Articles by Home Educators on Socialisation |
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| Along with the issues of legality, this is probably
the area of home education about which most questions are asked.
How do home educated children socialise? How do home educated
children learn to get along with other children? How can home
educated children learn to be part of a team? This is a series of articles which show that socialisation is not an issue which causes problems. Some are personal accounts of how families deal with this issue; some are more general in nature. They should all serve to show that, unless in the most unusual of cases which would normally be an issue for Social Services - not education authorities, home educated children are well adjusted, social young people...often with a wider circle of friends and acquaintances than their peers in a school. |
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| Louise Parker | Louise is a home educator with a son aged 10 and twin sons aged 7. This article relating to personal experience with her family was contributed in August 2002. |
| Ross Mountney | Ross and her husband have been home educating their two children aged 8 and 11 for 3 years. Article contributed in August 2002. |
| Sue Fairhead | Sue is a home educator who has her own website giving many well thought out, well presented articles on all aspects of home education. Her pages on socialisation are reproduced here with permission. To see more of Sue's articles, please click here |
| Jackie | Jackie's daughter has been home educated for a year now and, although perhaps not socialising as much as some of the children mentioned in other stories here, she is learning to socialise now in a safe environment and at her own pace and making her own choices. Article contributed August 2002 |
| Tracy | Tracy began home educating her children aged 11 and 13 four months ago. Article contributed in August 2002 |
| Christine Waterman | Many people talk about how socialisation may be an issue for the children, but some parents question whether they will be able to cope without meeting people, cope with their own socialisation needs. Christine addresses this question here. |
