"Are you planning to homeschool them through high school?" is a common question asked of homeschoolers.

That can be a pretty daunting question especially in the early years when you are just starting out.

The encouraging part, just like most other things, is the more you do something the more encouraged you are to continue.

There is a myth that once children enter high school that their learning style has to change to something more rigorous and more time spent with their noses in text books or behind a screen.

The reality is that they need to experience life, learn skills, interact with people of all ages, develop empathy, grit, hard work and responsibility.

What are the things that you wish that you knew how to do as an adult?

Some of us wish that we were better at caring for our homes, preparing and planning meals, balancing a checkbook, filing taxes, and some of us wish that we had learned to play a musical instrument or taken voice lessons or pursued art skills growing up. Homeschooling high schoolers gives us and them the opportunity to not only learn life skills that will help them in the day to day of adult life but offers the opportunity to invest in their own personal interests and to encourage them to that end.

As a part of the journey through life the teenage years can be a confusing and emotional time where everything and everyone can seem to be changing daily.

Inspiring books for teens can lend a place of adventure and of hope. When the world around them seems to be shouting all of the latest trends, telling them who they should be, and what they should look like, inspiring living books can bring stability and hope from the people that have come before them.