#4: People who decide to do something (home school! concealed carry!) and then decide that not only is it the best thing for them but then decide they must convince the whole world that it is the best thing of all things. Frequently accompanied by a tiresome desire to convert all persons in the vicinity to the One True Path. Look, if homeschooling (or being a Seventh Day Adventist/ vegan/ Holier Than Thou I Don't Feed My Child Sugar Just Dates And Fruits And Honey) is great for someone else's family, great. I don't want to homeschool; the thought gives me hives. And when someone tells me my kid's school, which their kid has never attended, will ruin his life because of some half baked article they read about Boys Don't Get Enough Movement, I get a little annoyed. (He's fine, by the way.)
Tell me how your nearest and dearest have confused What I Want with True Religion!
One of my pet peeves as well.
ReplyDeleteI was homeschooled K-12. Loved it. One of the best things that could've happened to my life.
ReplyDeleteHome-school my child? HELL NO! (All for purely selfish reasons: I'm a terrible teacher pre-college. Which is why I am a university lecturer, thank you very much. If I wanted to teach kindergarteners, I would've become a kindergarten teacher.)
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Meeeee tooooo. I'm pretty darn good at undergrads. Not so much with six year olds.
DeleteMy mother is obsessed with gut microbes. I think she believes that they are in control of the whole world. When I feed my children white flour or refined sugar she gets upset because she appears to equate any instance of white flour or refined sugar with a diet low in fiber and high in sugar. I'm like, FUCK, they just ate two cups of yogurt! FUCK OFF. But of course, the truth is, I wouldn't be so sensitive about it if I weren't worried about their diet. Despite the fact that they're healthy and active. SIGH.
ReplyDeleteBut there were all those STUDIES!
DeleteSpeaking of which, this: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations