One question that I do not like is when people ask, "How do you socialize?"

How? The same way adults that work from home and toddlers and everyone who's not in public school socializes--by meeting people and forming REAL friendships. Will I know the names of the ones I met in public school five years from now? Maybe. But will I remeber our conversations, the games we played...no. I hardly do now. Because they weren't REAL friends. And I think homeschooling gives you an opportunity to make those real friends.

 This evening, while reading an article about a particular museum, I noticed a sentence mentioning field trip packages available for different groups, among which it listed “homeschool families, and parents whose children are in public school”. 

I was stunned.

While I have read similar references countless times, I had never caught the significance before.  Look at the wording:  “Homeschool families.”  “Parents whose children are in public school.”