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[Sapper Woody]

My daughter, 19 year old 2nd year college student, would never be able to defend her faith against the opposition she meets in a State University in the way she does not without her experiences of growing up and maturing within public schools. Obviously, she would she be equipped to deal with “these types of people” if she had only read of them in text books and had not prior experiences of debating them.

I was homeschooled. And, while not on purpose, I was pretty sheltered as a teenager. I lived out in the middle of nowhere. My job was with a contractor in the church, so at work I saw the same 3 people all the time. My church was small, so I only had a couple friends my age that I saw on youth activities and on Sundays/Wednesdays.

I am now in the military, and feel more than adequately equipped to defend my faith against the opposition I receive constantly.

your evidence of the facts could be compared to the reasoning that if one wanted to be a fighter he could read about it in a book and then simply just use his "imagination" once he stepped into the real ring.

And your reasoning could be compared to throwing an inexperienced fighter into the ring against multiple opponents and telling him to learn to fight.

The point is, people are arguing extremes. There is a middle ground. And it all has to do with your involvement as a parent. Involved parents with good, strong relationships with their kids turn out good kids (there are exceptions, of course), and no involvement throws the kids to the wolves, leaving them to turn out how they will.

 

[Don]

Taking your logic to its ultimate conclusion, it amounts to a strawman.

For it to be a strawman, I would have had to distort and misrepresent your position. Since I quoted your own words--that homeschoolers don't have the opportunity and experience to be able to deal with large numbers of people--the burden is now on you to explain how I distorted and/or misrepresented your position.

Anybody can use those types of defensive strategies by looking them up and then naming a few successful homeschool children, although a few on your list would be questionable in their social abilities which rather discounts your point, and none of your continued strawman address the specific point I was making.

Again, I quoted your statement; and then I provided real-life examples of homeschoolers who went on to successfully interact with large groups of people. Attempting to discount them personally in no way negates their achievements that contradict your statement.

Not specific to all areas would she have all things the same, unless your a determinist which I'm not.

My daughter, 19 year old 2nd year college student, would never be able to defend her faith against the opposition she meets in a State University in the way she does not without her experiences of growing up and maturing within public schools. Obviously, she would she be equipped to deal with “these types of people” if she had only read of them in text books and had not prior experiences of debating them.

"Never?" You raised her, and you prepared her for what she faced in high school, and she was successful; are you saying that if you had homeschooled her instead, no matter how much preparation you had provided, she would not be successful at defending her faith in college?

Right after you point out to me what milby means about by “his” kids were raised around people that love them.

I believe he/she meant that they were raised around parents, siblings, relatives, neighbors, church members, etc. that loved them. Now, how are you defining "sheltered"?

 

[Don]

. . .The point is, people are arguing extremes. There is a middle ground. And it all has to do with your involvement as a parent. Involved parents with good, strong relationships with their kids turn out good kids (there are exceptions, of course), and no involvement throws the kids to the wolves, leaving them to turn out how they will.

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