Passionate about home educating and new to Mumsnet

[tarah47]

Hi everyone. I am new to mumsnet, and have arrived here out of frustration and loneliness. My husband and I home educate our 13-year-old son and have been doing so for the past 9 months. I would like to meet other home educating parents online to share ideas etc. I have joined the local home educating network in my town, but haven't made any friends. In fact these people - in the flesh - are snooty and unwelcoming. My son goes to a group every week where these home educated kids get together and says he is treated as though he is invisible. I told him not to worry as none of the parents talk to me and his dad either, despite our attempts to be friendly.

I would love to meet other home educating parents in other parts of the country or world - online - to chat etc.

I have three kids - two are now grown up - and my 13-year-old.

Our 13-year-old is the only one who has been home educated. The other two went through mainstream education.

I'm a really vibrant, friendly person with loads to share.

Thank you.

Tara xx

Hi Tara, am also a mother of an ASD lad who has no desire whatsoever to go to an ASD group. (It caused many ructions with our LEA) His view is "one Aspie in a group is hard enough for all of us to be happy, a whole group of us is just asking for everyone to be unhappy, apart from the person getting paid to run it." (Obviously not everyone would agree with him, some ASD folks do like going)

He's got quite a good overview of himself and we know rather a lot of ASD folk. He'd say to you that it's quite standard for ASD folk to not 'bother' with more than one friend at a time, if that. Since becoming h/e he has managed to make a couple of friendships, and has been accepted by local h/e teens, but finds it very difficult to manage more than one friendship at a time, and needs constant support and prompting to not let them lapse or drift away. It often goes with the territory.