alwaysabeautifullife:

alwaysabeautifullife:

What people think homeschool looks like:

Me: hey why don’t you go play outside or read a book I’m trying to cook some muffins

Son: ok mom!

What homeschooling is really like:

Son: Mom, what’s microbial endosymbionts

Me: what

Son: microbial endosymbionts

Me:…um…read the whole sentance

Son: …pigments are produced by one of three ways ….rarely, microbial endosymbionts.

Me: I mean does it say in your text book what it is?

Son: no it talks about physical structural colors and how the colors are a result of like…light scattering, interference, and diffraction and it explains it…but for the pigment colors it just lists these and doesn’t really explain…

Mom: ok let me see…so it says here…oh I got it….look cartenoids, ommochromes, papiliochromes, pteridines, tetrapyrroles…and all these those must be the microbial endoayslimes or whatever they are called

Son: I’m pretty sure…those are all pigments “sequestering from a plant source”

Me: *blank stare*

Son: I guess I could look each one of them up…it’s just really inconvient it doesn’t say that in the book I guess

Me: *takes large sip of coffee* good grief if this is seventh grade you’ll be splitting atoms in 10th grade

Son: “10th grade homeschooler makes atom bomb on kitchen table”

For anyone who thought this post was fake (I wish it was too)