For starters, all the rest of the kids in our extended family attend either public or Catholic school—all my kids’ beloved cousins. (My hubby would say we’re just glad THEY associate with US!)

In our old neighborhood in Virginia, we were one of 3 homeschooling families in the neighborhood. But our kids played with all the kids on the street every day after the school kids got off the bus. In fact, because our yard backed up to a cul de sac, a most delightful (and traffic-free) place to play, there was usually a crowd of children in and out of our yard. I remember how Rose used to watch the clock in the afternoons, waiting for her buddy across the street, Will, to get home from school. She still misses him. (“We had the BEST games together, Mom.”)

Here in San Diego, it’s been a little different…the kids in this neighborhood don’t seem to play outside at all. After two years, we still haven’t met any of them, even though there is a public school directly behind our house. However, my oldest daughter has made a great friend at church, a girl who attends the parish school. There are several schoolchildren in our Little Flowers group as well. We don’t by any means deliberately limit connections with non-homeschooling families, but it does seem as though chance and circumstance have a lot to do with those connections being formed.

We also have used Latin in the Christian Trivium for the older kids, and again I give it high marks for a Christian high school Latin program. http://www.latintrivium.com
Obviously much more structured though.

And since the Greek started me thinking about Latin, IMHO I’d be a little careful with the Latin program that Hey Andrew offers- Latin’s Not So Tough. It’s good for younger kids, but it teaches the verbs in their declined forms, not the paradigms that both make Latin so miserable, but understandable also. Sorry, that doesn’t even sound like that sentence is in English! But it’s an important detail.