From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (Karen@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 16:23:23 MDT
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From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
> at age 16. That option worked great for the mind, but horrible for our
> social development. Sixteen-year old males on campus were freaks, nerds
and
> did not fit in well. I would warn a similar problem with making sure your
> home-schooled children have a lot of external interaction with other
> children and adults.
^^^^^yeah. 16 year old boys/young men don't fit in well with anything but
more of the same. ;)
The social interaction is something I am concerned about. I know that
my brother and i missed a lot on social interaction because of the way our
mother felt we should be isolated. And I made the mistake of raising my
puppy without proper socialization, and have seen him struggle with proper
dogiquette when encountering others. I don't want to make that mistake with
children.
What I am thinking is education at home, and enroll them early in
social groups for exercise such as soccer, ballet, baseball, tai kwan do, or
whatever they seem to like.
>
> (Hmmmmm.... The Extropian Academy for Transhuman Youths....)
>
^^^^Exactly what I was thinking, Harvey! ;)
--karen
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