From my friend’s garden to our dinner table last night. A little of this. A little of that. Plus enough fresh basil to make some pesto this weekend.
We’ve made some generous friends this year.
Why is it that we worry so much about our kids making friends as homeschoolers, when time after time it’s proven that as homeschoolers, we simply Make Friends Easily? All it took was maybe a half a dozen emails, membership into a couple of yahoo groups, and the next thing you know, we’ve got a social calendar chock full of fun and interesting events with nice, kind, generous new friends. Friends who say things like: just come over anytime and we’ll do crafts if it rains, and swim if it doesn’t. Or, I’ve got your iced coffee all ready here just as soon as you walk through the door. Or, I know you live sort of far from the library, so why don’t you just come into the booksale today. I know the booksale doesn’t start till tomorrow, but you and the girls just come on in anyway.
Oh, if you’re sitting there worrying that your kids will never make friends if you don’t put them in school…
Please. stop. worrying.
Look how easy it is.
What socialized younin’s you have. Don’t you love it? Just yesterday, on a whim, we headed up to the big local park and what do you know…about 20 homeschooled kids running around with light sabers. (sp) My son didn’t know any of them and yet he walked up, they handed over an extra weapon and away he went. Just wonderful.
This is reassuring to me. My toddler has lots of great social opportunities now. But lately I’ve wondered what will happen in a couple of years when nearly all of her peers suddenly vanish, body-snatched by Kindergarten. Glad to hear that it’s not quite as Twilight Zone as it sounds.
I worried when we took Matt out of school right after first grade, but even my worries over the grinning specter of socialization did not deter me from getting him the hell out of school.
I know now, 14 years later, that it’s a non-issue.
“body-snatched by kindergarten”…oooooh…that’s good.