| When homeschooling high school, it is difficult | | | | business, but mostly it is just gone. |
| identifying passion in your children - even when | | | | When he was 11, though, I do not know that I |
| they are standing still. It is even more difficult | | | | could have told you whether he would be an |
| when you realize that their passionate interests | | | | economist or an architect (or anything else.) I just |
| and pursuits will ebb and flow over time. Like | | | | knew that he had passionate interests in some |
| driftwood floating in the tide, sometimes it | | | | very unique things. |
| appears to be coming to shore, and other times it | | | | I have written often about how important it is to |
| seems to be going out to sea! Our children do not | | | | feed your children's passionate interests. I think it |
| ever seem to stand still, and even their interests | | | | is also worth mentioning that those interests may |
| are a moving target. | | | | change over time. It does not mean that you |
| Now that my children are 20 and 22, I can look at | | | | have failed them, or that they have failed |
| their chosen fields (economics and engineering) | | | | somehow to maintain their own interests. It may |
| and remember all the clues they exhibited when | | | | just mean they are "done" with that topic, and |
| they were younger. I can see that they were | | | | are ready to move on. You can certainly drop it, |
| born and destined for this work their whole lives. | | | | and let them pursue the next thing. |
| On the other hand, there were also clues that | | | | I have a friend with a very musical daughter. She |
| have completely been lost over the years. My | | | | was very disappointed when her talented |
| elder son used to draw diagrams all the time. | | | | daughter quit taking piano. A year later her |
| Architectural drawings and design work that he | | | | daughter was excelling at another instrument |
| did for many years. The interest ebbed and | | | | (guitar) and leading the worship band with a guitar. |
| flowed. One day it was gone. We still see the | | | | Her passionate interest in piano ended - and she |
| twinkle in his eye now and then, when we move | | | | went on the do the "next thing". It was not a |
| around the furniture, or take a tour of a house or | | | | failure; it was more like a completion! |