Socialization.
Another benefit of having children in our series, is that you don’t have to send them to school to socialize them! (Sorry to disappoint the anti-homeschooling people…) but, having a large family creates the natural opportunity to handle and learn all kinds of social issues.
After all, what is socialization? To me, it is the process by which a person learns to “get along with others”, share their things, their thoughts, and their interests, function in a communal way where people help each other, and basically learn to communicate at all different levels. Well, there you go! It’s all in the family!
My children haven’t developed a common social deviance where they suddenly become mute when a person out of their peer group speaks to them. That’s not normal. Of course, since they don’t have to go to school to be “socialized” (I hope by now you realize I’m not convinced that school is the proper place to be socialized), they fortunately get to by-pass all the other junk that’s there .
