My step-mom found this and asked me to put this on my blog.
I really liked it and hope you do too, so here goes...

Home school Kids Don't Have Socialization skills like public schooled children!!!
Yeah Right!
I find it hard to understand what people mean when they say this, or why it’s usually the first thing they think of when the topic of homeschooling comes up. If they mean that sending your child to spend 8 hours a day with a bunch of kids their age in relatively unsupervised conditions is going to help develop their socialization skills, I am baffled.
If you wanted your child to learn how to bowl, ski, play the piano, swim or learn ballet, would you send them to a group of kids their age to learn these skills, or would you seek a mentor who knew how to bowl, ski, played the piano, swam or danced ballet?
The skill of socialization is the same as any skill. Children stand to learn a skill quicker and more complete when mentored by a few that are more mature in that skill. Kids learn how to "survive" in public school more than how to properly socialize. Homeschooled children are more likely to get loving, supportive attention at home than in a public setting. “Anything goes” to get attention in public school and public schooled children quickly learn that manipulation of various forms works to get the attention they seek.
Hum, yeah, twenty years from now, that’s the kind of person I want leading this country; someone that learned socialization from public schools and learned manipulate is the way to get what you want.
If you communicate with your kids in a truthful mature manner they will learn to get and receive attention the same way, a mature social skill.
Oh gosh, now homeschooled kids won’t learn how to “survive” when they get into the “real world”.
If I expected my children to go to prison, then they definitely would need to know how to “survive”, but I expect my children to go to college, go to church and live in a community where normal socialization skills are abundant and “survivor” skills are frowned upon.
Home school Kids Don't Have the same Socialization skills like public schooled children – for sure!!!