It is Home Education Week, and I am supposed to be thinking about the secret to my success. I’ve got a lot going on today, and something really cool  that happened this morning. I got a call from a stranger telling me that I had a great kid. More on that later. I’m doing too much grinning to write. I’m not claiming that I got that call because of anything I’ve done. As a parent, I do the best I can, and pray that it all comes together. Some days it does. Other days I want to move to Australia. Alone.

So the secret is….I have no secret. Maybe keep a good sense of humor. And that let me to wondering about something. As homeschoolers we hear a lot about socialization. If we go overboard in any direction, it just might be in the area of socialization to make sure we can answer the endless questions with a coherent answer. ”Oh, yeah, well we formed a debate/swim/cycling/lego-building club and won the spelling/geography/math competition 16 years in a row WHILE we were participating in 12 sports and running for Congress. Before breakfast. With participants of all ages. Yep, that was us.” 

Now I find out we can outsource all of it. Yeah, all of it. Ok, one of these examples is not for real, but the othes are true. True, I tell you. And I suspect the hoax would be true if someone could figure out how to do it.

So if you aren’t into socialization, or if you want to get more time in at the office, how about just outsourcing childcare altogether? (HT: Just Enough, and Nothing More)

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It may seem like a joke, but you can outsource anything and pay for that personal touch. There are folks who pay people to potty train their children or pay others to teach their children to ride a bike. Then there is the booming surrogate business in India. Once they are grown, you can farm out elderly folks for a discount  if you send them overseas.

Shoot, some people even send their kids off to be educated indoctrinated by strangers every day.

But seriously, if you can go to India and buy an egg, rent a womb to raise it in, hire countless people to train your child, and then send the kid to boarding school, why not just sponsor a child in a foreign country and save all the trouble?

You can still post the kid’s picture on your refrigerator.

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