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seekingmyLord -> RE: Only child... (7/16/2008 12:29:00 PM)
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I have only had one so I think my perspective on this is going to be different from yours since you had more and are just homeschooling your youngest alone now.
I used to be concerned, because my daughter is a social butterfly--she just loves EVERYONE--so I thought that I should get my daughter in a homeschool group. We did try that for a time, but I found myself feeling like we had to rush through lessons to get to this or that activity, all the while I also felt the Lord telling me this was not the course for us to take at that time. It seemed to me that most of the children in several activities were having fun, but not particularly focused on a certain gift. On the other hand, my daughter is very gifted in music--piano is not really social activity--and we spend at least an hour a day on that alone.
What I have found with having only one is that my daughter has time to daydream and develop her wonderful imagination and to create and even compose her own little songs--she is just 7yo. (I would have loved that kind of time without younger siblings to look after as a child.) Even with my husband's new job where he travels throughout the week, she is still a social butterfly whenever we are out and about. Of course, we also have some church activities.
Personally, I look at it this way: This is the Lord's child and He will guide her path. If and when she needs to "socialize," He will provide.
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