Question for Home Schooling Kids

[dfrecore]

That's just awesome. I have friends who have been homeschooling their children (ages 10 and 8) and they speak highly about the process. For me, I would love to do a mix of both homeschool and public school. The only thing drawing me back is the "interaction" with other people, they only learn from the parents and there are no other "students/teachers" for them to interact with such as playing sports or going to the park/playground. Other than that, I totally am on the band wagon for homeschooling.

All of the homeschoolers we know (ourselves included until recently) had kids who were in a variety of activities - church youth group, sports, scouts, FFA; and then most of them either were in a homeschool charter school, part-time homeschool through a private Christian high school, or did co-op activities with other families. Not a single family that I'm aware of just stayed home 24/7 with no interaction with other people. That's a big misconception that many people have, but it's pretty far off-base from my personal experience.

Also, a lot of their learning these last few years was not just me teaching them - we did Math-U-See and VideoText Algebra, which were video-based instruction. Their grammar was video-based. Their writing program was video-based. My son did Latin with a private company that was online once a week. After a time, just about everything they did was on the computer or TV screen, and I just helped them with their work, rather than doing all the teaching.

My kids were the only kids I knew who did not want to do a lot of schooling outside of home - they just liked it better when we did stuff on our own at home (they begged me to stop having them go to classes at their charter school a few years ago, so we went "rogue" for the last few years). Then they did their other activities that they wanted to do in the evenings (my son is in Civil Air Patrol and church youth group, and will start wrestling on a private team as soon as the season starts; my daughter has played competitive soccer for years, and now is running Cross Country and will try out for her high school soccer team and run track in the spring). We are hardly shut-ins!