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Unfriendly Christian Homeschooling Moms?

I went to a local christian homeschool group to join, and I could not believe how cold the group was. I am new to homeschooling, but not to Christianity (I’ve been a christian for years), and I was completely stunned by everyone’s really stand-offish demeanor. I wondered if it was because I am Hispanic and they were all white, but it seemed that everyone was pretty much on their own; noone was really concerned about the new people or if they knew the other members. I tried to start a conversation with a few members, and they really cut the conversation short; it was clear they “mistrusted me or didn’t want to talk”(seriously I’m not a paranoid person, but I’m not going to force someone to talk!). This is the second supposedly christian group get-together I’ve gone to and the moms have been absolutely unfriendly people. Why on earth is that? Why are the christian homeschool groups so cold and unloving, and decidedly unchristian-like?

They are probably just unfriendly people who got together because they had that in common, and they’re not worth your time nor do they deserve to have you and your children in their group if they’re going to treat you like that.

I don’t think it’s a homeschool thing, nor is it a christian thing. I am not a christian, but my mom is and so are a few good friends of mine, and they are very friendly people. But some people just aren’t friendly, no matter what their religion.

There are two homeschool groups in my area, or at least two very active ones. One is a very large group with more than four hundred members of all different backgrounds, religions, cultures, and education philosophies. We’ve got christians, catholics, athiests, jewish people, all different skin colors, cultural backgrounds, people with disabilities, people who use online school, traditional homeschooling, charlotte mason, corespondance school, unschoolers, you name it. And everyone is welcome to our events and meetings as long as they’re homeschoolers or interested in trying homeschooling.

The second group is very small, only about thirty twenty members. It’s made up of moms who used to be members of the first group but for some reason decided they didn’t like the way it was run. I don’t understand why or what actually happened because we didn’t join the first group until long after. They’re all christians, all white, and all homeschooling the same way, using the same curriculum, etc, and they do seem rather cold. When we were first looking for a group, we tried this one first because we thought it was a nice, close knit group that would be perfect for us. We didn’t know enough about it. They were very cold towards us when my mom started talking to the other mom’s. They were fine giving us homeschool information, but that stopped too when mom said she didn’t want to use a christian based curriculum with me or make me go to chuch and when she told them that we do a sort of homeschool/unschool mix. When we asked about group meetings and how we can join, we were ust told very coldly that they aren’t allowing any new members to join at that time… So we went looking elsewhere and found the bigger group, and it is absolutely WONDERFUL.

So just don’t take it too personally and don’t get worked up over it. See if there are other groups in your area that you could try. I’m sure you’ll find that the majority of homeschoolers, even christian homeschoolers, are NOT like this. Best of luck

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