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Originally Posted by nahkoe
Exactly... My kids are exposed to far more belief systems while we're home schooling than they are even in public school. And theories and ideas and ideals and the reasons these things exist. They'll encounter it in the real world, I won't shelter it from them at home.
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Right on. I have a friend that attended college with a girl that was home schooled and very much sheltered by her parents - to the extent that she'd never spent the night away from home other than with family, didn't watch TV or anything and wasn't exposed to any culture at all - and then decided to go to a college 3,000 miles from home. She went from being incredibly homesick and scared to going absolutely crazy doing things that she shouldn't have been involved in. Obviously, this is one extreme case and not the case for every home schooled child, but it goes to show that overprotecting your children might not be best in the end.
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