How to make new friends if home schooled.?

-Hello Im home schooled now as a freshman, and sometimes talk to my old friends from middle school. And I only talk to one of them all the time. I feel like their just blowing me off now like they dont wanna hang with me anymore. And not answering my texts and this is getting old its not like I liked them that much anyway. So I would just like to start over. Im a guy and id like to be friends with more girls than guys because most dudes are just lame and immature. Id like to form a group were there are guys and girls you know. Because in the past I was friends with some girls and guys but we never all hang together because they dont know each other. Any way I wanna drop these friends now because they dont care about me and their wasting my time. So how do I make new friends, I would like to join a homeschool support group but i cant find any. I live in the suburbs and i was looking for some around chicago. Also I wanna vollenteer but i cant find any. So what can I do? thanksThere are many ways to meet friends and to be active while homeschooling such as:

Take up a new hobby or expand on a current one

Volunteering

Join a homeschool co-op

Join a homeschool social group

Join the YMCA, YWCA, Boys Club/Girls Club

Take classes through the local recreation center or private studio such as: sports, dancing, martial arts, art etc

Learn to play a musical instrument

Book Clubs

Scouts

Activities through your church/synagogue/mosque/coven etc
Homeschool Support Groups are one place to look for new friends. I have Chicago area groups linked here:

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/regi鈥?/a>



At 14 your interests are also starting to solidify, so join community groups where all sorts of people enjoy the same things you do.



If you want to meet girls, you will want to join groups that attract a lot of girls. Book Clubs come to mind, if you enjoy talking about good books with girls. Join co-ed sports teams - swimming and tennis come to my mind first here. Girls also tend to love animals - and guys who like animals. Volunteer at the humane society!



We solved part of the "friends" problem by inviting old friends over for a "study hall" right after school, saving some of the homeschool studying for that time. The others had to tell their parents where they were, and being hungry after school, we asked all to contribute snack food. After work was done they'd play computer games, go swimming, or go out to the park for a ball game. Other parents were often at work, and appreciated knowing their young teens were being supervised. This group stayed friends for many years. One dropped by the other day with his children. It was great to see him again.



Ann Zeise

A to Z Home's Cool Inc.

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/