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The votes are in – we want to hear your woes.

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Jax Blunt
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It’s time for a blog carnival with a difference.

This time we aren’t looking for a celebration of home education. Or a defense of it. This time we’re looking to be out and proud with the bad days. The days when you think what on earth was I thinking of to do this? The days when you come close to ringing the local school and chucking your kids through the gates.

Because that’s the difficulty with choosing a different path. You kind of feel that you have to defend it, that you do have to always be better than the alternative. Even though kids are kids and we are all human and some days it would be better if we just didn’t get up.

So show me your warts and all please, and let’s accept that no one is perfect all of the time 🙂

(If your children use school and you’d like to join in with a tale of woe of a bad day please feel very free. I’m not into excluding ppl for their educational choices 😉 )

I’ve stuck up a linky, but if you prefer to post in the comments and me to do a round up post, that’s absolutely fine too. Please link back if you do write something specific for this carnival.

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10 responses to “The votes are in – we want to hear your woes.”

  1. stuart avatar
    stuart

    Jus the other week, I dint wash me pirate feet for over a week!!
    Yarr!!

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  2. globeonmytable avatar
    globeonmytable

    Well, I’m not sure if this post counts because it mainly concerns my schooled-by-choice-now son and it was the summer holidays anyway. It was the first and only post which sprang to mind, so there you have it, a crap day of mine. It felt like a very long day too…
    I try my best to keep the bad moments to myself, they go in my private H and T daily tracker diaries in full horrid detail so I can reflect and learn from them.

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  3. Jax avatar
    Jax

    thank you for sharing it. I think it is important to talk about the bad moments at least a little, so that we don’t feel isolated in having them!

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  4. Rita avatar
    Rita

    Done. I almost just linked to my other blog post about bad days, but as I have so many negative thoughts at the moment, it was easy to write a new one!!
    .-= Rita´s last blog ..One day… =-.

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  5. Debbie avatar
    Debbie

    My most recent post! (8/10) I couldn’t work out how to link to that specific post…

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  6. Jax avatar
    Jax

    @Debbie if you click on the comments link it takes you to a page with just that post on, then you can copy the url from your address bar. It’s this one I think warts and all
    Thanks for joining in – I’m about to comment on your post direct!

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  7. Rita avatar
    Rita

    My blog is down, so I accessed a cached copy and reposted here http://eightgomad.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-day.html
    .-= Rita´s last blog ..One day… =-.

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  8. Tbird avatar
    Tbird

    I did it! Have added it to the Linky

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  9. KellyI avatar
    KellyI

    How weird – I write a blog post about having a bad day and huzzah – here I find that you are having a linky on this very subject!
    Count me in then 🙂
    .-= KellyI´s last blog ..boys – all they want to do is play =-.

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    1. Jax avatar
      Jax

      @KellyI thanks for joining in 🙂

      Reply

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