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Originally posted by calnorak
reply to post by NoRegretsEver
That is awesome. I totally would do something like that if I didn't have a child.
Originally posted by Unity_99
reply to post by jiggerj
I only wish I could have had my kids raised on a self sufficient family farm, with skills, art, creativity, green housing and a big strawberry patch, and family pets.
I would have had company too, would have turned it into an eco farm even if we had to put small cabins up and use the larger house as a joint one, ie commercial kitchen, to run businesses, extra storage and laundry and for company, then it doesnt take as much room, smaller 800 square foot cottages, so it fits under the building codes, and you could be quite free. Would have had family and friends there.
Kids don't need the urban jungle.edit on 25-3-2012 by Unity_99 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by Unity_99
reply to post by jiggerj
I only wish I could have had my kids raised on a self sufficient family farm, with skills, art, creativity, green housing and a big strawberry patch, and family pets.
I would have had company too, would have turned it into an eco farm even if we had to put small cabins up and use the larger house as a joint one, ie commercial kitchen, to run businesses, extra storage and laundry and for company, then it doesnt take as much room, smaller 800 square foot cottages, so it fits under the building codes, and you could be quite free. Would have had family and friends there.
Kids don't need the urban jungle.edit on 25-3-2012 by Unity_99 because: (no reason given)
Granted this would be damn close to paradise, but it's not the reality we live in. What happens when these sheltered kids grow up? Can they then buy a farm of their own? With what money? They would need to go to college, and without having the experience of the urban jungle these kids would be eaten alive by the other kids. Once out of college they wouldn't know how to compete in the cutthroat business world. Can't compete = can't earn enough money to buy that farm.
Even more to the point, what we need now more than ever is scientists, not survivalists. With the countless possibilities for natural disasters (weakening magnetic poles, deadly diseases, I don't feel like listing them all), I just don't see raising children 'off the grid' as being conducive to higher learning.
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by calnorak
reply to post by NoRegretsEver
That is awesome. I totally would do something like that if I didn't have a child.
That's my only concern with the OP. It's one thing to be brought up in society and then decide to become a hermit of sorts. It's quite another to condemn your kids to a life where they won't slowly gain the social skills needed to survive in this world. This means the OP is taking away from her kids the choice to return to the grid, forcing them to remain, in a sense, social outcasts, or at least making it a thousand times harder for them to return to the grid. Pity she couldn't have waited until her kids grew up so she could have made the decision for herself and not her kids.