Gratuituous Picture Post!

[ciroccoj]

If you have dial-up... um, yeah. Sorry :(

Home schooling biology with Daddy







Our little chef






Horseback riding








Halloween

Comments

[ladystarstruck.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the sequence you chose for the pictures. Should cooking really follow right after frog dissection? Just what is Justin making?

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

classic.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Hhm?

::eurgh::

Oh, god. The mushroom omellette that does indeed look like a frogmellette.

And I ate it, too. EW!

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Love the photos. The boys halloween costumes are great. Horseback riding looks fun!

Sadly, in my overly-litigious region here, there's a "rider must be at least 9 years old" rule that all the stables seem to have agreed upon. If you want your child to learn to ride any younger than that, you need to buy a horse!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

The boys halloween costumes are great.
Thanks!

Horseback riding looks fun!
Yeah, it is. Though it's not always. They're learning way more about self-control than I expected them to, because as their teacher has pointed out, the horse is bigger, stronger, and more powerful than them in every single way that counts; the only advantage they have over her is their brains. And in order to use them properly, they have to be in control of their emotions and actions. They've both had a few crummy lessons that have basically boiled down to them not being in control of their own attitudes, and thus unable to control the horse's attitude.

Funny how you can try to get the concept of self-control across to your kids in every conceivable way, drawing upon your own life experience, childrearing books, fellow parents' advice, over years and years of parenting... and takes a horse one hour of balking at their commands to give them a more thorough and lasting and concrete lesson than any effort I've ever made over the last nine years as a parent.

Kind of humbling, really. Like so much of parenting.

Sadly, in my overly-litigious region here, there's a "rider must be at least 9 years old" rule that all the stables seem to have agreed upon. If you want your child to learn to ride any younger than that, you need to buy a horse!
That really sucks. Though most real stables around here have the same rule, I think. The place we go to is actually a fellow home schooling mom's home on the outskirts of Ottawa. And she's not really a teacher. She did have us sign an "I understand the risks" form, but I don't know how much that would be worth if anybody had an accident. Which would be a shame, because she's very safety-conscious and the only way somebody would have an accident would be if they were behaving like idiots.

[bandgeek.livejournal.com]

Man, that kid's got a stomach of steel. Frog dissection, yay! We grin as we examine the internal organs!

I did dissection my senior year of high school in AP Bio, and I didn't deal well with it at all. Granted, I was already a vegetarian by then, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. My whole lab group was a bunch of sissies. We made the girl who was going pre-med do all the actual touching, while another girl and I hid behind my friend Bill. You should have heard Bill shriek when we sort-of-accidentally exploded the fish eyeball.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Man, that kid's got a stomach of steel. Frog dissection, yay! We grin as we examine the internal organs!
I think it helps to have a doctor dad. Even though he's a shrink, I think Daniel probably absorbed enough anecdotes about anatomy dissections and bowel surgery during the years Chris was still doing medical stuff that it all seems quite normal to him.

I did dissection my senior year of high school in AP Bio, and I didn't deal well with it at all. Granted, I was already a vegetarian by then, so I'm sure that had something to do with it.
Heh, yeah. Chris said anatomy class really used to make him hungry, because when you didn't think about the fact that you were dissecting people, the stuff really looked like turkey.

Ugh. Would've turned me into a vegetarian, I think.

You should have heard Bill shriek when we sort-of-accidentally exploded the fish eyeball.
LOL!!!

[bandgeek.livejournal.com]

Chris said anatomy class really used to make him hungry, because when you didn't think about the fact that you were dissecting people, the stuff really looked like turkey.

You know, aside from public school biology-class trauma, I generally think of myself as a person who doesn't get grossed out that easily. Or at least, when it comes to theoretical things. I wrote a research paper on embalming. (The paper itself was pretty tame, but boy did I come across some interesting things in my research.) But that? That is absolutely disgusting.

Your children shall be spartans of modern science. :)

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

Disection looks facinating. I skipped my Jr. High School version of the class because I had heard a rumor that we had to kill our own frogs and there was no way on earth that I was going to do that.

I loved doing the fetal pig in zoo, though.

Grat pictures and I love the mad scientist/cook ones.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

I loved doing the fetal pig in zoo, though.
I didn't mind the frog, but for some reason the fetal pig made me sad. And I'm still grateful I never had to do the cats. Just seeing them in the biology room storage locker was enough for me. And I didn't even like cats at the time.

Grat pictures and I love the mad scientist/cook ones.
Hee, me too :)

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about the sad. If I had to do the cats that would have made me sad. I would have been facinated to see the inside but I would have cried as well.

Kitchen Safety

[(Anonymous)]

Cooking while standing on a chair isn't a great idea but if the budding chef simply must create, at least turn the chair around so the back is facing the stove! It's much safer that way. If his weight winds up on the front edge of the chair and it tips over, at least he won't do a face plant into the hot burner.