What are you on about? I said it was a science “topic”. Which it is. It’s not a subject. And I don’t stress it. She just asked me who the first people were one day and I got her some books from the library. We cover the provincial curriculum. I don’t know where you live, but up here distributed learning teachers must…

We have a coffee shop here that does that. They have regular meet ups so people can find friends to play with and they have team bracelets and junk. And cupcakes that look like pokeballs (is that what those are?). I love the sense of community they've developed with this game.

This Pokemon thing is funny. Took my dogs out today and there were all these teenagers I've never seen before. I live in a small neighbourhood. I thought I knew where all the kids were living. The little ones are always out. But the teenagers were apparently in hiding.

Somebody commented on the Paul Ryan intern story something like “most interns are white so what do you expect”.

My doggy is never unsupervised either. Partly because she's 5lbs and partly because she's a goddam idiot.

*hides tiny doggy*

AGREED. Long live the romper/jumpsuit.

Cannot get past the fact that these would look so incredibly bad on me, omg so bad. I almost want to try them on just for the comedy of it.

I never watched this show. This is...an interesting dynamic.

Maybe it’s geographical. I'm in British Columbia. Or maybe you just have poor luck.

I do think there will be at least a mix of public and homeschooling one day. We are enjoying the non-child related aspects of it right now (travelling!!!), and that will be tough to give up. :P But I think in high school my kids will want to at least participate in band or maybe a school sports team. The district here…

It is. That’s why I’m glad I don’t have to do it. The parents I know that do tend to have jobs with hours that don’t match and trade off on responsibilities. Keep in mind too that a homeschool day is much shorter than public school.

Not in my experience. My homeschooling friends are almost all dealing with kids with anxiety, autism, or some sort of developmental issue. And all of us are big on socialization. And we don’t rule out our kids going back to public school one day, at least part time. Mine will do electives at the very least.

I replied to another commentor about this, but for me socialization is actually WHY I homeschool. My daughter has a very severe form of selective mutism. When she was at public school she was bullied and totally silent. She had no friends. She spent all day long totally mute either in a corner or by herself on the…

That person fully admits they were homeschooled in a “protect from the evil” type way. Meeting up with others once a week? My kids have activities every single day with other kids. Socializing is a priority for me because my daughter was already born with social anxiety. We just found that a) a six hour day was so…

I’m going to guess that I have more experience than you in the field of homeschooling families. In my experience it’s a 60/40 split with the normals slightly leading the weirdos. I avoid the weirdos whenever I can. Sometimes they show up in strange places. Like we were at this science lecture about magnets that was…

Not sure what your point is. My point is that my kids are quite obviously functioning well with their peers and making friends. They don’t NEED to be at school to do that. Your idea of clingy kids meeting up once in a while with other clingy kids is not reality. Yes, I’ve encountered these people who have obviously…

My kid isn’t “special” but she does have a medical issue that makes it hard for her to operate in a classroom (at least for now). Most of my homeschooling friends have autistic kids who can’t get classroom support. And yes, we are all vaccinated. Never did I ever think I would be homeschooling.

THANK YOU.

I’ve done a year of homeschool with my daughter. She completed two grades. She went from barely reading to a very advanced level (turned 7 last month and she’s read five Harry Potter books). She writes at an advanced level. She knows her times tables and has full understand of math concepts a year ahead of where she’d…