I home schooled. We are so far ahead of the game. I cannot begin to impress on parents the difference their relationship would be with their children if they didn’t put them in a public school.
I remember not being able to talk to my mom about anything. One, she flat out told me I was exaggerating; she didn’t quite have a grasp of the peer pressure. But our relationship was so confrontational.
A majority of the time, I can have fantastic conversations with my daughter. There are still the teenage hormonal moments, but they are brief and easily forgiven.
I envy your foresight. I feel like I’ve done everything pretty much right, but now I’m starting to look like the bad guy when I am forbidding my daughter to associate with bad apples.....but I don’t care.
We have only 1 chance to do right by our kids, and we owe that to them.
Ping!