Each Homeschool High Schooler is Unique, Interview with Sue Sobszak

Each Homeschool High Schooler is Unique, Interview with Sue Sobszak. Each Homeschool High Schooler is Unique, Interview with Sue Sobszak We love those times we can connect with a good friend on the podcast. This week we were able to catch our old friend, Sue Sobszak, to talk about respecting and working with each teen's uniquenesses. We met Sue at our beloved 2:1 Conference (a conference for Christian homeschool bloggers) years ago! Sue was one of those folks that just instantly becomes a friend. She is warm and determined and smiles a lot! Sue and her husband are retired military. As a military family, they have moved around a lot, of course. Because they were moving around so much, Sue's mother thought that homeschooling would be a good option for their kids, so she suggested it to her husband. Then he came to Sue and suggested homeschooling! That is how they got started! Their reasons for starting to homeschool when her oldest was very young because they thought their shy child would do better learning at home. Not only that, but they wanted to educate him in the faith as well as core academics. Then they had a child every two years for ten years, then a sixth child later. That gave them lots of children to educate! So, Sue and her husband homeschooled her kids on four continents and a number of states. Thus, their kids are well-traveled homeschoolers. Now, four of her kids have graduated homeschooling high school- and report that they were glad that they had homeschooled. Sue is a respecter of uniqueness and wants to help each homeschool high schooler develop their interests She has six very different kids with very different interests. Sue sees these differences as gifts, so she works to help teens discover and develop interests. While each of her kids are different, Sue started out homeschooling high school with a more traditional approach for her oldest. That is because she was new to homeschooling a teen and also, she liked the Classical approach and wanted to try it with him. However, he did have some unique things on his transcript such as a government camp that he attended over the summer. BTW- he is in the military after finishing college through ROTC . (For information on what military recruiters are looking for, check out this Homeschool Highschool Podcast episode.) Then when her second son started homeschooling high school, she thought he wanted to go into a wellness field. With that in mind, they were able to get him a job at a wellness center during high school and count it as an internship on the transcript. Afterwards, he gave a presentation to his homeschool co-op about it. Because he had spent time in the field, at the end of the school year, he realized that wellness was not the field for him. (That's one reason we do internships- to weed out poor-fit jobs.) That son is a successful entrepreneur after graduating college in two years! He is happy in his field. (BTW- for tips from another homeschool graduate who is now an