Being Homeschooled is Actually Well Socialized. Really?

On 6 PM, this morning, I was scrolling down the timeline in my facebook and abruptly found a post in my homeschooling group. A homeschooling mother from USA posted the screenshoots of rude and hateful comments from public about homeschooling. The people in the sreenschoots debated, even one is scoffing at the holy religion, Islam. This homeschooling mother then asking people`s opinions about those bad comments. There was a grand probability that new homeschoolers would be startled and feeling so annoyed for things like this. But after being homeschooled for two years, it was sorely normal to acquire negative comments about homeschool, despite in a polite way. Even many of their comments are not true, and homeschoolers should be happy for it, keep being proud for being homeschooled.

One of the problem that`s frequently debated by the usual public schooler parents are, that being homeschooled is arduous to socialize. They assumed homeschooled kids are just the shy kids, cannot communicate, and always count on their parents, cannot ever be living without hanging on their closest person. A parent reasoned that once they encountered with a homeschooler, they saw how s/he was awkwardly socialized and really closed. That is the way public schooler parents being doubious to homeschool their kids, or minimal to look positive at homeschooling system.

In fact, homeschoolers around the world, although not as much as formal schoolers, are also abundant and we cannot ever count them one by one, which means, making a presumption about homeschoolers shouldn`t be by looking at only a few homeschoolers. Definitely, every homeschooler had their own temperament. There are the shy ones, the friendly ones, the serious ones, the hilarious ones which made homeschoolers could not be judged only by appraising several homeschoolers. 

Being homeschooled is not affecting how someone socialized. And many homeschooling parents aren`t letting their children 'stucked in the home jail'. Instead, they bring their children into many outdoor activities that make them meeting many new faces and socialized. I even embarked being brave enough to socialize with many people after I homeschooled myself. I`d like to be involved in many activities and workshops where I could meet people with different backgrounds, ages, professions, ideologies, and more. What a fun stuff?

Before I was homeschooled, my conjecture said that I would be more difficult to socialize. But a month later, I used to join a camp in Yogyakarta where many homeschoolers were also there. What made me astounded was, instead of having a boring camp with quiet and unfriendly persons, I met homeschoolers which are super friendly, fun, but polite and maintaining the morality. Since then, I believed that homeschoolers are not awkwardly socialized. It only depends on each kid, and once again I say, so many homeschoolers are well-socialized. 

The last conclusion is, people don`t have to worry if homeschooling would change or keep making their children unsocialized. If the kid is actually an extrovert and friendly person, in all condition, socializing is not a problem. But if the kid is shy, parents can overcome by thriving their confidence and taking them to many places where they`d be socialized

For everyone, goodluck being a member of homeschooling family!

XD Alifia