Why do people feel the need to weigh in on homeschool's effect on the social development of my children? Maybe I think your child is an insufferable brat, but I keep my mouth shut. I don't blame public school for their faults.
Sure, my oldest child is shy. Kaiya has always been shy, but she's started to overcome it since she left kindergarten. She approaches other children and plays with them now. She's not being forced to socialize with rabid little beasts who seem to have been raised by wolves and then left outside to catch the bus.
Ronin's only four, so not of schooling age yet, but people still blame homeschool for his tendencies. He seems to be acting a lot like a four year old boy at the moment. Ronin learns best when he's not sitting still. Last year, I was attempting to teach Kaiya to tell time, I showed her a clock and asked for the time. He breezed by on his way to the playroom and yelled over his shoulder that it was "tooelf o'cwock". What the crap, man? He was 3 and I hadn't even worked on numbers past 10 with him at that point. He's the type of child who simply cannot sit still and learn.
I went to public school. What's my excuse for being socially awkward?
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