Announcing…
The Truth About Socialization in Homeschool Facebook Party!
We will be partying on Tuesday, November 13th at 7pm(Central) at Blessed Beyond a Doubt!
This topic seems to be one of the most frequent asked question or concern in the homeschool community. Whether you need encouragement, or want to know the facts, or would love to share your homeschool journey testimony, we know you will have fun and will meet many new friends.
We have been partnering up with Great Products who are excited to share their own personal expertise as successful homeschool graduates AND to offer our readers door prizes and a a fabulous GIVEAWAY! You will not want to miss it!
I hope you are ready to have FUN, fellowship, and gain some REAL socialization in homeschooling insights from the seasoned homeschoolers and veteran homeschool graduates!
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I can’t wait to to party with you and glean the truth about socialization in homeschooling!
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HI Jill,
This is my first visit to your blog. As a 17-year homeschooling veteran, I cannot pass up homeschooling posts! In my devotional book, Joy in the Journey, one of my devotions is on socialization. It’s probably a slightly different take on what most of your moms will be saying. As a support group leader for 10 years, I had many opportunities to watch homeschooled students socialize, and I noticed a few things that concerned me. Granted, they weren’t concerns that homeschooling caused, just concerns that I felt I needed to encourage parents to train their children to overcome. I’d love to share the devotion with you privately. It might provide some food for thought leading up to your super-fun-sounding party. Wish I was still homeschooling!!!!! Some of the best years of my life 🙂
I don’t have a blog and I am not a homeschooling parent, but I just wanted to leave a short comment regarding this topic. My comment is: keep on homeschooling! I have been teaching at the university level for 13 years. During that time, I have worked with many home schooled young people. They have been among my most well-prepared and mature students. If anything, I find them to have better social skills than average. Somewhere along the line, we have acquired the idea that children can only be socialized properly if they are placed in a classroom with lots of other children. Children are socialized by adults; not other children. It is adults who model appropriate behavior, language and manners. The home is the ideal place for this; you are your child’s first teacher. I hope you and other home schooling parents will not be swayed by well-meaning friends or relatives who try to frighten you into giving up on homeschooling due to the dreaded socialization “problem”. I wish you and other homeschooling families all the very best and I hope someday to meet your children in my university classroom.
Oh! I wish I could join in on these parties. I’m a half-day ahead of you all (or more, depending) – so I’m usually sleeping when parties go on. But to throw my two-cents worth in: My siblings and I were homeschooled back when homeschooling was still fairly new. Especially in our town. My dad lobbied at the State Capitol to get a homeschooling bill passed for our State. We were the only homeschooling family in our church. People thought we were odd, my grandparents thought my parents’ brains had been abducted by aliens…and we heard that “socialization” argument over and over and over. My parents carefully explained that we had friends (even outside of church), youth group, church…you name it. We were “well socialized”. But they followed that up with an argument of: what does that mean really? That children only hang out with other kids their age? Never learn to converse with adults, play with smaller children, relate to older children? What does this mean? That they learn things in school that go against the grain of what we believe? Learn how to swear or hear about adult topics too soon? They really gave people a lot of think about – and a few years later half our church was homeschooling as they realized the benefits of a different kind of socialization. The kind that helps children relate to people of all ages, the kind that protects our children for as long as we can, while giving them the proper tools they’ll need when they finally fly from the nest. The kind that exposes them to truth and only truth so when they are presented with a false image of joy, peace, happiness – you name it – they can discern it for what it really is. Now my sister and I live in a country where homeschooling is still illegal. She has older children (mine are still 1 and 2 1/2 yrs) and she has found a loophole that enables her to homeschool. Last year they were the first homeschooling family in the country. This year they added 5 new homeschooling families and have formed a small co-op. They pioneers are pioneering again. We’re lobbying to get the law changed. Arguing that most European countries not only allow homeschooling, but have recognized its benefits (Croatia is slated to join the EU soon – so this is a great argument for leverage!). Once again – we face the tired, old argument about socialization. My sister has a homeschooling blog and addressed this topic so well. I am looking forward to joining her in a few years. But for now – I must simply ward off the confused looks when people find out my kids do not go to daycare. However will they be socialized????
Thank you for linking up each week. I enjoying stopping by to visit your blog!! Have a great weekend!!