re: Talk to me about homeschooling

We are homeschooling our 2 youngest children. We choose to home school them, they are perfectly normal kids, no ADHD or social issues or anything like that. They have older siblings that are currently in private catholic schools. The quality of the education they are receiving at home meets or exceeds the upper-end catholic schools that their older siblings are attending.

We have used the Seton curriculum and the Kolbe Academy curriculum. We prefer Kolbe and have selected that one moving forward. It is more challenging and very close to the same curriculum taught in the Catholic schools.

The argument that the lack of socialization hurts them later in life is for the most part BS. There are many ways to provide the socialization: local sports, local home school groups, frequent field trips with other home school children, dance, music, etc.

I am sure there are exceptions, and I have met a few that were home schooled and are struggling with some aspects of work, friendship, and life. But that is the exception, not the rule. But at the same time, I also know many that went to public or private school that are facing the same struggles.