I was wondering if anyone else has a homeschooling family right next door like I do. Also, if there is another family homeschooling close to you, does your schedule seem to get influenced by theirs?
My neighbor "homeschooled" her granddaughter the last six months they lived next door. Their schedule didn't influence ours.
We have several families in our little community. The only way it influences us is that ds has a few friends that we plan playdates with during school hours. Ds just knows that school has to be done by a certain time on those days, or I will cancel the playdate.
We have 1 other family on our street. Their kids are between mine in age, so we don't mix often. Last year their was 3 other families on our street and my kids didn't get to play or go out until schoolwork was done.
I will say we do have a very active homeschool community in the Athens area, but, Athens is a bit of a trip for me so I can't join in everything I would like to because of gas prices. I live in the boonies. My closest homeschool group meets at a bad time for us but I had decided to rearrange our schedule this year to make more dates....then they went and changed the location so we're back up to gas prices issue again :/ I've considered seeing if I could start one up that meets weekly near me, but in the boonies....there aren't many good meeting places (there aren't any good parks in the area-seriously, my town calls a patch of grass with 2-5 picnic tables a park!)
We have a homeschool family right down the street from us. We are actually part of the same homeschool group but we attend different co-ops. Our schedule does not normally line up with theirs, just because of the activities we are involved in are scheduled at different times then the activities they are involved in (plus they have more kids, so crazier schedule). We do occassionally car pool for things/trips we are both doing but it does not always work out.
Just a thought...be careful for what you wish. I thought it would be nice too when a homeschool family rented the house next door, but their lifestyle is so very different than ours that I am on the fence often trying to decide between the influence of their children on mine and showing Christian hospitality.
I don't know any HS'ers in our community. I know (through community messages) that there are some, but I have no idea who they are.
We have a homeschooling family right next door to us. Our schedules don't influence the other one. She has 3 boys that she homeschools and 2 are twins that are my sons age. We have done an occasional field trip together and on Wednesdays her twins use our piano for lessons at my house. We use the same piano teacher.
Yes! My next door neighbor homeschools. Our schedules do not influence the other. If her boys come to play, I'll say, "We are still doing lessons. They can play when we've finished." My neighbor says the same thing to my boys when they pop over.
Nope, none THAT close. I'm glad though, I think it WOULD influence our schedule too much. We have a very active homeschooling community, so we get to socialize plenty. Best of both worlds, I think.
We have a lovely, lovely family down the street. For awhile they would allow their son over, and often have mine over, but they got busier and we seem to have dropped off their radar. I send a greeting email every month or so, but they are busy. Nothing bad happened that I know of, and she is terribly friendly when we do meet. I'm a little sorry for my son, who adores their family. Such is life.
Last year when we were in a different state, there was a homeschooling family (half the kids in school, half at home, and the 2 older ones at home were my kids' closest friends). The only way their schedule influenced ours was when it came to morning recess...they had to work around transporting their siblings a longer distance to their schools, so they had a limited window to have recess, so I happily worked around that so our kiddos could have recess together
This is what happened with us, too. The neighbors weren't next door but elsewhere in the subdivision. My wife would arrange occasional joint field trips, and we'd share ideas. This, for example, is how our daughter came to join a homeschool chorale and participate in Spanish lessons with a former missionary to Latin America.
We used to have! The mom and I were/are great friends and used to get the kids together and we could sew together. Was blissful for a season, until I had a baby and we both got busier with homeschooling as the kids got older. Her kids and my two oldest were the same age/sex so that was really nice.
There is one other homeschooling family in the neighborhood but we seldom see each other due to schedules. As much as I have fought it the past two years. I now drive a hour away for my daughter to not only attend Band Class but also attend a Science class with other middle school aged homeschooled children. I am forced to go with the schedule of the homeschoolers that are a hour away if I want my children to be around other homeschooling children on a regular basis. I need it to be around homeschooling families on a regular basis.
Yes we do and we are great friends. However our schedules don't always match up. They have a shorter day and we have a long one but the kids still get together about 3 times a week for a walk or bike ride or just to hang out together. Some days it is wonderful and others ....well not so wonderful.
