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[quote=Anonymous]A few years back, as a nanny, I worked part-time for two families with kids the same exact ages.  In the am I worked with a HS family and I did after school care for kids in a top public school in NoVA (and one of the parents was high up at NAEYC, so definitely a good public school).

I took both sets of kids, separately, to the Folklife Festival.  The homeschool kids were fascinated and asked lots of questions, jumped in and tried new things and learned a lot.  The public school kids asked, "So, like, what are we supposed to do?"  They looked at some of the exhibitions, but no questions and the only thing they engaged in was the worksheets in the kid's tent.  They just didn't get how to engage with something that wasn't currated in some way.

Now that my own kids are school-aged, that is a big part of why we are homeschooling.  I want them to think creatively and not wait for someone to tell them what is and isn't interesting.  We also really love the schedule.  We go to museums, travel, etc. at times when the rest of the DC area is at school.  We have some homeschool buddies as well as church friends so we get some socialization in through that and some from extracurriculars (mostly sports/language right now).  I also sign them up for summer camps.  So we sort of have a reverse school year where our summers are more structures and the rest of the year is less so.  It gives me a chance to plan and research for the following year and it exposes them to more of the lifestyle that most kids their age are living with so they can function well in that world.[/quote]

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