Posted on 07/11/2013 8:27:58 AM PDT by Sopater
Right! Definitely. Just like all other kids. Only homeschooled kids are a better, different kind of not normal. (big grin)
Great job!
When my kids were babies, one of my cousins asked where we’d be sending them to school. I replied ‘we’ll homeschool’. Her retort was along the lines of ‘well, we thought about that but decided we’d rather OUR children be POPULAR’.
Well now. The ‘popular’ oldest girl is due any day now. She’s not 18 yet and no one is sure who the baby’s father is. This is an intact home and the kids are front and center at church every single sunday. Mom is a housewife who could have easily homeschooled. But as it turns out, these days the ‘popular’ kids are the one most ‘Kardashian’ like. And if you’re ‘proud’ that your kid runs with the popular crowd you’d better start spying. Because I can guarantee they’re up to no good. It’s Caligula’s barge out there.
We’ll pass on that sort of popular. Thanks anyways.
Many students from the public schools have long-term psychiatric problems due to their experiences there.
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I hope so, considering what *normal* is.
Both of ours are sooooo weird.
It’s so great!
The younger one’s moving up in sports ... Popular... And Has a sweet merciful heart, loves animals, and is working at VBS this week.
The other is an AF cadet aerospace engineering Eagle Scout on a full scholarship at one of the best universities in the country.
Weird.
Both of ours are sooooo weird.
It’s so great!
The younger one’s moving up in sports ... Popular... And Has a sweet merciful heart, loves animals, and is working at VBS this week.
The other is an AF cadet aerospace engineering Eagle Scout on a full scholarship at one of the best universities in the country.
Weird.
Reading the posts, I notice a common thread: many of the homeschoolers here are quite active in their church or synagogue. This, IMHO, creates the most normalizing effect among homeschoolers — morality, fear of God, respect for authority, emulation of adult, not adolescent, behavior. Probably good role models around them — especially for the boys.
I wager that much of the socialization comes from church/synagogue activities, a far more wholesome alternative to the decadence of the public schools.
Yeah I think I'm one of them.
Socialization is important, I think it would go better outside a prison, I mean "school" setting. Nowadays with the heightened security it's becoming more and more like prison everyday. More security guards, dumber teachers, fun fun fun, I'm glad I'm not a kid right now, it was bad enough back in the day.
The government school “social” set these folks are so enamored of is not safe for children; spiritually, morally, intellectually, or physically. This is an obvious fact.
It helps to understand where these people are coming from if every time they say “the kids won’t be properly socialized” you do a quick translation in your head: what they really mean is “we’re afraid that there’s no way we will be able to turn them into good little socialists if you keep them at home.”
The understatement of the year.
I’m still plagued by nightmares of school (in addition to my usual other ones...). :-(
Once in while I still have a bad dream were I’m back in “class” (used to have them commonly). And it’s been over 10 years, so I understand.
I still have odd ones 34 years after I started Kindergarten... ugh.
I am still dealing with my share of emotional issues from my school years. There are other factors, and I wouldn’t say that I have long term psychiatric issues, but there certainly was damage done that over 40 years later, I’ still working through.
Matter of fact, 20 years ago when we decided to homeschool, my public school experience was one of the major factors in our decision. I would not and could not put my kids through what I went through.
Mine are weird, too.
My son, who graduated college and got married at 23, has full time job in the field he wants and just took a job in the state he wants. He went out there and pursued it until he got it. All within the last two months.
He but the cord himself. None of this pushing him out the door and nagging him to be on his own.
My daughters, one on each side of him, are equally independent although one is still in college and the other still having a hard time getting a job.
Meh. Who needs *normal*?
Mine are successful.
Some of us are just not suited for the sausage factory I guess, though I don’t see how anyone would be.
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