I took my children to a park meeting for our home schooling support group this morning. I thought they needed the "socialization", yes the dreaded S word. I am a little concerned to discover that they have decided that they really don't need anyone else but each other. They stuck together like glue the entire time. They even held hands. Occasionally, the middle little person would talk to the other home schooled children, but not often. She also displayed a strong tendency to stick as close to me as she could, so did the oldest little person. However, the youngest little person didn't want me to touch her the entire time. She wanted to run free and do whatever she wanted. Even if that meant taking other children's toys away and walking out in front of occupied moving swings. Needless to say, I spent my whole morning chasing the littlest, saving her from certain brain damage, encouraging the other two to introduce themselves to people while feeling generally excluded from the adult circle at the same time. I am not sure what we need. But we don't need to waste gas, time, and energy doing that. I am not sure what to do about going to "game day" with this group on Thursday. Maybe I will motivate myself to try again. I would like to form some sort of friendship with other human beings that inhabit this planet. It would be plus if they lived within a hundred mile radius of my house. Or maybe we should just move to the woods and forget about it.

Posted by gwendolyn on March 13, 2001 at 03:22 PM