Flu Season

Recently, one third of our public school children were out sick with the Swine Flu. This is yet one more advantage to home-schooling. First of all, Connor has been sick only once since we began to home-school a year ago. I'm not even going to bother getting Connor the flu vaccine this year. He simply doesn't get exposed to quite as many viruses. I can also carefully monitor his hand-washing, his diet, and his sleep and exercise. All these, I'm truly convinced, make the difference in a child's health. Our friends' kids seem sick all the time, and we are very rarely sick with anything. Secondly, when Connor is ill, our school day doesn't just cease. Unless he's vomiting, Connor continues to read. And even ill, Connor can play on the computer; this translates to games on Biology4kids or freerice.com. Today is Connor's birthday. Do I miss sending in sweets for his celebration? NO!! We work very, very, very hard to provide our children with healthy diets that do not include excess sugar, dyes, and artificial everything. At public school there seems to be a party for something practically everyday. When he was at GCS, I just couldn't prevent Connor from consuming junk quite regularly.Even the school lunches were often based on junk food. A pretzel with artificial cheese sauce is a balanced lunch? Now, since it is his birthday,I will take Connor out to lunch at a Japanese restaurant. Tonight, I will let Connor bring in a birthday treat to his Tae Kwon Do class. He can celebrate with his TKD friends, and then get back to healthy eating tomorrow. Yippee.