Age gap between my own child and daycare kids

[playfelt]

Have you been able to connect with any other homeschooling families. Many of them will also have both age groups of children. That would give him the older kids to play with and sometimes families share in the sense of one takes the little ones while the other one takes the older kids and does a science experiment or something more age appropriate.

With summer break starting in a week the issue will resolve itself which gives you the summer to sort out the social aspects for next school year but linking to homeschool groups is probably your best resource.

You might also hire an older student that could do something with your son when their school is out and for a hire school student that would be mid afternoon. A university student would have some daytime hours to come and do something one on one special for one of his subjects of interest - or one you prefer not to teach then it is win for both of you.

[Crayola kiddies]

I have my own 7 yr old son and although he is not hone schooled he is off for the summer after tomorrow, the other school age boy that I had all year is not coming this summer so all the kids will be 2/3 yr olds and we live in the country so can't just go to a friends for part of the day .... So what I did was "hire" my son.... I am going to pay him to help me organize cleanup time, help to put on shoes and zip zippers for outside time, help with puzzles and read stories. That way he doesn't feel like he's in daycare cause he's not and when the kids are napping he will get to watch tv in my room or play hockey in the garage or what ever he wants to do that's quiet. He is very excited about it and he's already dreaming of all the money he's going to have at the end of summer