Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. You know, in a lot of ways,

the high school years can be just a continuation of what you've been doing all along. But in other ways,

they're different. And we want to talk about that today with my friend and co-worker, Laura Pitney.

Hi. You have two high schoolers now, right?

Okay, and I've had four.

They're all out of the high school years now, but we've walked through this before.

It seems like there's an overarching transition that needs to happen during those high school years.

And we were discussing it earlier.

Explain what that overarching transition is.

I think that for me, the goal has been to help them become young adults.

And there's the school lessons that are a component of that.

Their hearts are a component of that.

Their work ethics are a component of that.

So all these things are kind of the recipe being mixed together

to help them mature into those young adults that we hope they'll be.

I guess they will be no matter what.

So for me in this season, it has really been helping them to take ownership of their responsibilities, their choices, their schoolwork.

I am trying to step away from them being dependent on me and help them to become truly independent

with me being alongside them as a counselor and, you know,

I'm not leaving them, coach.

Yeah. But there's just this ownership that I desire for them to take over their life as a

whole.

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