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After reading so many well-thought out responses from the homeschool opponents about homeschool kids being unsocialized (including the one that directed us to the very informative South Park episode about homeschoolers), I'm now asking those well-informed individuals to heIp me brainstorm how I can socialize my kids without putting them in the institutionalized setting of public school.

...Or were people not "socialized" before the last two or three generations. One-room schoolhouses were much more similar to homeschool than modern public schools.

So here's my dilemma:

With Awana, team gymnastics, soccer, basketball, dance, church, church activities, kids' choir, homeschool co-op, traveling to France and China with other kids and their families, local field trips, piano, guitar, and drum lessons, drama workshops, playdates, birthday parties, etc., I just don't have time to socialize my kids.

Any suggestions?