Full-timing it with teenagers?? Are we crazy?
We are considering packing up and going full time as a family of 5 and our dog. We have always homeschooled so that is not an issue, my work schedule is on 2 weeks off 2 weeks. So we would have to sta...
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From my perspective, home schooling is only one aspect of what OP wants to do. Important for sure, but the whole plan of two weeks out, two weeks back, jumping around, living in confined quarters with 5 people and pet, is another big aspect of it.
I find it amazing how many people think that just because they did it for a week or two at a time, and that time was great, that somehow, magically, the full time lifestyle will be just as great, all the time. There's another thread where a guy wants to do a similar thing (home school not part of it). Wants to live in the RV full time with wife, baby and three dogs, work a week, off a week. Looking at Class C size RV. Thinks because he spent time on a 70 ft boat for a couple of weeks with some other couples that it'll be just fine.
Here's the deal.. if people (in general, not just OP) don't want the opinions of others, then they ought not ask the question. Just go do it. If you (the generic you) post a question, you will get an opinion, that is just the way it is. When you change the facts and the assumptions, then the opinions will change. But don't get butt-hurt because you didn't get the answer you wanted to hear from everyone. No one ever gets a consensus, and rarely do you get even a plurality of opinions supporting one decision or another. So, just go do it and be done with it if that's what you want to do.
I do agree that home schooling, done correctly, can and usually is, better than certainly the public schools. And, there is ample opportunity in a STABLE living environment to make friends and have a social life. RV lifestyle in a nomadic existence is not a stable lifestyle for a child/teenager. Gypsies beget gypsies.
Mike
I find it amazing how many people think that just because they did it for a week or two at a time, and that time was great, that somehow, magically, the full time lifestyle will be just as great, all the time. There's another thread where a guy wants to do a similar thing (home school not part of it). Wants to live in the RV full time with wife, baby and three dogs, work a week, off a week. Looking at Class C size RV. Thinks because he spent time on a 70 ft boat for a couple of weeks with some other couples that it'll be just fine.
Here's the deal.. if people (in general, not just OP) don't want the opinions of others, then they ought not ask the question. Just go do it. If you (the generic you) post a question, you will get an opinion, that is just the way it is. When you change the facts and the assumptions, then the opinions will change. But don't get butt-hurt because you didn't get the answer you wanted to hear from everyone. No one ever gets a consensus, and rarely do you get even a plurality of opinions supporting one decision or another. So, just go do it and be done with it if that's what you want to do.
I do agree that home schooling, done correctly, can and usually is, better than certainly the public schools. And, there is ample opportunity in a STABLE living environment to make friends and have a social life. RV lifestyle in a nomadic existence is not a stable lifestyle for a child/teenager. Gypsies beget gypsies.
Mike
