Jonathan's Graduation

We celebrated Jonathan's Graduation from Highschool this June. It seems like a real milestone in our homeschooling adventure to have half of our children now out of school and on to adulthood. 

 We are pretty proud of Jonathan. He is kind and respectful, a hard worker and very talented. He is very focused and goal oriented. He loves the Lord and seeks to serve Him. He is/has been a valuable employee at the places he has worked. He has started his own business and is making good progress in that. I am really looking forward to seeing what God does in his life!

  Jonathan really taught Ken and I to change our thinking and methods a little in the way we did homeschooling. Both Ken and I enjoyed workbooks and schoolwork and so we did quite a lot of that in the beginning of our schooling days. Mara seemed to love it too and thrive with that sort of system. But Jonathan who had amazed us at a young age with his grasp of mathematics concepts (done orally at the dinner table) seemed to lose all interest in math when presented with a workbook. We did still make it through many years of mathbooks and he learned but honestly I kind of wish I would have tried more methods way back then to learn how to teach him in a way that he really enjoyed. We did make adjustments as the years went by as to what was really working for him and what wasn't. 

   We found out with Jonathan that when he was super interested about a subject he would read and learn about it like crazy with no pressure from us. He went through the stage of loving airplanes (reading about them, making tons of model airplanes and enjoying flying), He was very involved in Robotics for a while, He was and is quite good at building things , learned how to fly drones and  he really enjoyed learning about Physics. 

The most recent and enduring passion for Jonathan has been videography. He has worked hard to earn money to buy all the equipment needed (which has been quite extensive), he has sought advice from others, learned all he could for free and then also paid for a course to learn a lot more. He also has practiced his skills over and over. He decided to turn this passion into a business and so started Jonathan Cobb Productions. Running a business meant he had to learn another set of skills and we have enjoyed watching Jonathan tackle that with passion as well. He has learned how to design and run a website, write up contracts, hire assistants, make business calls, hold a consultation, professionally do the job and much more. Jonathan isn't interested in college because he doesn't want to be slowed down in that way. 😉

To Celebrate Jonathan's graduation we had an open house. We tried to make it so people could space out if they wanted too but found that they didn't always want to. 

It was fun to gather with friends and family and celebrate Jonathan's achievement.

We didn't have a big ceremony like we did with Mara (Jonathan didn't really want it) but we still presented him with a diploma and said a few things.

It was a fun day!