{"id":149,"date":"2015-07-24T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2016-06-01T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:46:09","slug":"the-socially-awkward-homeschooler-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/the-socially-awkward-homeschooler-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Socially Awkward Homeschooler – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reality<\/h1>\n

While I may not \u201csee\u201d my friends every day, I still get plenty of socialization. I participate in church events, have sleepovers, go to homeschool dances, and party at our group\u2019s monthly teen events. That still doesn\u2019t count any extracurricular activities like a summer camp, piano parties, book club meetings, or any activities I do with my family and other close friends.<\/p>\n

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Even homeschoolers have pizza parties!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We homeschoolers have all had the questions about \u201csocialization\u201d and sometimes the look of disgust when we mention we are homeschooled. I feel like school kids point to a naturally shy homeschooler and say, \u201cProof! Right there! Homeschoolers don\u2019t know how to talk to others or behave in public!\u201d Yet, they ignore the fact that their school is still teaming with shy and quiet kids excusing it as their \u201cpersonality\u201d. Don\u2019t homeschoolers have personalities too???<\/p>\n

I encourage other homeschool families to work to dispel the myth that we don’t know how to have fun and socialize with others. In fact, after learning I am homeschooled, many people comment on how easily I can get along with others of all ages, including adults.<\/p>\n

What do you do to have fun and socialize? Whether or not it is a quiet activity such as eating ice cream with your neighbor in your favorite tree or bowling with your\u00a0friends at\u00a0your local entertainment center, I\u2019d love to hear it. Just because the world labels us as \u201csocially awkward\u201d doesn\u2019t mean we are. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reality While I may not \u201csee\u201d my friends every day, I still get plenty of socialization. I participate in church events, have sleepovers, go to homeschool dances, and party at […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Socially Awkward Homeschooler - Part 2 - The Reality","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[112,7],"tags":[55],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7urq8-2p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myschoolyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}