Throughout a majority of my life I've been a volunteer in my community, for which I've even won awards. However, my work left me compelled to write my true life story to further help individuals. I believe that from my life, homeschooling parents can learn a lesson that will help their children cope with what they will soon be undergoing as young adults, much in the same manner as myself as a young woman.

Many children who attend private schools or who are home schooled face harsh reality when they step out alone into the world we take for granted knowing before we’re swept into it. These children don’t know half of the terms commonly used in public schools; these words include ghetto, pimp, and rape. At first you may think these words would serve no purpose in a moral child’s life. You’re right, except what happens if they eventually live in a place where people tell them to stay out of the ghetto and to avoid pimps because they might get raped? They also hardly interact with people they aren’t familiar with. What will happen to them when they have to get jobs and deal with people, sometimes upset people? They will lack the social skills necessary to do the job and not go home crying at night. This is just setting the children up for failure.

You may ask, how do I know this? Why do I care so much about making a difference? That’s because this is the story of my life. I was enrolled in a Catholic school, married young, and because of my husband’s job, was placed in an environment I was completely naive to. I know how it feels and how much of an affect it has on the emotional and physical well being of a young adult. I support a parent wanting a child to be moral, but not hindering them in life for this purpose. Some integration into society must take place in order for a child to enter into society properly. This can happen many ways including sports, jobs/volunteer work, and music programs. However small, it is necessary for a child’s well being and this is the point I make in my book The Torments of the Modest, Secluded Farm Life (ISBN: 1-58721-806-2) and my screenplay Broken Souls. If you are considering such schooling or are just interested, please, read it and consider the ramifications.

Thank you,

Doris Anne Beaulieu

htt://myspace.com/beaulieu1954

doris2@prexar.com