KKWilliams wrote:
Wanderlust, as a homeschooling dad myself I can tell that some of the comments about socialization of the kids and need for it hit close to home for you. No one here was being critical of your family or your choices. You asked a question of whether you are crazy for thinking of full timing with teenagers and people answered that question. They were giving you the input that you asked for in your post. There is a lot of good information here about the different aspects of life on the road. My suggestion would be to start over. Introduce yourself. Then ask for some help working through your questions.
You are afraid of not have a stick and brick house to have as a backup. I bet a lot of people who are full timers have had that same fear. How did they handle it? Sounds like a lot of people saying try it for a few weeks or a month before you put it on the market. Most people don't just jump into it. My family is thinking about it right now. We have spent over a month on the road at a time. We really enjoy it. Our family works more smoothly without having to worry about the chores and such when we are on the road. This next summer we are thinking of giving it a three month trial to see if we really really like traveling with all of the kids. We are planning now for next summer.
If you are still reading this thread what other concerns do you have? That people who have been doing this for a while can help you with? Have you picked a TT, 5ver or MH? What are you using for a TV or Toad?
No one knows your family like you do. If you have thought this through then go for it. If you are in the beginning stages of this, my advice is to plan it through. Look at maps and find places that you could get to and return back to work every two weeks. Plan some longer trips where maybe you fly back for two weeks and the rest of the family stays put or moves further along to stretch out your geographical area.
Stay excited about it, and have fun with the process. Good luck!
You are right, I probably took the unsocial comments the wrong way bc we hear it every single day. My kids are involved in activities that they can miss and pick back up so that's not an issue. We are apart of tons of homeschool sites and random people ask questions all the time. The parents there welcome new people and I addressed this site the same way. I didn't feel the need to go into details, but my wife and I both grew up camping all summers and actually met that way. We own a small camper now and do travel the two weeks I am off. We have talked of getting a bigger rv for 3 years and using that time to really enjoy our kids. As a homeschool dad we hear all the time you must be ready for them to go back to school we hate our kids home. I guess we are just those weird people that like being around our teenagers. We have made the decision to do it, just wasnt sure if we should rent our home out to see how it went. But we are actually ready to move on from this house either way. We were already talking about building this would just be a year break. I expected people who had full timed with kids to give the good and the bad. Not the responses I got. However the area we are in, it isn't uncommon. We have a lot of traveling jobs in our area and have rv parks that cater to only people who work in certain jobs here. Maybe it's bc we are in the south, where so many people have this option. Thanks for all the advice.
