How to Help Christian Home Schooled Kids Socialize

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When your children study at home, they lose a chance to socialize with their peers through the daily interaction traditional classrooms offer. Helping Christian home-schooled kids socialize can be a challenge, but with various community activities going on, the children should be able to fit in without much trouble.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Step1

Contact your local home-school organization. It can put you in contact with other parents who home-school their children through a Christian program. Once you can get in touch with these people, set up a playgroup so the children can meet one another.

Step2

Enroll your children in community sports or other activities. Find an outlet for your children in which they can socialize and exert some energy after being home for most of the day.

Step3

Invite younger family members over once a week. While helping a Christian home-school child socialize with peers is very important, it's wonderful to have the children engage in quality family time with their cousins as well.

Step4

Ask your child if he wants to volunteer at a local center. Many families bring their children to homeless shelters, elderly housing, or hospitals where they can learn to help others. This is an wonderful opportunity for socializing.

Step5

Encourage your child to meet new neighborhood friends. Coordinate playgroups with other mothers one the block once or twice a week.

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wigfallstewart said

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on 4/24/2008 My parents homeschooled me and my sisters, 25 to 30 years ago, as a christian parent on the Mission field in Central America. Talking about isolated, we would be considered that, but problems with Socialization? NOT
Dont Christians go to church? Dont their kids attend Sunday School, Youth group, have friends from church and in their community? sure they do and so what is the issue on socialization? I think it is the government and secular society trying to guilt christian parents into thinking that they must mix with secular kids and learn issues that are not in the Christian world view.
I was socialized very well, as were my sisters, all other homeschooled kids i know.
Look at all the violence in government run schools, then come back and say we have a problem with socialization in homeschooling.

It is a secular agenda to have us even talking about such things.

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