

As always looking forward to next week, break!! Yippee!

Over and out 🙂

What it feels like

It’s too bad we live in a world where people do not feel like equals. I grew up in a household where I did not feel equal to everyone else. I can’t begin to describe how it made me feel to be treated different. I can’t begin to describe how I was constantly reminded because I was adopted I was treated like an outsider, I was treated like a pariah. I grew up feeling very sad.

I am not a lesbian but that does not mean I am better than a lesbian. I am straight and that word is so stupidly moronic! Who really is straight in all aspects of life anyway? The opposite of straight is crooked. Are homosexuals crooked? Fuck no!

Generalizations or character descriptions are dumb because those descriptions box people in. Black, White, Asian, Gay, Straight, Christian, Atheist…

Why can’t we just be humans who are all different? Why can’t we just accept people for what they are and not shun them or judge them? It would be nice if we could all walk in each other’s shoes for a time and then we would see how people really feel.

My point is all people should feel equal regardless of the descriptions. Throughout history people have always had to fight for equal rights and it’s really fucked up. Women fighting to be equal to men. All the racial struggles and the struggles homosexuals have to fight. Why does life have to be a fight?

I am a black woman. I am also a mother of three beautiful daughters. I am a human being who loves all people regardless of race, gender, sexual preference, religion, etc…

Though I do not face the struggles that homosexuals face I have walked in the shoes of knowing what it’s like to feel out in the cold. If every person in this world had to experience what it feels like to be out in the cold, just wanting to be equal maybe equality will be a reality for all.

Over and out 🙂