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This is not to say that we did not intervene in disputes and problems; we \ndid. However, we didn’t constantly try to send them apart from each other, \nso we would not have the headache of them being together. Instead, we kept \nthem together in school; we took them to activities together; we grouped \nthem together in subjects whenever possible; we spent a lot of time \ntogether; and we taught them how to work through difficulties with each \nother and with other people.<\/p>\n
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The siblings-in-homeschooling relationship is one that you can get nowhere \nelse. Home is where a person is usually himself or herself. While the child \nwould not treat a friend in a certain way, he or she might be tempted to \ntreat a sibling in that way. Our children having been together all these \nyears has given them the opportunity to learn to compromise. They learned \nhow to put others first. They learned early on that they are going to be \ntogether every day for many years \u2013 as my now- thirty-two year old son once \nsaid about this subject, “I figured I better work it out and get along with \nthem and like them because I was pretty much stuck with them all the time. ” \nHe says that he decided at a young age that he would rather have fun all the \ntime then to always be at war with his siblings. And so he learned to work \nthings out.<\/p>\n
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Siblings are our children’s first friends and hopefully siblings are their \nlast friends. That is, hopefully, they will be friends for a lifetime. \nHomeschooling affords them the opportunity to share life with these \n“friends” every day all day long. I am so grateful that my kids have been \ntogether every day for many years.<\/p>\n
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I already mentioned in an earlier homeschool benefit post about being able to be with our children all the time. I will always cherish the eighteen years that I have had with each of my children all day long\u2026 well sixteen years until they started working day jobs and going to college, etc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,628,643,281],"tags":[572,305],"yoast_head":"\n
Homeschool Benefit #4: Siblings Get to Be Together Every Day - Character Ink<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n