Building networks

If you build it they will come...right?  It worked with the LLL Group this past year that I started up and now I am hoping the same will hold true to the home learning network that I am putting out there.  Today the kids and I posted flyers about a new home learning group we are hoping to start up  in the area. When we got home we already had a phone call from a family we have never met.  Good start! 

I am working on the idea hope that there are homeschooling families of all styles in this area and they just have not had the right push to start networking.  We are hoping to simply connect home learning families on a social level.  Nothing deep, no plans for a co-op or planning, just good old fashioned chats and social activities.  

Homeschooled children are different.  They do have some different needs.  They are normal but maybe not typical when compared to some of their schooled peers.  This is not a bad different and some would argue that it can be or is a better different.  Getting together with families who are living similar lives is good to keep up the morale.  It feels good to get together with other families who know what it means to spend large amounts of time together as a family.  It can be a relief to be around others without the need to explain how the children learn without a classroom, if they will ever go to school or how they will get into university. 

So I am building and praying they will come!