Critics of homeschooling are quick to question how children learning at home find adequate socializing opportunities. With a little bit of effort, it's easy to find plenty of socialization for the home schooled student.
Faith-based communities are my family's favorite way to socialize. We go to church. Whatever your flavor of religious belief, I bet there are others looking for you and your children to befriend.
What is your family's favorite way to socialize?
Monica Brand is a home schooling mother of four in New Jersey. Visit her website Paper Bridges for more advice about how to home educate your children.
Originally posted on November 25, 2008.
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When we homeschooled we found no limit to possibilities for socialization. Wherever we went there were social situations to deal with, at the bank, grocery store, or library. We found opportunities to play with other children at playgrounds, beaches, ponds and while hiking in the woods. Large and small groups formed to go on field trips to museums, library story hours and historic sites. As homeschoolers, children have the opportunity to learn social skills in much more varied locations and usually with a higher concentration of adult role models.
When we homeschooled we found no limit to possibilities for socialization. Wherever we went there were social situations to deal with, at the bank, grocery store, or library. We found opportunities to play with other children at playgrounds, beaches, ponds and while hiking in the woods. Large and small groups formed to go on field trips to museums, library story hours and historic sites. As homeschoolers, children have the opportunity to learn social skills in much more varied locations and usually with a higher concentration of adult role models.
We enjoy our co-op and AWAWNA, which meets at the same church as our co-op, so it has many homeschooled kids, as well as public school kids.