Teenagers
Can I just say, having a teenager is so much harder than I thought it would be. I think it's especially difficult having one who was raised with a completely different value system for the first 11+ years of his life, who has difficulty trusting authority figures in general, and who thinks you are insane. Yes, I'm pretty sure our son thinks we are crazy. Without going into details, I'll just say we are very, very tired of being lied to and deceived (not outright lied to but you know what I mean). It's so ugly, it's so terrible, and I am sure that it is very normal but AAAGGGHHHH. We have some serious thinking to do to figure this problem out because it really is a problem. Really. We're to the point we need to start relaxing on rules, giving more freedom...and yet we can't trust him so how can we possibly do that? We only have a few years left. Now. Onto homeschooling. I'm making a list of books to check out from the library to go along with ou...