My own family mocked me initially. THEIR kids were popular.
Until the oldest daughter became an unwed mother at 17. We’ll try and avoid that ‘popular’. Thankssomuch.
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LOl, yes, I do believe so.
I will admit — our daughter does EXTREMELY well ...she’s an analyst at a major, major, major US financial firm in NYC. She works in Manhattan. She went to a very decent college and did so well. She NEVER EVER suffered any problems with socialization .....in fact, she has a long term wonderful boyfriend and a nice group of solid close friendships from college — so that shoots THAT theory down.
And we were NOT Little House in the Prairie evangelical types ...we just wanted our kids to have a good, solid education where their abilities would be challenged .... of course, Faith was important to us, and we imparted our values as well .....but we really weren’t homeschooling insulated nut cases, like everyone paints you out to be.
It all started when I realize they were not going to teach the vowels ...AEIOU or phonics based reading. I knew nothing of homeschooling ...I just wanted the kid to be able to read!!
Perhaps someone should compile a book with profiles of homeschooled kids ....A “where they are now” book, to feature how successful many of them have turned out.
I’ll never forget a public school teacher neighbor of mine who was SO arrogant and dismissive of us. Her kids were maniacs, of course.
Another neighbor would repeatedly ask me ..”you’re not going to do that again next year, are you?