Lets take a look at some of the points as to why we would like to have David and Karen learn from home rather than at a public school. Lets start off with some of the low hanging fruit or lower benefits but still very nice benefits, for instance you do not have to pack a lunch anymore for your child, you do not have to go into your childs room at six thirty in the morning and try to get them motivated to get dressed and get ready for school, you do not have to read off all the normal things you tell your child before you send them off to school.
Moving on to some of the more important benefits of homeschooling your children. Things that could possibly happen at a public school that would affect your children are a thing of the past when you choose homeschooling. One of the most important reasons in my mind is the fact that you now have total authority of the development of your children. With this the parents are the only people that will be making decisions on what you believe your child needs to be taught or what you want your child to do, this becomes something where you have much more visibility. Being able to decide the homeschool curriculum that best fits your childrens learning needs and/or the interests of the child is probably one of the best benefits of homeschooling.
Today there is approx 20 children to 1 teacher in the class, this is a very high ratio when you compare to homeschooling. So one of the other benefits of homeschooling is the one on one attention that your child will recieve. Ok, Karen needs more work in math, all you have to do is add more time to math and maybe less time in english or whatever you choose as there is not any set class times for teaching a subject like there is in most of your public schools. What this does is take the pressure off of the child because you are able to just let your child put more hours into certain subjects that he/she might need more help with. Of course the time requirement to learn any subject will totally depend on the individual child.
What happens next is a wonderful thing, the learning of your children now becomes kind of a total family activity where the family becomes involved in just about all steps of the learning curriculum. Another thing that you will really love about homeschooling your child is you get to take them on field trips where you will both learn and have a wonderful time, and you will be doing experiments with them, which can be very interesting, but all then this also equals you are spending much more “quality time” with you child and i believe that this also brings a family much closer.
Your child not having to put up with the negative peer pressure within the public school systems is one of the largest benefits of homeschooling. Planning your childs learning sessions is very key when you need to plan so that you are able to keep the child interested and moving forward, this is something that you are able to do better than any teacher in public schools possibly could because you know your child better than anyone, you might consider mixing in something that your child enjoys along with the childs difficult schooling activities. One of my most favorite things to do with my children every once in a while is afeter a couple of hours on one of the tougher subjects take them on a field trip to place that they could learn about with in the subjects they are studying and with this the child is having a lot of fun but is also learning.
Lets be very clear about one thing and that is that the way a child learns or what i call a childs learning style can be at two ends of a spectrum, for instance some children learn quite well by reading, where another child might do well writing, and there are those visual kids who like to see it in action, so they need to see an object. Another benefit of homeschooling that a lot of people like is you also get to teach your children what you believe both moraly and religously and the child will not be confused as some get in public schools because with you homeschooling your child there is no difference between what you are teaching your child and what is also being practiced in your home.
Before i end this article i would like to say that more and more parents today are becoming dis-satisfied with our public school programs. When it come to public schools most people are on one of two sides, some believe that the child is not getting enough of an education, and the other side which is those that believe the child is getting overworked in scool. One other concern that parents have when it comes to what is being taught in public schools is ethics & discipline. I believe that homeschooling in the enviroment that we all live in today is the very best way to educate your child and prepare them for life, but this task that you are taking on requires comittment by both you and your child, but most importantl you must understand the actual time that you are going to have to put into your childs eduction homeschooling them, because it takes a lot of time, if you do not have the time that it requires to benefit your childs homescooling education, you should not attempt to as this only fails.
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