After adopting Kolya at the age of 9, we soon realized this young man thrived with a hammer in his hand. He loved anything to do with creating, fixing, or building.
We also discovered several years ago this same boy loves to fish. Everytime we’d go to the lake to fish, Kolya declared his desire to have a boat.
We knew that wasn’t in our budget, but we encouraged him to work and save toward his dream.
Last summer his dream came true. Someone gave him a boat that had been in a fire. It had to be refurbished so he went to work. He used his own money and worked on his boat all winter out in our shed. Several weeks ago he and Mark took it out for it’s maiden voyage. It floated!
He’s all smiles when he’s working on his boat. It’s this 16-year-old’s thing.
Last week I talked about home being a research lab. Kolya tried soccer but it’s not his thing. He’s taken some music lessons, but he could take them or leave them. Video games….forget it. But building, renovating, or fixing…yep that’s him!
It’s home as a research lab once again doing it’s thing.
What big dream did you have that your parents encouraged? What dream have you encouraged you child to go for?
I love reading your posts about your children's dreams being fulfilled in the home laboratory. I am not sure what each of my kids dreams is yet…maybe 1 or 2 of them, but not all 4. Thanks for inspiring me to really put more effort into finding out!
That's awesome! It's always good to have a handy man around!! 🙂
Jill, I also love your posts. My three boys, now 26, 22 and 18, were always involved in a few activities as I wanted them to have a "well rounded" background of learning. All three of them are really just farm boys at heart. I totally found that home was the best place for learning when I had my youngest son in acrobat lessons. He was very small and very limber so I thought I really had something fun for him. On the way home from lessons one night I said, "Brandon, what is your favorite part of acrobat lessons?" He immediately said, "Going home." Enough said. I didn't enroll him in any type of lessons again.