Re: Homeschooling

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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