By Guest Author Thara Reinitz
When you tell people you homeschool, their reactions usually fall into three categories. One is camaraderie. Maybe because they homeschool too, are a homeschool grad, or a homeschool grandparent. This is a great situation because it means you probably just made a friend, even if it is just for a short chat at whatever event you met. The second reaction is impolite. It comes in many forms: nosiness, a negative story about someone they know or heard about, chastening, passive aggressiveness. Whatever form the impoliteness takes, it is uncomfortable but hopefully short lived. The third reaction is, for me, the most difficult; I call it “the wall.”
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