Raising Future Adults

I lived in the High Desert of Southern California for a time. It was there that I began homeschooling my sons and it was there that I started my "shotgun marriage" to the internet. While there I joined a gifted homeschoolers email list called TAGMAX and I often seemed to have much better advice than average for particularly thorny problems. I never knew how to relate to that. It was that experience that caused me to begin blogging -- because there was clear need for what I knew -- but my writing has never really caught on, least of all my writing about parenting and homeschooling, though that was where my blogging began. The High Desert is about 3000 feet above sea level, but it's called the High Desert because it's mostly flat. I have a fear of heights but this wasn't an issue there because although you are up high in terms of sea level, you aren't up on some steep cliff face where you might fall. There are some crags sticking up out of it but it doesn...