Reply #182: But eventually that homeschooled child has to grow up and live and work

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with all those public schooled kids, who already know how to deal with each other. Coming from experience and being one of those homeschooled kids, it is much easier to learn those hard lessons when you are young than when you are an adult and they can do permanent damage. Only being around people that love and support everything you do does not prepare a child for the real world. The world is full of mean, manipulative, and backstabbing people, and if your child is not able to distingish the difference between people they can trust and people that are out to do them harm, they are much more likely to be the victims of these people than to be the one who overcomes them.