Home scholing?

Question

I always wander to myself how people who learn by home schooling make friends, how???

and is it boring?

thx!!

Answer 1

It happens naturally when you are a sociable person. Think about it: Adults in the real world make friends all the time. How do they do it?

   Homeschoolers are not isolated. If anything, they are in the community more often than other kids.

Answer 2

How do they make friends?  Oh my gosh.  Are you serious?

How did you make friends when you were little?    Did you ever walk out your front door?  Did you play with the kids in the neighbourhood?    Did you ever go to dance class, swimming, church, scouts, brownies, etc??  

My kids have friends all over the neighbourhood.  All of their friends have friends so they make more friends and so on and so on and so on.

My kids take classes and lessons and belong to clubs and youth groups.   They are in band, film school, drama classes, have taken golf lessons, fencing, ski lessons, etc.    In all of those classes are other kids.   They talk to them.  They become friends.   BINGO - more friends.

I'm sorry if I sound sarcastic but tonight I'm just tired of people thinking homeschooled kids sit in a house 24/7 and never go out the front door.    I do not lock my children in a basement.   My kids go outside, my kids have sleepovers, my kids have fun, my kids are normal, average kids.

Answer 3

You know that people have really only gone to school for the past 150 years. Did they not have friends before then? There is a LOT you could be doing when you're not in school, lots of things with other people (especially homeschoolers). And by not having to spend your evenings and weekends doing school work, you can join a variety of activities and lessons.

Is it boring--most would say no. Some say yes, but that's because of how the homeschooling is gone about. Homeschooling is what you make of it and if you do nothing to make it interesting, it will be boring.

Answer 4

Homeschoolers make friends the same way as anyone else being friendly.  Many have friends from 4-H, scouts, sports, neighborhood, etc.

Homeschooling is anything but boring!  You can do practically anything you want.

Answer 5

Of course home schooled children make friends, it just takes a little more effort than being crammed into classrooms like sheep each day!!  No education system that is driven entirely by the childs needs could ever be boring.

Answer 6

We make friends by doing things in the community. Homeschool group

Co-op

Field trips

Drama classes

Art studio

Music lessons

Band

Chorus

Orchestra

Team sports

Individual sports

-Swimming

-Fencing

-Gymnastics

-Bowling

-Martial Arts

-Track

Horseback riding

Kiyaking

Boy Scouts

Girl Scouts

Toastmasters International

Volunteering

Library activities

Museum classes

Science Center programs

Theater

Going to the mall

the movies

the park

the beach

the pool

Kids in the neighborhood

Arcades

Gocart tracks

puppy parks

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Math team

Academic teams

Science fair

meeting friends through friends

going to parties

going to local events

traveling

Student Ambassadors

YMCA

WMCA

Boys&Girls Club

Youth Center

Community Center

anything really. There are so many ways to meet people without going to a public school where you have people forced upon you because you're all herded into pens based on your birth year. And since homeschoolers don't have the bulk of their day taken up by going to school and sitting at a desk for seven hours, traveling to and from school, studying and doing homework (they are two different things), and those pesky human needs... sleeping and eating, they have time to get involved in MUCH more and get out of their houses MUCH more than the typical PSer who may only have time for one or two outside activities.

Answer 7

Some might consider home schooling as fun, but my question is, Does it really help you?  I'll say to that yes and no.  Yes due to fast learning, free time, your at home, etc... and no because the degrees for a career.  Some make friends on the internet, others with their neighbors.

Answer 8

I'm home schooled have about 6 Friends and no its not boring at all by going to church getting pen pals and going to events and making Friends with your parents Friends child's!!!!!

Answer 9

The presumption that people must attend an organized school to make friends is---a presumption.

Kids have made friends among the other kids on their street since time imemorial.

Also, many of the responsible home-schoolers arrange for social activities with other children of their students' age.

So relax, man, it's taken care of.

Answer 10

Hi there! my name is Depree and I plan on homeschooling my little ones Israel and Emmanuel. Making friends..... is sooo much fun. Many homeschoolers attend co-ops with their children and they meet that way, or going to the park,(you'd be suprised how many friends you can make at the park or other local places)! Just thought I'd chime in!

Answer 11

Are there no playgrounds, malls, movie theaters, bolwing alleys, little leagues.

I'd like to know EXACTLY how many highschool friends EVERYONE STILL HAS!!!!

SPEAK UP, because I have NONE.

ALL my close friends came from apartment buildings, neighboroods, other schools, other friends, my jobs-- the only person from school I've seen in the last 10 years was my high school sweetie and that's it!

How many 50 year olds still see their high school sweetie!!!!

I'll bet none of your wives let you!

Let's get things straight, the moment you get married your single friends become history.

That's almost a requirement.

You don't let your wife see her old boyfriends and she won't let you see your girl friends from high school, that's for sure!

Once we left high school we scattered in different directions more than half of my male friends move to other states.

The rest became snobs!

Answer 12

There are many ways to make friends... simply by being involved in the community.  However, I feel that you have an opportunity to MEET more people in school...  its just a matter of deciding if you like them or not.

Answer 13

A big advantage of home education is that you can make friends of all ages, rather than being limited to those in your year-group or grade.  

My sons were educated at home for ten years, and had friends from age six to sixty.  They had no problems getting along with people who shared their interests, or culture, no matter how old or young they were.  This is a much better reflection of society in general, and enables them to get along much better in the 'real world' as adults than many who spent 12 or 13 years at school with people of their own age.  

As for where they make friends - in the neighbourhood, at sports groups, at youth groups, at Scouting organisations, at choirs, at band, at church... with home education there is far more time for socialising than there is for the unforunate folk who have to spend 7 hours a day in school and then another two or three hours doing homework.

Answer 14

How did you make your friends?

Did they all come from the same place?

Are they ALL school friends?

You wonder how they make friends. It's pretty simple they go up to a kid they don't know and ask them their name and invite them to play or hang out what ever the age group dictates. Just like you did when you made all your friends.

Why is that so hard for people to grasp? Home schooled kids are just like public schooled kids. They aren't cloistered away in their home 24/7. They are out in the world just like everyone else. We aren't being over protective of our kids. We just want a better education for them than we can get from the public system. We choose to invest into their education to give them that.

Earl: I have one high school friend I see on a regular basis (we live near each other) and one or two I e-mail but out of the 12 or so I had. That's what 10 years has done to our friendships.

Answer 15

We make friends in classes, in the neighborhood, at the store, renting video games. There is no way that everyone in the world ONLY makes friends by going to school. By that argument, anyone who has graduated from school would never make another friend! How boring would THAT be?! What happens when you pick up a new hobby?  What if you want to learn a new language or musical interest? Learning doesn't stop when you graduate, and neither does making friends.