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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Michelle teaches the older kids some of their subjects in a group setting. I think math and maybe English is done separately. The younger ones get help from the older one because JimBob and Michelle feel a good way to learn is to teach.
They all take piano and violin.
They do hang out with neighbors and go to homeschool conferences. They took a trip to NY not long ago and the older kids have cars from what I've heard and jobs outside the house. They are far from unsocialized. |
(jubes) They are not unsocialized they are just only socialized with children of families that have the exact same beliefs. They had said on the show that they want the children to continue the way they are being raised. The had another family that they went out with on a group outing to ice skating...the dads grew up together etc. They were kind of hoping or rather guiding a relationship with their oldest son to the oldest daugther.
I have no problem with a family that prays together but I think that children need to be a part of the ever evolving world.
There is an atty that I work with who is Jewish. He has raised the children very religiously and all that stuff. They have gone to yeshiva etc. Now that the eldest who is turning 18 is getting ready to go to college (a main stream one) she is kind of floundering.
I think it's fine to raise them in your faith but when you limit them to only that world it will bite you in the behind in the end. That young girl is now having anxiety attacks about the whole main stream and about how things in the outside world will and might infringe on her way of being raised.