Helping your Children Pursue their Career Goals.

Homeschooling is one excellent way to be able to help your child learn about a career they are interested in.  From a very young age, our oldest has wanted to work at a wildlife refuge or be a missionary in an animal filled area…Think Amazon here.

Though we are not able to take him to the Amazon, we do try to help him learn lots about his interest in this area.

We attend many outings at the local Wildlife Refuge.  We also do lots of nature study, and he has TONS of books and other resources about animals.  He is the reason I have Nature Study Tuesday on my blog.   We have also allowed him to be active in the acute care of our animals.  From cattle and horses to cats and dogs.  When they need shots, or other medical treatment, he is out there with us.  Just this past Saturday, he was walking our sick horse.  At the time, we feared colic, though we are fairly sure that is not the case now, but he was there helping us out. 

We also allow him to keep and observe different animals for a time.  We have had a baby barn swallow, who our cat caught and we rescued, baby squirrels, who were blown out of a tree, spiders, snakes, lizards, bunnies, frogs, toads, stink bugs, fish, and various other critters. 

His interest has seemed to float around our family and attach it self to each of  us in it’s own way.   We all now agree that opossums are cute.  We have one that will eat out of your hand living in our garage.  We have a spider that has wintered with us named Beauty.  Yeah, I know a bit twisted it is a spider. lol 

Many friends and relatives will call us to come identify different animals.  We have received calls to relocate snakes too. lol  Though, we won’t mess with suspicious snakes, or we don’t mean too lol. 

How have you helped your children pursue their career goals?