No regrets here.
We traveled and worked all over the US with 3 daughters until they got to High School. They enjoyed the adventure of new places and new faces considerably.

My daughters are grown and 2 have there own families. They all finished school and have are well balanced. They still enjoy talking and bragging to there friends about all the great places they have been to and things they have seen and done.

I believe the child will do just fine if the parents do.

I havn't met any welder families to describe, but for most of a 12 year period I lived aboard and cruised on My sailboat. I met plenty of families that homeschoold the kids, and for most of them it worked well. The major exceptions were parents with ADD trying to homeschool kids with ADD. Those kids were generally uncooperative as schooling takes about 4-5 hours per day and they had attention spans in minutes, and the parents didn't have the attention span or fortitude to MAKE it work. In the cruising community the childern got allong well with each other over a pretty great age group and with adults as well.

Children are wonderfully adaptable.  There is a lot to be learned in traveling.  They will make friends, probably with a lot more adults than they would in a regular school situation but I don't think thats a bad thing.  My opinion now but I don't believe a class of same age children is a very natural situation anyway, the groups children form spontaneously vary much more in age.  It takes a long time to grow an adult anyway, if you feel things aren't going well you can change strategy then.  They say you learn half of everything you will ever know by the time you start kindergarten so you're half done allready.

Good luck
Bill

I have been doing this for 20 plus years. My wife and I have been married for going on 18. One thing we have ALWAYS done is talk. Every night. 30 to 45 minutes. How many people living in the same house talk that much. She came as a package deal with 2 kids. She had a good job with the GOV. when we got married. We spent as much time together as we could. As a minimum she traveled every 3 weeks to where I was. During the summer she would spend 2-3 weeks with me and usually my son would stay the rest until school would start. We kid each other if we can live together. But she trust me and I trust her. She keeps the bills paid and I send the checks home. Due to her part, we raised 2 kids, paid for 2 houses and have set enough aside for a good retirement. But we both believe the secret to our success is talking. I know guys who will call home every 2 weeks. They usually have a road wife and 2-3 ex-wives back home.
If you are wanting to travel, I would recommend getting a nice travel trailer and becoming a gypsy. Moving around is tougher on you than the kids. When the youngsters get close to high school, get them where you want to call home. They need to do the high school thing in one place. If you and hubby cannot make it with him on the road and you at home, one of you better work on the " You need a buggy" thing or you will get to know a divorce lawyer.
My wife and I think this is fun. She was raised in a cotton field in west Texas and had never been anywhere in her life. After 18 years, she cannot say that. What is kinda strange, neither of the kids likes to travel! But the wife is like our old poodle. Say go and her tail starts waggin.
BABRT's

My wife and 6 month old boy travel with me when I can't be home for a week or more. We don't have to worry about school yet, but I think it would be more detrimental to a kid if his papa were always gone, than having to be homeschooled.  My father and I never got to know each other until late in life, when I had my own family. Life is good now, but I hated his guts for years and years, because he was always gone.......

My wife and son (2 years old) travel with me for any contract over 4 weeks. I've been around the world several times, and parts of L.A. (lower Alabama).
Communications and honesty therein are key. Even the small silly things, the little white lies most tell, we do not. transparency is the word I was looking for.
There comes a time with any couple that have been less than honest in all things with each other that they find themselves on different paths, some make
it back to each other, some do not, the later being the ones who end up in divorce. I think if you really love each other and stick to the transparency theory,
there isn't anything any given couple could not surmount except death itself.
We home school and plan to continue until he's 13. After that we'll settle to one place, so that he can get the social value. It's a give and take thing.

For what it's worth, thats my opinion and experience.
Regards,
Gerald

Your husband is lucky he gets to come home on the weekends! lol I just spent three months away last winter. but then I had two months off in the spring to catch up around the house which is usually the case with pipeliners, we don't work 12 months of the year. I have three kids 9,4,10months and they all are fine so far. We have lived in Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, and Alberta and my oldest child does fine at any school. Most importantly your husband has to stay away from the losers on the line there are alot of crack heads and hardcore alcoholics in this type of work. stay clean! later

My huband is also a welder a rig welder at that...his dad was a welder for years his brother as well...I guess you can say it runs in the family! My husband travelled although our four children only travelled once that was to Colorado & Nebraska...........He said he did not want to put our children through it.....he would get settled in a school then they would move again. I would say if he travels go with him if not he needs to get a job in the local area. I have to say my husband works for his money unlike these men that work in a air comditioned office they would know nothing about hard labor. I have also taught my children to appreciate the fact that there dad does work hard for his hard earned money! My son is wanting to be a welder as well but my husband does not want teach him.........maybe only for the fact that he will know not to make a living though. A man being away from his family is just more of a way for the devil to tempt him....so whatever you decide for it is ultimately your decision just know the construction world is not a pretty place for everyone. My husband does not drink but has tried to be pursuaded many times to do things he ought not to do! To a welder's wife from a welder's wife speaking from experience!

Just a short reply: Every kid with a parent in the military goes through this, because the military doesn't like one person being station in the same place for too long.

There are lots of army brats out there!

hay , he's a "pipeliner" , and thats what pipeliners do........

Why don't you look into home schooling your child. I know alot of people that do and most graduate from HS with some college credits. This will allow your child to progress at his/her on pace. That way your family can stay together and you can set up your child to go online for some classes.