On Jan 9, 2:13 pm, Skip Gundlach wrote:

Call for experienced full time cruising (with/as) homeschooled
teenagers

As a past Medium Security Juvenile Detention Facility (age 12-17)
Group Worker (guard), Oregon Licensed Teacher (K-8), past cruiser now
liveaboard, and good Dad to a daughter now 20 y.o.

Don't take you 15 year old cruising. A couple weeks WITH a friend is
fine. DO NOT think youre going to sail for months and she is going to
love learning geography-marine biology etc and develop a love for all
things you think you love. Besides, helping a kid learn (notice I did
not say "teach") is not a simple task. Try this.......... Go get a manual
titled, "Learn How To Fly". Read the book. Get into an airplane, Now
go take off, fly around and land. Silly analogy????? Then go help a
kid learn about two digit subtraction with regrouping. Or better
yet......... algebra in your case. Just because you have a book (home school
curriculum materials) don't mean its going work. You need to know what
your doing.

In other words, have you ever tried to tile a room, make your first
quilt, etc. Imagine how you ****ed up the first few times and had to
start over again before you got it right???
Now how you going to help your daughter learn algebra or persuasive
writing so they will pass the SATs. You AINT no teacher and your not
the center of your daughters universe. She would LOVE to visit you
with a friend. But 24/7 and no friends???? You got to be kidding. This
is a time when kids are doing their best to become independent adults.
Allow her to do that and stop being so god damn selfish. You are no
longer the center of her universe. SOrry to say they grow up and get
their won life. Give her that chance to grow up and let her stay with
relatives. Or maybe youre thingking "but noone is as good a parent as
me. I cant trust anyone with my daughter for that long." If so you
reall are one sick controlling parent.

At age 15 the most important thing in her life AINT YOU!

Bob