How do you have a social life while homeschooling?

Answer 1

A person has a social life every time you have contact with another person. Each time that a person associates with someone else they are learning to be social. Interaction with your family in a pleasant manner teaches social skills. When you greet a neighbor with a smile you are being social.
There are more activities and occasions for a home-school student to have a social life than there are for group-school kids.
An home-school student is not locked in an empty room -- contrary to silly public perception. My children have more hours in their day to interact with others in a better environment. They don't ride for 1 -2 hours on a school bus.... so I guess they are missing that "fun" event. Instead of this they can use their hours to work with people, play with people, make things for people, visit people.... the list is very LONG.
Neighbors, churches, gyms, stores, parks, restaurants, etc.... ANYWHERE you can have a social life an home-school student can too! Maybe better!!!! They don't stand around on street corners in a crowd with nothing better to do than talk. They work! They get things done. They know how to carry on intelligent conversations with anybody everywhere they go. And they work.... oh, did I already say that? ;-)

Answer 2

I hate the way some people assume that no homeschoolers can have a social life, if you want a social life, get out and do stuff, go to the mall with your friends, and homeschoolers do have friends, you just meet them in extracurricular activities, 4-H, youth group, summer job, volunteering, etc... and we have a homeschooling support group in our city, there are probably 60 families in it, and we get together at least once a week,

Answer 3

Think this way:

How do ADULTS get a social life, though they aren't in school anymore???
How do housewives have a social life?

People are social naturally and will start conversations and friendships everywhere they go. Church, grocery stores, the park, the gym, the beach, cooking class, rallies, etc.....

Because you are young, and going to homeschool, does not mean that suddenly you become anti-social...on the contrary, most become more outgoing and find new and different types of people to hang out with, not just kids of the same age.

Homeschoolers have plenty of free time to go places and do things with other families, groups, homeschoolers, and friends.

Answer 4

Do you mean for teenagers? The homeschooled teenagers I know do different things: competitive sports training programs, field trips, clubs, classes, MSN'ing, go out to movies (which they can do during the day!), just set up get-togethers, things like that. There are weekly automatic get-togethers by one homeschool support group and the teens usually all go hang out together. Some families are good friends with each other and do things together with the teens more than once a week.

Answer 5

Joining a youth group was going to be my first suggestion as well. If you go to a church or whatever that can be a great place to make friends, and then you can meet their friends, so you meet a lot of people.
you can also look into the parks and rec organization around where you live and sign up for sports teams. or, if you're old enough, get a job.
You could also volunteer to work somewhere if you are too young to get a job. My 14 year old sister volunteers at a local salon and just does odd jobs around there. She's made some great friends that way.

Answer 6

Oh come on people. We home schooled kids have a social life. In fact, we have more than the kids in public school. I hang out with my friends all the time. We get together and do our schoolwork, then do all the normal teenage stuff. It's actually harder to have a social life when you have a certain schedule of classes. I know from experience.

Answer 7

Let's see...you could volunteer, play a sport, join a band, take a class, meet for coffee, visit your neighbors, call a friend, write a letter, go to church, lead 4-H, do debate, hang with friends, host a party, actually TALK to your family (horrors!), visit the old folks home, babysit, turn off the TV/Ipod/computer, pursue someone who needs friend... Really, I don't see why the location of your study time would stunt this. Unless your parents forbid contact with all others? We need to return to the day when "society" included more than people who are within 12 months of our age. Diversity, folks: your elderly neighbor, your babysister, the middle aged postal guy...these are all humans in your world that you can give something to and receive something from. Especially the postal guy. ;-)

Answer 8

When I was home-schooled I was active in 4-H groups, piano lessons, youth group and I was on the speech team at my local high school for a year. Depending on what state you live in you might be able to join any public school activity for free. Find something you're interested in and then just find a group/club etc that shares those interests. That's part of the beauty of home schooling. You have the time to explore your interests instead of being pressured into activities that are not fun for you. Good luck!

Answer 9

maximum homeschoolers don't have psychological disabilities. you will desire to have met purely a pair of homeschoolers on your life and those little ones did, or, you have have been given some very detrimental preconceived notions approximately homeschooling..... connect the co-op!!!!!! once you connect the church team, you will discover the youngsters are purely as "regular" as a results of fact the youngsters on your previous college....yet in all probability a splash nicer and lots smarter!! Be somewhat much less prejudiced and a splash extra open-minded and you will bypass some distance in life! BTW: before all people tries to instruct off their intelligence and remark which you on no account stated something "racist"; being "prejudiced" is letting your preconceived notions and lack of information approximately "something" type your comments before you unquestionably comprehend the certainty approximately that "something". maximum situations it relatively is utilized with regard to ethnicity, notwithstanding it may word to very almost something, which comprise homeschooling.

Answer 10

Some states are taking a progressive view of home-schooling, and actually providing state funding through district programs like IDEA (link below). If you have access to similar programs, you can tap into home-schooling co-ops, workshops and many of the same social events that you might find in a school. The second link below may provide names of similar programs in your area.