Yep pretty quirky parenting but not all my decisions ... more like best responses to unusual situations.
How many kids have to mediate between bogan ville, professor ville, schizophrenics floating around, other people's fancy consumer tastes, a mad mum and people dropping dead? Where was the help and support?
My girls went to school, though one didnt go much if I wasnt doing everything for her. The other is a worker and a real professional.
It would have been easier for me if they did go to normal school ... but it wasnt a normal situation.
You dont have to sing if you dont want to @PeppiPatty I only started singing late in life. I offered to get son a motorbike and do more blokey things and would have been just as happy to do science, not quite as qualified though. I would have figured things out.
Dont you think I was creative in turning up all the options? We did state school, catholic school, private school, select entry school (for daughter) and I tried official home-school like correspondence school, but they didnt help, so it all fell on my quirky initiative. The dad rejected autism school offered by the shrink.
How about this ... the home school girl's dad worked in home school section of the Ed Dept and admitted that there was a clerk who had not been doing their job properly and over a years worth of emails from parent were not replied to or something ... he got the sack ... and we and many others fell through the cracks.
I phoned and sent emails again and again to the Education Department, eventually I gave up. I am over being impressed by anybody who tells me they have a job ... or fancy shoes ... good on them ... I been working bloody hard too: Using my body, my brain and my heart.
