Comments on: Those social misfits! http://muddyboots.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/those-social-misfits/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: The (Almost) Amazing Mommarino http://muddyboots.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/those-social-misfits/#comment-897 The (Almost) Amazing Mommarino Wed, 07 May 2008 18:52:08 +0000 http://muddyboots.wordpress.com/?p=306#comment-897 I am always so blessed to go to large homeschool gatherings and see teenagers helping and playing with their younger siblings. Homeschoolers rock! I am always so blessed to go to large homeschool gatherings and see teenagers helping and playing with their younger siblings. Homeschoolers rock!

]]> By: elephantschild http://muddyboots.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/those-social-misfits/#comment-896 elephantschild Wed, 07 May 2008 13:33:52 +0000 http://muddyboots.wordpress.com/?p=306#comment-896 It's nearly a foregone conclusion, it's happened so many times: at a homeschoolers' gathering, I can send my scrappy five year old out into the crowd of kids to run, and expect no problems. Ditto for large families - you'd think that an only child would have trouble playing with a sibling group of 4-6 kids - nope. She fits right in. With a group of conventionally schooled kids, though, and I know that I've got to watch my daughter much more carefully, since for some reason, she acts much worse around them - more ugly competition, more bickering, more selfishness. It’s nearly a foregone conclusion, it’s happened so many times: at a homeschoolers’ gathering, I can send my scrappy five year old out into the crowd of kids to run, and expect no problems.

Ditto for large families - you’d think that an only child would have trouble playing with a sibling group of 4-6 kids - nope. She fits right in.

With a group of conventionally schooled kids, though, and I know that I’ve got to watch my daughter much more carefully, since for some reason, she acts much worse around them - more ugly competition, more bickering, more selfishness.

]]> By: Dana http://muddyboots.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/those-social-misfits/#comment-895 Dana Wed, 07 May 2008 06:56:36 +0000 http://muddyboots.wordpress.com/?p=306#comment-895 How dare they! Don't they know boys have cooties and no one is supposed to like their own brother? It is interesting when you look at homeschooled kids interacting. My five year old son is afraid of the slide at the Y, but he conquers it every time the homeschool group goes swimming...by inching down it, taking several minutes to go down and jump in the water. No one chides him or gets impatient. They all line up on the slide, encouraging him and cheering for him when he gets to the bottom. How dare they! Don’t they know boys have cooties and no one is supposed to like their own brother?

It is interesting when you look at homeschooled kids interacting. My five year old son is afraid of the slide at the Y, but he conquers it every time the homeschool group goes swimming…by inching down it, taking several minutes to go down and jump in the water. No one chides him or gets impatient. They all line up on the slide, encouraging him and cheering for him when he gets to the bottom.

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