My friend's daughter who was homeschooled from about the fifth grade or so, when she got old enough to be around boys, because her mom wanted to shield her which to me did not prepare her for the world, cannot tell time on a clock if its not a digital and she is not capable of looking up a phone number in a phone book. And she let the kid learn on her own and made her do her own work but how is she prepared for the real world if she cannot look a phone number up or even read basic words her mother says she has trouble with big words and really this kid considers any two syllable word to be a large word, I can't always spell as well as I should mostly due to over thinking a word but I can comprehend them. And this kids boyfriend now lives with them and she says she will never live in a house without her mother and her boyfriend feels the same way and that is upto them as I live with my dad but its because I have to due to finacial reasons but if I wasn't single I would not live with him. And her mother encouraged this boyfriend even though they met online and this kid has only been on a few dates in her entire life as her mother has sheltered her so much. I am glad my dad let us think for ourselves well he made us and if I was unable to look up a phone number at 18 well heck at 10 he would have made me have a hard time sitting down for a while. What is bad is her cousins who are in public school are the same way and none of them can write in cursive and her mother sees history as unimportant so none of them know where they come from.