What possible reasons could there be for keeping your kids at home, and not sending them to school? From your point of view, you don't have to get up so early in the morning, and neither do the kids. You could argue that this also means more study time, but perhaps the kids will not see it the same way. Maybe you are a worrier, especially concerning who your kids interact with at school. Homeschooling gives you complete control over this aspect of their lives. With the best will in the world, in a class with around 30 children, your child will not get as much one on one attention as they probably need. At home, this will not be the case. And you can specifically tailor the lessons around the needs of your child.
Let's examine that last point a little more. I am sure that those of you with more than one child will already have noticed that different children cope with different lessons in different ways. Will any normal school that you have ever come across allow a child to do more of one lesson at the expense of another? In other words, tailor lessons around a child's individual needs? I certainly haven't. And that is definitely a mayor benefit of homeschooling children.
One potential drawback of homeschooling is the fact that you are effectively on your own. Well, is that necessarily the case? More and more people take to schooling their children from home, and most cities will have details of the parents who do home school. Furthermore, many of these people collaborate so that you have a peer group to discuss matters with, and for your children to socialise with. Your immediate family often find some time to spare to help you as well, so to think you will be on your own if you home school would be a misnomer.
Some children do not cope well with competition, Whilst this is something all children need to get to grips with, homeschooling allows you to introduce competition as and when the child is ready, in a manner that is most appropriate. There is nothing to stop you deviating from accepted learning methods either, finding new imaginative and fun ways to get lessons across to your child.
There is no doubt that whilst the current schooling system does it's best, it falls down in many areas. A lot of the failures are to do with the generalisations that are applied to children, often by the necessity of the class sizes. Homeschooling allows you to address these generalisations and create a learning environment specifically for your child and your child alone.
Homeschooling is the one of the best ways to interact with your own child. If you are able to do it, you will have the opportunity to help your child develop, that is not available to millions of other parents. At the end of the day, there is no one better placed to understand and teach your child than you.
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