Homeschooling makes your child a social outcast
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Your children will grow up to be freaks
To all you bitching about anon you wouldn't have any idea who Iam even if I wasn't anon its the internet!
I don't homeschool, however, all the homeschooled kids I know are completely opposite of what you stated. They are compassionate, community involved, smart, engaging social people who will make a difference in the world for the good.
Quoting Anonymous:I would never bash a mother who chooses to homeschool her kids. However, it's not something that I would do with my kids. I want them to be on school, making friends, and enjoying being around other kids.
My kids enjoy making friends and being around other kids. They do this on pretty much a daily basis. You don't need to be in school to do that. Just saying.
"Oppression of spirit is not on
the public school curriculum. Rather, it's a noxious by-product produced
while stewing schooling in a pot w/ unions, administrators,
multi-billion dollar budgets, state education departments, and school
boards, then letting politicians control the heat." Linda Dobson
"When you want to teach
children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are
little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,
providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and
thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's *if* you
want to teach them to think." ~ Bertrand Russell
Interesting.
Quoting Anonymous:I guess I shouldn't have made the fact that they don't have a TV an issue because you are right, it doesn't matter and probably serves them better than if they DID have one. But contrary to what you went and compared to having a "gym membership" it is extremely strange to be living in a neighborhood which is full of kids playing outside in the summer but only seeing this one family when they are out running circles in their cul-de-sac. Call me crazy and everyone else in the area who thinks its odd.
They don't come outside to even interact with other children, or PLAY, they can't seem to hold a conversation with anyone but their parents because they are so sheltered, and THAT is where its strange, no matter how many comparisons you spill out about the "TV generation" and "normal kids" and Lindsay and Snookie, that wasn't even my point, you took what I had to say to a whole other level.
I know what I have seen with these children and others that I have personally gotten to know and there IS a difference with how they interact with the world around them vs. kids who are in the public school system. I know not all homeschooled children are backward or strange, I am a little more educated than to generalize people, in fact, I happen to know a family whose homeschooled kids are very well adjusted. I personally think it depends on the parents and what they instill in their home. And with all due respect, take your comparisons and put them on someone else.
Quoting mamaistheword87:
I appreciate your response. However, with due respect, the fact that the homeschooling family doesn't own a TV and their kids cannot relate to other kids from the reality TV generation, is a GOOD thing.
Neurocognitive research shows that the brain atrophes while watching TV, even "educational" TV.
As for running circles. I'm pretty sure that's what we do around tracks, and that's apparently normal at public school. Hell, people pay for gym memberships to do the same.
Stagnantion and lowering the bar because "that's what everyone else does" is still stagnation. In 10 years, when the "normal" kids who love their TVs become Snooki 2.0, Lindsay Lohan 2.0, anyone from Teen Mom 2.0, these "abnormal" homeschooled kids will be productive members of society with functioning brains.
Quoting Anonymous:I live by a family who home schools their children, and I have to admit, they are a little strange. They never come outside, and when they do they run around in circles in our cul-de-sac to get exercise. They do not own a TV, and they honestly can't relate to any children their age. My kids have tried to talk to them but they are just so awkward. Even my youngest thought they were wierd. I feel bad for them. I know that public school kids can be little pricks at times and they are a lot more worldly in some areas, but these little neighbors of mine are so sheltered they can't even hold a conversation outside of their mom and dad. I feel that if parents homeschool their children they really need to make sure they get mainstream interaction with other kids, their social skills suffer immensely, I've actually lived by 2 different families and this applies to both of them. The awkwardness and social issues of course don't apply to ALL homeschooled kids, but it's definitely based on the interaction that I've had with them.
I am a teacher and homeschooling is not for me, but if parents want to do so, they should have that opportunity without being picked on.
Kids do need time to be social and active with other children, but I think parents know this and can come up with ways to make it happen, like organized sports, volunteering, etc.
are you ok with another woman calling your husband "hun" or "babe"