teen boys at home

How does a mother homeschool two teenage BOYS??

Surely this is the domain of men?

This last 6 months I have been reflecting upon just how much my boys have grown and how much their interests have changed. They definately need me a lot less, but that doesnt mean that I feel they need adults any less.

My boys are at an impass. They want to climb and explore and build and invent. They want to learn new things ....Me? I dont want to climb. My exploring skills certainly dont match theirs, so I am quickly out of my comfort zone. Building??

My boys also need more freedom. In bygone eras boys of 14 were out in the community contributing something valuable. My boys arent even old enough to volunteer at the zoo. (Minimum age 18!) So they are stuck at home doing pretend stuff. Natural learning is supposed to be made up of the stuff of real life. There are only so many things that "have to" be done in our house, and it certainly doesnt take all day, nor is it terribly stimulating. So my boys look after the animals and do their chores, but that doesnt fill the day.

Our society no longer allows the type of freedoms that young boys need in order to learn and grow well. In order to have a safe and litigation free environment we have sterilized our society.
Boys are only allowed to explore within the carefully defined guides of structured (and often expensive) activities.

So as a homeschool mother I have a few choices. Move the country and buy a large piece of land in a small town so the freedoms they need can happen on our own land. Ask my hubby to give up work for the next few years in order to take they boys through this next phase of homeschooling (by the way I couldnt earn even half of what my dh does), or accept that i can only do my best in this difficult situation and even though i know my boys are not getting the best life education, continue this suburban life and hope that more options become available as they grow.

At the moment I think the last option is the only sensible one.