One of the unspoken truths of homeschooling is how lonely it gets. You spend all day with small children who don't necessarily have a lot of

conversational skill yet. You find yourself bored by teaching phonics again. Adding and subtracting doesn't seem that challenging.

And even if you have teens, maybe they're in that weird withdraw from you and only talk to their friends mode,

or maybe they're just endlessly argumentative while they test out what it feels like

to have a contrary opinion.

Home schooling is lonely. We don't have a coffee hour each

day in the teacher's lounge. We can't get up and socialize at the water cooler. We might

be able to use text messages or boxer, but that isn't the

same as friends with skin on. You know what I mean? And sometimes the challenge of

getting out the door to do something alone for yourself in a group

feels like an insurmountable hurdle. Today's conversation is with brave Jennifer Hunter from Canada,

and we talk about the challenge of finding like-minded home educators,

friends, people that we can turn to, not only when things are hard, but even just to share

trivial bits of nonsense, camaraderie, friendship.

Join me? Let's get started. friendship. with Jennifer Hunter of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Jennifer is the mother of four little kids, a girl and three boys,

and loves reading aloud, being outside, and doing arts and crafts.

She sent us a problem that I think outside and doing arts and crafts.

She sent us a problem that I think afflicts many of you

who are listening in today

and I really look forward to talking to her about it.

Jennifer, welcome to the program. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. So share with us a little bit why you

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