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I have 3 sons. When they kids, they were mostly homeschooled. I tried to supplement their education in ways that would be interesting to their individual tastes and myself with an eye to their future.

My oldest son is not the kind of person to sit still at a desk staring a computer screen all day, so when he was in high school I got him involved in Fire Explorers through a friend who was fire chief in a nearby city. He ended up becoming an EMT.

My middle son had a strong interest in soccer, so I signed him up for a fairly intense twice a week soccer academy. Within a few months he got really good, much better than the kids he was playing with in the rec league. He had to stop because he realized he wasn’t going to be able to go pro and his academics were starting to take up a lot more of his time. Competitive sports taught him the value of having a strong work ethic. He earned his high school diploma and his AA degree at the same time and a partial scholarship to UCF. He works as an intern software dev at Lockheed Martin and will graduate with a Computer Engineering degree later this year.

My youngest really loves video games. I tried to get him into software dev by taking him to a coding camp one summer where he learned a little bit of Ruby. I also enrolled him in the local technical high school to learn web development.

All of them are good musicians. I provided them with whatever instruments they might want to play. I taught them the concepts behind jazz music theory. They have a lot of experience performing live music in front of audiences at church.