Probably the most common question home edders get asked is ,
"But what about the kids' socialisation?'
What they really are asking is "How will your kids cope in the 'real world'?" (Read as... they are not spending most of their day with 30 other children within a year of their own age.)
um...doesn't sound much like the "real world" to me.
Anyway...now and then we meet up with some other socially maladjusted home ed families. One of the things that reminds me why home ed is a great choice for our family is watching a group of children from 6 to 15 year olds play games together, all having fun and all joining in.
It is rare to see the average teenage boy laughing as he helps a little one play stuck in the mud or to willingly hang out with his siblings on an afternoon. Some might say it is weird, abnormal even.
For me, it is something precious. Our culture values individualism, and we readily split up the family for age segregated programmes and events. Maybe if we spent more time mixing with others outside our immediate peer group we would learn more about ourselves and others.
2 comments:
Amen Sister! It is such an age old question.....one Marcella and I have had to answer MANY times as homeschooled teenagers. Isn't it cool seeing the age spread getting on like a 'family'.....don't know any families with 30 6-year-olds!
yeah, i hear you. and i love that our kiddos love hanging with bubbas and old ladies...
("...old lady who?"
lol, that's a punchline from a daft yodelling joke. sorry!)
and aren't scared to chat to grown ups...
or maybe they all just got my bolshy-gene??
mwah X
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