Everyone keeps asking us her plans. What d[NoCache]oes she plan to do after graduation
Ever since she was 13 she wanted to take a gap year. At that time she didn’t really know why.
Now she does. She wants to work on her company. This beautiful wonderful adventure that she has worked so hard on for two years. She would never go off to school and leave it. She has done over 250 events since she started it when she was 16. She also doesn’t want to leave our church. She adores leading kids church and her small group of 4th and 5th grade girls.
She has always told me that she didn’t want to go to college just because that’s what she was supposed to do. Several people have tried to get her to let them make an appointment for her at various colleges to talk to them about possible scholarships. She just was never interested. She wants to have a plan for what she wants to do in her life before she enters college. She has lots of plans. The only one that actually involves a degree is a child psychologist. She told me that at 24 if she decides she wants to do it she would go to college then.
She plans on working on her educational Instagram and Facebook and YouTube channel. She’s going to teach three classes at a homeschool co-op. She wants to take a couple of classes because she always wants to learn. She is tossing around the idea of writing curriculum for homeschoolers. We want to do some traveling. Not huge traveling because we can’t afford it but just a few trips to places we wanted to go. And she wants to invest more time in making Magical Memories even better.
I have no fear for her future. She has always been the person who gives 150%.
All I have ever wanted her to do was be happy. And she is one of the happiest people I know. And I firmly believe that’s because she loves so many things.
Homeschooling has given her the confidence to do things her way. I hope she never loses that.
Homeschooling Rocks,
Karen
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin’ might mean takin’ chances, but they’re worth takin’
Lovin’ might be a mistake, but it’s worth makin’
Don’t let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin’ out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
My oldest daughter took a gap year and loved it. She joined us in Peru for that year and served with all her heart in an orphanage and she loved those kids. She’s in her last year of college now and she is so. burned. out. No debt, thankfully, but now she has people telling her she needs to continue and get her masters. She says NO WAY. She is done. My oldest tried college. It wasn’t for him. Just the other day a friend asked me why I don’t go “back to school”. I told her it has not been laid on my heart. Anyway, you have raised an intelligent, confident, amazing young woman and she has been changing the world one smile at a time.
I wish the world in general would really stop and evaluate college and the idea *of* college. There are literally hundreds of reasons not to go.
Neither one of my homeschooled kids want college, although Matt went long enough to get his associate’s degree, he evaluated the debt that was beginning to accumulate and decided that it wasn’t worth selling his soul.
The craziness of having to take things that aren’t germane to one’s course of study. “Well rounded” is the official explanation, but the real explanation is tenured professors and the money pit.
And I know a lot of very intelligent people.
College wasn’t what made them that way.
In fact, I see a great deal of stupidity in the finished products of higher education… the airheaded twits who are currently graduating.
Exceptions to every rule of course, and YMMV.
But Keilee is smart to avoid the mess unless she really wants it. Smart smart smart. 🙂
That is a great graduation song.
What lovely plans. College is way overrated. It is amazing how many people are not using their degree and carry around huge debt. Neither of my kids are planning to go either, at least not at the moment. I have no doubt she will do great things. She already is doing great things!!
Blessings, Dawn