Every time someone asks me the stupidest question about homeschooling, I picture this scene from yesterday.
Just a normal homeschool park day. Tommy is in the background, playing baseball with the four other big boys after catching geckos for a while. All the girls, from two-year-old Janie up to 12 year olds Peyton and London, are playing Red Rover. Half an hour before, Peyton, London, Faith, Hannah, Noa, and Elizabeth were taking turns pushing Janie and Eve on the swings. Because that’s what homeschooled tweens do. It was Tommy’s best friend’s birthday, so there was a pinata before several of the other families left. With 30+ kids rushing for candy, Susie and Janie didn’t get any. Immediately, unprompted by their mothers, half a dozen bigger kids surrounded them, dropping candy into their bags. After five hours together (two and a half at CBS, two and a half at the park), we all headed home to get some more schoolwork done. Yeah, I’m not too worried about my kids’ social life.