I just wanted to point out that much of our countries (Canada and the US) were settled by pioneers, farmers and ranchers who lived far away from towns, schools and neighbours. Their children were educated at home and helped out from young ages. They got to go to town for supplies once in a while, maybe went to some picnics and revival services, barn raisings, etc every once in a while, and while the kids probably were sometimes starving for social outlets, I have a hard time believing that they all turned out to be socially awkward grown ups who couldn't hold a conversation, who were painfully shy, or had crude manners. Of course there were some of those, but there were others who grew up and followed in their parents footsteps of farming or ranching, and still others who became doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs and even presidents perhaps! Certainly in today's day and age social opportunities are easier to come by, and so long as you don't have plans to completely ostracise the child from society I would think he'd be just fine, imo! 
I don't know if you and dh are religious, but going to church on sundays as a family and the kids going to sunday school are huge social outlets for all of us, ds and dd both have their best friends there.
I don't know if you and dh are religious, but going to church on sundays as a family and the kids going to sunday school are huge social outlets for all of us, ds and dd both have their best friends there.
