Ahhh yes, the social aspect of schooling. Many people love to ask about socialization when it comes to homeschooling. Well, I thought I'd give a peek into what we are planning for outside activities to show you exactly how a homeschooler does things. Now remember, I have 5 kids and I attempt to get as many kids as I can convince into a single activity so that I'm not doing 2 million different things at once.
American Heritage Girls (similar to Girl Scouts, but with a biblical and family emphasis)
Awana (2 in T&T, 1 Spark, and 1 in Cubbies)
weekly park trips as long as weather allows
regular grocery store trips
a million checkups for kids with doctors
church Saturday nights (including Motion City)
maybe 4H if we can agree on what they will do
regular library trips
And this year we also are adding hopefully a couple of trips out of state for history-related field trips.
One of the best things is that we are able to provide a social moment pretty much every time we go out in public. It is impossible to go somewhere and not interact with anyone at all, so we are blessed to have such a variety of ages and personalities and so on with public outings for social moments, instead of being locked up in a classroom all day during the week and only interacting with your age-mates and teachers during designated times. This is something I really am looking forward to, I know that I will be incredibly busy with the things that we have planned for the school year as far as running around for the various activities and all that may entail. However, it will be worth it to provide the kids with such a valuable real-world application of the social lessons they are getting with all of this.
Take that, socialization myth.
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