I also wrote what's below, and its parent page is linked.
I didn’t know that our relationships could stay so good even when they were teenagers.
My original expectation was that when they were teens they would be frustrated and rebellious and wild, because I thought that was hormonally inevitable.
A side benefit of having been partners rather than adversaries was that the “normal teen behavior” turned out not to have been “natural,” and in contrast to what I was seeing in unschooled teens, it started to look like very sensible reactions to a barrage of arbitrary rules and limitations. The communications and trust continued to build within our family, rather than to erode over the years.
SandraDodd.com/unexpectedarticle
photo by Sandra Dodd
of Marty, Holly and Kirby
when they were still at home
