-— but the slacker urge is so strong ... ——
My youngest has that slacker streak too. I guess it takes being hungry for some people.
Whenever I saw some daylight as a kid, I’d run with it.
I don’t get it. I had one brother at home. My kids have (currently) a total of nine in the house. And yet, they seem to have no drive to achieve independence. Even my 16-year-old, who’s going to be a National Merit Scholar, is looking at in-state universities. At his age, with my test scores (better than his!), I’d drawn a circle 1,000 miles in diameter and wasn’t looking inside.
And I wasn’t hungry, either. I just wanted distance. How can homeschooled kids who do nothing but gripe about their constrictions not want some distance, and go for it when it’s within reach.
Elen can sing in Spanish. If she learned half a dozen songs, she could make more than I do as a wedding-and-funeral soloist, because she has a better voice and more free time. One of the other girls in the homeschool association has a recording contract at 16 ... admittedly, she writes her own songs, but Elen could be working every weekend as a guitarist/soloist, if she wanted to.
It beats the heck out of babysitting!
My brother is the slacker. Which sucks if you are 56.