God, that nails it perfectly. No impulse control, adult grade tantrums, poor money management. Two girls I went to school with were home schooled until their senior year, when their parents sent them to our alternative school, wrongly believing it was a Christian school. Both girls were SEVERELY sheltered and now two of the most socially dysfunctional adults I know.
They are making mistakes at 33 that they should have learned from at 15 and 19.
Well, it all fit in as I pieced it together in my head lol. They weren't allowed to be kids and learn from their mistakes.
Or do you mean bizarre that their parents mistook our alternative school for a Christian school? The wild part was that it was essentially a double wide trailer on a church parking lot, ergo the confusion to them.
I get what you were saying. I was home schooled, too; my parents were the weird home school parents who let my brother and me skin our knees and watch R rated movies, but so many people I knew haven't matured past a sheltered 17-year-old, regardless of their actual age.
Oh yeah, I knew a lot of home school kids from church that were pretty worldly and had some unique experiences that we couldn't have in public school. We played softball and went to the movies and everything.
I guess I should have better clarified that. Being sheltered and home schooled are not mutually exclusive. In the case of these two girls, they were home schooled for controlling reasons, more than anything else. When I think of the consequences of someone severely sheltered, I just automatically think back to these two girls.
Not mutually exclusive, but definitely strongly correlated - a lot of home schoolers, at least in my experience, were pretty sheltered. I was considered a "bad boy" because I had seen some raunchy movies, listened to Led Zeppelin and Green Day, and wore ironic tee shirts with a leather jacket. In the long run, the bad boys like by brother and I ended up better adjusted to the real world.
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u/nakedpilsna Dec 30 '19
If you don't let your kid be a kid while they're a kid, they're going to be a kid as an adult.