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botiasI started out by taking 3yo and 1yo on an outting. A local homeschooler was hosting a singer/storyteller type and I thought it might be fun. It was actually more like Sunday school for liberals. Now, I consider myself liberal, culturally at least. Anyone can tell you, I am not a h8er. Peace, love, healin', it's all good, but somehow when people pull out their guitars and start singing and proselytizing about them, it shorts something in my brain. I feel vaguely guilty about this but... there you have it.
3yo put his hands over his ears and curled up in a ball on the floor saying "Too noisy!". So we left. (Grandma observed in a bewildered tone that he was transfixed by Disney On Ice though it was very loud. Probably some sort of corporate mind control.)
Later we all went to the annual Science Night at the local community college which was fun. Yay! I learned the identity of some local rocks I'd been wondering about, bought a cool plant from the ag dept, 3yo scored a plastic cockroach for which he has declared his undying affection, live raptors, exploding gummi bears, trebuchets, all good things. :)
3yo put his hands over his ears and curled up in a ball on the floor saying "Too noisy!". So we left. (Grandma observed in a bewildered tone that he was transfixed by Disney On Ice though it was very loud. Probably some sort of corporate mind control.)
Later we all went to the annual Science Night at the local community college which was fun. Yay! I learned the identity of some local rocks I'd been wondering about, bought a cool plant from the ag dept, 3yo scored a plastic cockroach for which he has declared his undying affection, live raptors, exploding gummi bears, trebuchets, all good things. :)
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Date: 2006-10-21 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-21 07:24 pm (UTC)gratuitous trebuchet userpic
Date: 2006-10-21 10:44 pm (UTC)And yeah - if it's not advertised as a religious recruiting festival, it really shouldn't be, y'know, a religious recruiting festival. Unless they've also got a chick with a guitar singing about the Joys of Judaeism, and the Wonders of Wicca, and the Holiness of Hinduism, etc. etc. And even then I wouldn't be into it because, OMG people, I'm here with little kids who want to hear stories about duckies and bunnies, not blood-soaked sacrifices to the One True God, okay? Jeez.
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Date: 2006-10-21 11:15 pm (UTC)It wasn't religious that way, though I know many homeschoolers are, (I'm sure these folks are rabidly Unitarian if anything) it just struck me as preaching a doctrine. The first song was something like: Peace is flowing like a river, the desert captives are free, love is flowing like a river... *bzzt bzzt brain shorts out* I was expecting kid songs which... tend to be about blood-soaked duckies and bunnies...