How many children do you homeschool? - Page 2

[MommyKelly]

I have 4 I am schooling right now. 2 I have graduated, and 3 that are too young still.

[Reebekah]

my 3 kids are young right now, but when the time comes i'll be homeschooling 3...or more than 3, if we end up having more kids, although i dont think i'll ever have more than 4 kids. anyway, i wouldnt worry...........even though i have 3 and i'll be happy to homeschool all of them, i often think about how much easier it would be if i only had 1 or 2, becuase they would get so much more individual attention and i wouldnt be spread so thin.

[ALittleBitCrunchy]

Two kids and both homeschooling right now - she's in kindergarten and he's in second grade. It works out well with 2, especially because they are close enough in age that I can do combined lessons for so many things.

[hipumpkins]

2. DDis 7 and Ds is 4. with Dd I didn't consider 4 school age but Ds wants to learn to read so we are doing that.
As far as socializing we belong to many Yahoo groups in our area and my kids take classes outside of the home IE: UU Re program, ice skating, music and swimming (Only DD takes swimming)
they have lots of time with other kids and I always make sure to get info from kids' parent and set up play dates (are they still called playdates when the kids aren't toddlers?)
for us socialization is not one bit a problem, finding time to do school work between playing with friends is.

[larksongs]

Originally Posted by blessed2bmommy

Can't figure out how to do a poll! Would love to know how many children you all have. It's way early for me to really be thinking/planning, but DH says this is our last baby! I always imagined myself homeschooling a handful of kids, not 2 I worry about socialization with just 2 kids....would love to hear positive encouraging things about the benefits of homeschooling a small # of kids.

I have an only child and couldn't imagine anything else. I think that having a lot has it's benefits and so does having just the one. I definitely don't plan on having anymore. For us finding social situations was harder when he was younger so I had him join the community sports teams etc to kind of get to know the neighborhood kids and introduce himself . He has basically just gotten involved in a lot of community activities. Almost all of his friends go to the local public school. He also joined the community summer recreation and does the kid's activities at our local library. It gets easier and easier as he gets older. For us just kind of throwing him into the mix worked. I would rather do that now that he's 9 then orchestrate playdates and such via a homeschool group. Mostly for the fact that a homeschool group is more likely to be spread throughout the state . For us having those familiar neighborhood faces , to know the local kids well enough to jump in the game if he goes to the park and so on and so forth. That has been pretty positive for him. He is not lonely.

Only children are a little different than even two though. It is a whole different dynamic. What I find really interesting is that my son is often automatically drawn to other "onlies" by default. He forms a stronger bond with those children quicker than he would than the children who have siblings. Not all of the time, but more often than not.I kind of find this interesting since my best friends were also always "onlies" .

[blessed2bmommy]

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the reassurances. I do plan on getting involved with lots of activities for socialization. We're in the military, so I'm not sure where we will be when our children are ready to homeschool. However, I know that within the military community there are a lot of homeschoolers!