Enjoying a cup of coffee myself this morning, getting emotionally ready to go out into the world. Have meetings today in far away places... Miles to go before I sleep.
I entertained 3 kids yesterday with pony rides on Bay... Wore me out!
Some of those on that thread remind me of the original fear I had of homeschooling, before meeting you and 2J. There are some that home school because their view on the world is so rigid and narrow that they try to create a perfectly protected and isolated environment for their children, and fear the slightest unscreened influence on their children will upset the delicate artificial dreamworld they have created.
It is those rigid extremists that I used to associate with homeschooling. How do those kids cope with the world when they find out that it contains a whole lot of stuff their parents never talked about? - By the time I graduated from (public) High School I knew that half the world disagreed or lived differentyl than my Dad... And maybe my Dad had enough confidence that he was right to let me hear it and make my own assessment of the world as it really is.... Full of opposing ideas. I heard from them, considered them, and decided that I still liked most of my Dad's ideas best.
In your experience, when you meet other homeschooled kids (from the extremist parents that are indeed homeschooling out there), are there many that are not prepared to live in the real world that often does not match their own views, or is this an imaginary problem I have created because I don't know? How many hit the real world and either freak out and run home, or go on the wildest sin-spree you ever did see?
Primarily asking Jen, because I can't ask 2J's kids because they are too young, but interested in 2J's feelings on the matter, and any others in the hole who homeschool, who have had more contact probably, with the extremists among them.