September Soundings - 1. Socialisation

I will prob come back to this and re-edit a number of times. However, shal start as a mind-dump.

Although I don’t worry about socialisation as in the skill of being able to socialise and interact with peers, and I’m not convinced school is the best place to learn about being sociable, I am very keen to make sure that SB has plenty of opportunities to make friends, and see them regularly. I am prob a somewhat antisocial bugger - due to inability to learn social niceties at school - but am going to grad dip toes into local wed meets. I think if chris not working, he may do the fri pm. if he is, I may occais. get to do it instead [work rostas permitting]

added 1:I do worry that if we don’t get it right she will have the same difficulties as me. I also worry that she will regret/resent as she grows older the lack of friends and confidantes if we don’t get it right. i also worry that after school clubs not well suited to friend making - though if she goes to rainbows and ballet in the village, maybe there will be others doing both. At least if we try to be active or at least attend a certain number of home ed events we may have a better chance of a circle of friends - its a shame none are particularly close to get to.

More realistically, I would like to have an open house for home-edding families travelling around the country to drop by at - so take this as an invite. [although we aren't the most exciting of the home-ed community, and our housekeeping record one of worst on blogring]