I was just telling a friend about your world schooling last night. His objection was that children will not have consistent childhood friends. What are your experiences with this?
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This is so interesting, Joy! It seems like that is a major conditioning based fear. No one would want to deprive their children of friends so lets keep them all institutionalised 😆
Friendships on the road are a little harder to maintain, absolutely. However, my daughter made great friends in Vietnam, we came back to live near them and they moved to Australia shortly after we came here 😂 This can happen in suburbia life too 💯
My daughter (14) also made friends in Turkey, who came to see us in Spain and then she travelled solo from Vietnam to Japan to meet up with them (the parents ran a youth tour) 😍
Our younger son met friends in Spain who came to Bulgaria to visit us and then met up again in Phu Quoc and then An Bang. 😊
We also met friends who followed us from Bulgaria to Phu Quoc and An Bang in Vietnam 🙌
Our oldest son (16) made some life long friends in Spain and he will fly solo from Vietnam to Spain for three weeks in July 🤩
There are many opportunities to meet extraordinary families with this lifestyle. It's amazing to be able to have these examples which show how conditioning has created such limiting beliefs for most of society 💯
I also think people forget that the majority of friends we met when we were younger we aren’t connected to anymore. People get stuck on kids having a best friend and while I did growing up, I haven’t talked to them now in probably 30 years so how was that turned into such a huge deal?
Same here.
I think this particular friend still has a lot of friends from childhood so...
Oh yes to this 🙌
I changed so much in my life that I don't share much in common with my childhood friends. I let a lot of friends go when I published my book and started making a different life. Plus a lot of people I met at high school were there wrong crowd and a big reason why I'm thrilled my teens don't want to go to school 🤷♀️😂😆😊🤩
I agree with what you said and think it's amazing. But I think what he said still holds true that no "regular" consistent friends (I guess that means daily interactions).
Really depends on one's preference then.
Yeah that would be true. It has ebbs and flows. Sometimes we are around many other travelling families, other times it's just us. Sometimes other families are around but our kids don't feel like mingling and other times there aren't kids around and they miss their friends. I think overall we have a pretty good balance. 🤩