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My wife and I homeschooled all of our kids, although one was just for like two weeks. It was a stopgap.

And as we homeschooled, we were very aware that they need good social skills. And I felt like the

homeschooling experience gave us some great opportunities for them to develop non-peer social skills.

Homeschoolers get to learn how to talk to adults.

They learn how to be in all sorts of circumstances that typical schools don't always afford.

And there would be a stigma, though, with that.

I think that we've heard out there that homeschool kids don't have the best social skills.

Yeah, they're isolated.

Right.

That's what my parents actually said is, John, you're depriving your son of being socially, you know, adept.

We said, actually, I think if you just wait a while, you'll see that it's not the case.

That's right.

So regardless of your educational choices, we have to learn how to help our kids grow in social skills. That's part of life.

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting team. And, you know,

there's, there are all sorts of approaches here, Danny. I mean, you can do formal etiquette training.

There are family trips where you're visiting relatives and the kids better have social skills there.

How about you and Heather? What kind of opportunities did you have for the kids?

Well, yeah, and just going back for a second to the topic of the homeschool family, just to help out with that.

I've gone to several conventions and seen some amazing social skills in the youth.

These are homeschool conventions.

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