I am homeschooling a PG boy, 6.6 years old, only child. We started this past fall, after learning that our local gifted first grade class would be a repeat of kindergarten he did last year in a private school.
My question is, how do you find peers for your homeschooled kids?
We have been trying to attend more local homeschooling groups. There are many coops in our area, but they all have a strong religious component. That is not our reason for homeschooling, and we're not religious, so I'm unwilling to sign up with them.
Even at park play days open to all homeschoolers, it seems expected that kids will evangelize--that seems to be a big part of the local homeschooling culture. We're working hard to teach our son appropriate responses, and other families seem quite taken aback that he doesn't share their beliefs.
We do fine at field trips with other homeschoolers, though I don't feel that I've connected with hardly any other parents.
I don't know of any other PG kids close to my son's age in our area, let alone any that are homeschooling. Ideas?
