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Message: <blockquote data-quote="squat45" data-source="post: 2025563" data-attributes="member: 20921">It all dependsA couple of things... a nerd/geek constantly being ostrasized by their peers is NOT a fun or admirable situation... I only got by because I was an athletic, football (american)-playing, 6' 225lbs linebacker nerd/geek.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Also, with as much movement as the poster is indicating, the consistancy of the homeschooling atmosphere will be MUCH better than always chaging school systems, teacher, friends, etc.  Socail interaction can be done a lot of ways, and outside of a school system, it can be made to be much more desirable.  Sign the kid up for dance classes, art classes, music, whatever at the community center.  Go to a church (or temple, or whatever) and get the little one involved with going to a "sunday school".  Those are all wonderful opportunities for kids' interaction and the little one will have a consistant education that won't bounce all over from one place to another... listen to stories of military kids and the nightmares that they go through if the parents get transferred all over the place.  Every time you transfer schools, you either are way ahead or way behind... neither is desirableOh, and my wife and I are starting to homeschool out 4 year old (and our 2 year old when she gets a little older).  We actually live in a great neighborhood and have a school in the backyard, but my wife feels very strongly that she wants to teach the girls and not give the best 7 hours of the day to somebody else.  Plus, we've seen some neighborhood kids go to school as wonderful little beings and come home brats, not all of them, but definately some.  Maybe just our neighborhood... My wife is trained as a teacher (only did it for about a year) and she can teach most of the subjects, but she'll pull me in for history, chemistry and the really advanced math (if it goes so far).As for the socially inept homeschooler stereotype, I have yet to meet one (and I've met quite a few through college and our church).  Most of the really mal-adjusted socially inept people I met were socially inept people going through High School and the like.  Of course, all the home schoolers I know have been brought up in very solid homes that really put the premium on learning and the like... and they were all in co-ops.anyways, sorry for the long post, I say "Go for it and good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!"   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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