{"id":310,"date":"2007-05-11T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippiemommy.com\/2007\/05\/11\/socialization\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T00:37:14","slug":"socialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiemommy.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Socialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=hippiemommy-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1889209007&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The older that my kids get, the less that I am worried about &#8220;socialization&#8221;.  I went to a mix of public and private schools.  My dh was homeschooled up until 7th grade and then went to private school.  I never even considered homeschooling before my children were born, because I thought that the way that I was raised was the best way.  Meeting my husband definitely changed my mind on that one  \ud83d\ude42  Today I was reading some more Charlotte Mason while at the park with my kids, and I really loved this section on children with their peers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Society of his Equals too stimulating for a child.<\/strong>\u201cLet us follow the little person to the Kindergarten, where he has the stimulus of classmates of his own age. It certainly is stimulating. For ourselves, no society is so much so as that of a number of persons of our own age and standing; this is the great joy of college life; a wholesome joy for all young people for a limited time. But persons of twenty have, or should have, some command over their inhibitory centres. They should not permit the dissipation of nerve power caused by too much social stimulus; <em><strong>yet even persons of twenty are not always equal to the task of self-management in exciting circumstances. What then, is to be expected of persons of two, three, four, five?<\/strong><\/em> That the little person looks rather stolid than otherwise is no guarantee against excitement within. The clash and sparkle of our equals now and then stirs up to health; but for everyday life, the mixed society of elders, juniors and equals, which we get in a family, gives at the same time the most repose and the most room for individual development. We have all wondered at the good sense, reasonableness, fun and resourcefulness shown by a child in his own home as compared with the same child in school life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love this.\u00a0 It is so true.\u00a0 Why is it that our country has become so fixated on the thought that healthy development can only come by being surrounded by people only your own age?\u00a0 John Taylor Gatto addresses this in his book, Dumbing Us Down, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippiemommy.com\/2006\/06\/05\/we-need-less-school-not-more-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote about it once before.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Discovering <em>meaining for yourself<\/em> as well as discovering <em>satisfying purpose for yourself<\/em>, is a big part of what education is.  How this can be done by locking children away from the world is beyond me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday I went to the library and saw the vast number of books in the collection that were devoted to getting kids excited about going to Kindergarten.\u00a0 It was really really sad.\u00a0 Kids aren&#8217;t made to be taken away and taught by their peers just because they turned 5.\u00a0 Now that my son is 5, I am feeling more sure about this than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The older that my kids get, the less that I am worried about &#8220;socialization&#8221;. I went to a mix of public and private schools. My dh was homeschooled up until 7th grade and then went to private school. 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