Your child might be a homeschool candidate if ...

If you are thinking about homeschooling but aren't sure yet if you want to take the plunge, there are some things to bear in mind. Above all else, homeschooled kids are unique, special, bright -- and sometimes scary smart. Here's a list that might help you decide if homeschooling is the right thing for your child. Your child might be a candidate for homeschool if ... When you watch "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," you catch him saying things like, "Ah yes, the Chronicles of St. Anselm," or "Alexandretta? Highly doubtful." He determines how much milk to pour into his cereal by calculating the ratio of Cheerios' nutritive values to his anticipated playtime energy needs in Joules. He not only understands Einstein's Theory of Relativity, but is working on a video documentary that will, quote, "blow the lid off the Einstein conspiracy." He can recite the names of all American presidents in order of height. For his third grade English essay he chose to write a 30-page report on the whimsy of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" -- in Middle English. He has nearly perfected his gourmet recipe for Beef Wellington a la Peanut Butter for chemistry class. He has ever explained that leaving the lid off the blender while making a milk shake was not an accident, but merely a test of chaos theory. The family pet has ever been an unwilling participant in your child's study of genetics. He has built a working flux capacitor into the family minivan. The United Nations has designated your child as ambassador to outer space, just in case. Light bedtime reading for your child is a chapter out of "Moby Dick." He laughs at the jokes in Shakespeare. He knows the last digit of pi. The messy piles of toys and clothes in his bedroom are actually a map of the molecular structure of a new element he calls "Madeitupium."