Your boys are blest. You have instilled
a desire for investigating their own talents.
However, I suggest that their needs and
desires are going to change in a very few
years. Teenagers are notoriously gungho
toward venturing beyond the back yard.
Dear Grendel9,
"Your boys are blest."
Thank you.
"However, I suggest that their needs and
desires are going to change in a very few
years. Teenagers are notoriously gungho
toward venturing beyond the back yard."
I'm more sanguine about those years than I used to be. I've seen what happens to homeschoolers as they grow to teenagers, and it's really quite a sight.
In many ways, my sons are already rather independent. They've acquired their own tastes and preferences, their own interests. It has often been surprising and always delightful to watch them develop interests and explore them. It isn't my fault that they're turning out more conservative than I am, in many ways. ;-)
I expect that they will become more independent as they get older. The homeschoolers that we know do become more independent as they get into their teen years. However, as the twig is bent the tree grows.
The transition to adulthood seems smoother for them, more straightforward. That "ordinary" teenaged rebellion is pretty much absent. The homeschooled teens that I know want their freedom, but not to pursue vices, but rather virtues. They aspire to great things, and they have a habit of achieving those things to which they aspire.
I look forward to my sons' teen years. I look forward to their increasing confidence in their own capacities, I look forward to seeing them grow increasingly strong, physically, intellectually, psychologically and emotionally, and spiritually.
I've seen these years with other homeschoolers, and I'm excited to get there with my own two sons.
sitetest