Product Description

"But What About Socialization? Answering the Perpetual Home Schooling Question" uses hard research, facts, and home schoolers' experience to answer questions and counteract myths about home schooling and socialization. In this remarkable book, Dr. Susan McDowell presents a comprehensive look at this key issue in home education, and addresses many topics, including:

· Just What Is Socialization? Looking at the Multiple Meanings Behind the Question
· Voices From the Front: What Home Schooling Parents, Authors, Leaders, and Home Schooled Children Have to Say About the Socialization Issue
· What Does the Research Have to Say? A Detailed Look at More than 20 Research Studies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #269035 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 130 pages

Dr. Brian D. Ray, President, National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, OR
"This book is a great help to any homeschool parent who has ever experienced angst over the 'socialization question.'"

E.B., home schooling mother
"Fantastic - very readable and very helpful. I wish I'd had this book when I first started home schooling!"

Dr. Robert Crowson, Professor, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
"Very readable. Indeed, sprightly and well focused."

Customer Reviews

"The Well-Adjusted Child" is far better
This is not a terrible book. Although the author is clearly quite superstitious (Christian), and some of the reasoning reflects the logical breaks there, this is a worthwhile read.

However, covering the same ground far better is, "The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling," by Rachel Gathercole:
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling

Amazing book!!
As a homeschooled child, age 15, I bought this book because I am currently writing a research report on the benefits of homeschooling. As a high school homeschooler, I am often faced with the question: "What About Socialization?" asked repeatedly by my friends, public-schooled peers, and even members of my immediate family! When I bought this book and read it, I felt like throwing it at every person who has ever asked me that question. This is an amazing book that tackles the issue used against homeschooling and turns it into a well-researched review of what socialization truly is and how it is yet another benefit of homeschooling. So, really, even if you are just curious about this subject, BUY THIS BOOK. It is worth 120 pages of your time.

Very encouraging
Have friends or family members been bothering you about the socialization question? this book is a quick and easy read. no grandparent who has time to complain about your decision to homeschool will have any excuse not to read through this book. buy several copies and hand them out.

Also if you find yourself questioning your own decision to homeschool because of other people's attacks regarding socialization then this book will help to remind you that you are doing the right thing. Ultimately it will be your comfort and confidence that will convince people to stop attacking your decisions. if you are wavering on the issue then people will sense that and swoop in for the kill. If you are confident however then people will sense that too and they will begin to question their own ignorant ideas about socialization. Another good socialization book is "the socialization trap" by Rick Boyer which deals more with the negative aspects of socializing kids in the age segregated environments so common in modern institutional school settings.

As a homeschooling mom of two I say stop letting people get away with ignorant remarks about how your child will be socially deprived if they are homeschooled. Do the research and be ready to point out that in fact your children will be BETTER off socially than their institutionally schooled counterparts.