I don’t think I’ve seen a publication giving tips on connecting with homeschoolers, unless it was a home education magazine or publication.  I like it!  From Scouting Magazine:

Plug Into the Network

Why hooking up with the homeschooled can boost your pack.

Homeschool families can make a great addition to many packs because they’re child-focused, contain involved parents, and often share many of Cub Scouting’s core values. How can you connect with homeschool families in your community? Read on..

This other article conveyed a radical homemaker’s lifestyle brilliantly.  So Meet the Radical Homemakers, as illustrated in Yes Magazine. I think there are a few radical homemakers in that radical homeschooling community.  Below is what the usual mantra was…probably still is.  It’s hard to say when you’re outside ‘on the farm’ looking in:

Homemaking, like eating organic foods, seemed a luxury to be enjoyed only by those wives whose husbands garnered substantial earnings, enabling them to drive their children to school rather than put them on a bus, enroll them in endless enrichment activities, oversee their educational careers, and prepare them for entry into elite colleges in order to win a leg-up in a competitive workforce. At the other extreme, homemaking was seen as the realm of the ultra-religious, where women accepted the role of Biblical “Help Meets” to their husbands. They cooked, cleaned, toiled, served and remained silent and powerless. My husband and I fell into neither category, and I suspected there were more like us.

Author Shannon Hayes went over the The Origins of Homemaking: A vocation for both sexes.  Housewives and husbands were free people, who owned their own homes and lived off their land.  That was before the Industrial Revolution and the ’60s.

Hayes mentioned Betty Friedan a couple of times too. I’ve had a few thoughts about hers (and others’) versions of the Feminine Mystique here, in A Betty Friedan throwback…

There are many pieces of this article that can replace homemaking with home education, and be on the mark.  Following that, many homeschoolers have built their homes into rich and nourishing bases of good food, good company, good books and good times.  Indeed, Shannon Hayes did insert a Yes article link to John Gatto:

The Radical Homemakers were skilled at the mental exercise of rethinking the "givens" of our society and coming to the following conclusions: nobody (who matters) cares what (or if) you drive; housing does not have to cost more than a single moderate income can afford (and can even cost less); it is okay to accept help from family and friends, to let go of the perceived ideal of independence and strive instead for interdependence; health can be achieved without making monthly payments to an insurance company; child care is not a fixed cost, education can be acquired for free; and retirement is possible, regardless of income.

But this article wasn’t about homeschooling, even as so many of us can connect with the description of radical homeschoolers.  That’s what I enjoyed about this article and the scouting article.  There were accurate descriptions of a good lifestyle that revolve around "life skills and relationships as replacements for gold, on the premise that he or she who doesn’t need the gold can change the rules"  - per Shannon Hayes’ description. There’s many like us out there in this great, wide world.  We can find our overlapping space in those Venn diagrams with ease.