Yesterday, was End of the Year Fun Day at Lakeside Park for a group of homeschoolers I know. The reason I like this group is b/c we come from different cover schools (in AL you have to be under a cover school), backgrounds, religious affiliations, etc. Shareen and I had SO much fun. I barely saw Reen all day b/c she was off making friends and having fun. (Yes, homeschoolers/unschoolers do know how to make friends despite their lack of social skills ) I got to judge a baking contest - all desserts made by the kids (apparently, some homeschoolers can cook too!). I got to get in a little socialization time with friends and meet new friends. I played with sidewalk chalk, so did Shareen. I got to laugh at how funny kids are. How bright and playful and funny and great they are when they are just free. Overall, it was a fantastic day. Days like this just help me reaffirm why I homeschool. This is something I need right now. We've homeschooled for 2 1/2 years and everything has been fine... no family members totally against it, most don't care, friends ok (not necessarily supportive, but not saying anything bad either). But for some reason, since we've made the change over to unschooling in the last month, people have really been getting on my nerves with the questions. What's weird is most people don't even know we're unschooling now. It's not about the unschooling, they've just been general irkies like "When are you going to put her back in school?" or "Doesn't she need to be around kids her own age?". Just bothersome things like that. Anyway, why now after 2 1/2 years? I don't know. I don't ask people "When are you going to take your kids out of school? Don't they need to learn to associate with people that aren't their age?". Whatever.

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Posted by Anonymous

A social adept homeschooler? What? How could this be? I'm sure you're just confused. Homeschooled kids are really boring, weird, socially retarded geeks. Right?
HA! (wink wink) We know that the opposite is really true though don't we friend?
But ... sshhhhh... we won't tell anybody.

Crissy

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Posted by Anonymous

Hey Leslie, Love reading your thoughts. Homeschooling sounds attractive, especially when I've got so many good godly models around me like you, Crissy, Laura, etc. Thanks for sharing. I'll be checking in on both blogs quite regularly. -Jawan

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