Are you considering homeschooling your children? Here are just some of the many benefits you and your children can gain from it.
First of all, you do not have to wake the children up at 6:30 or earlier each morning to send them to school. A child that has had enough sleep will be more receptive to learning instead of sleeping through classes.
Home school gives more control of the influences you want your children to receive. Your child's growth and development are removed from the realm of the unknown. You can decide what your child should learn.
Making a curriculum to meet the needs and interests of the child is one of the most obvious advantages of school at home. Each child is different with different interests and skills. Teaching you little ones about things they are interested in will greatly increase the learning and also making school an enjoyable experience.
Personal attention is another outstanding advantage of homeschooling. For example, if a child needs more time to learn math, then they can reduce the time of their English lessons to meet this need. Also you have a teacher-student ratio of 1 to 1 instead of in a classroom where the teacher is not able to dedicate much time per student.
There is no set time for learning subjects. This means that a child has the advantage of assigning more hours to the subject that seems more difficult, without any additional pressure. The amount of time to learn each subject will depend on the abilities and interests of the child.
The education of the child becomes an extension of family activity. Parents are involved in every step of the learning process.
Study trips and experiments become family activities. Thus the child receives more quality time with his parents. The child is also free from all kinds of negative pressure from his peers when making choices, making decisions and asking questions. For some children, the teasing of their classmates does not matter to them, but for the majority it does, which limits the freedom of expression and experimentation.
Competition against others is limited in the home school environment. The child does not have to demonstrate his capacity in relation to other children. Your confidence remains intact. Since parents have a better understanding of their children, they can plan the learning program to arouse the interest of the child.
It is also possible to interject difficult tasks with fun activities. A difficult hour of algebra can be followed by a trip to the nearest museum. Learning is fun.
Parents can also adapt the curriculum that meets each child's learning style. Some children learn by reading, while others have to write and even more, others have to see objects in action.
Finally there are many parents who has been disillusioned by the traditional schooling system believing that their children receive too much pressure or disagrees with the disciplines and ethics of schools.
Many also reject the educational philosophy of grouping children according to their age, for what is called youth culture because each child is very different, matures at different rates, learns in different ways and so on.
Some parents have unhappy memories of their own school experience which motivates them to opt for homeschooling when it is time for their children to start school.
Home school is one of the best ways to teach a child to develop his or her capacity and interest in their education. After all, no one can understand or appreciate your children more than you.
Do you homeschool or plan to homeschool your children? Have any experiences with homeschooling? Let me know in the comments below!
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Now the cons: (2 main disadvantages)
I love the ideas here and believe the school system is often broken. The issue I struggle with is the sacrifice of my own career to take the time out required.
school also is a place where children meets together, find a friends,communicate. What about the social side?
We homeschooled our now adult children. This was the most common default question by far.
I'll answer you question with a question.
Who is more socially adjusted?
A child who is compelled to sit in rows for 6-8 hours per day only with other children of the same age and sometimes gender?
A child who interacts with all ages in many different environments with a wide variety of people? This is easy with homeschooling and next to impossible with institutional school systems.
Actually im not against homeschooling, but i think it for the most part deprives children of being surrounded by a large number of peers
But is it a bad thing to have less of your peers surrounding you rather than a more diverse group of people? Wouldn't this more closely mimic actual society where one will work, interact, and engage with others?
I have never worked, shopped, played or otherwise existed in any scenario that I can rememeber where nearly everyone around me was no more than a year or two my junior or senior. In actual life this hardly ever happens.
I also homeschool my children.
Many times, I find that when my wife and I are out at dinner events with the kids, my children are able to keep up with the conversation and stay engaged; my friend's children often are anti-social and stay on their phone most of the time.
Aside from that, we learn things up and above the public curriculum like investing and much more that will continue to serve them through their lives.
Thank you for this great article that helps promote parents growing their childrens minds far beyond public education!
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I think this is a superb article. If i could have changed i would have homeschooled my children.
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Why homeschooling is better for your kids....amazing nature
I agree, every child has his own talent. We as parents should be able to give way for our children to succeed in the future.
So we have to decide, what kind of education is right for our child
absolutely
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I wish I had been homeschooled.
i actually am super happy i went to private school growing up. but if life had been any different, homeschool would have been superb for me, too.
Homeschooling is the best teach , personally i like homeschooling teaching . very nice for your sharing , thank you very much. i want carry on you life , best of luck
Thanks a lot
I lean more towards unschooling/self directed learning, but anything away from the government indoctrination centers is a step in the right direction. We unschool our 2 children (twins) and it's amazing to watch how each of them is drawn to different activities, and different interests. In a structured "school" setting, these interests would not be allowed to be explored.
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https://steemit.com/unschooling/@abolitionistjay/why-we-unschool
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An awesome post @emancipatedhuman. My son is coming up on the first anniversary of the day he was born and it is my intention to homeschool or uschool him with the help of the rest of my family and friends from my local community though the learning has already begun and as you say never stops. It's really good that steemit has so many like minded community members and information regarding this and other related subjects and AI look forward to making the most of all of the knowledge of my steemit friends when I am in need of help, advice or guidance. :)
A great article and advert for home schooling. Thanks a lot.
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I'm going to respectfully disagree with your post slightly. As someone who was homeschooled I really think I missed out on some things. Of course one person's experience being homeschooled isn't a representative sample so my opinion doesn't reflect you or anyone else's teaching style.
I came out of high(home) school knowing much less about math or science than my peers which I've since tried to fix by attending community college courses. Additionally I think I would have benefitted from a broader range of social interactions that were not as readily available as if I went to a traditional school.
Overall I agree with the points you've made but there is an element of wariness every parent should consider when homeschooling. It is a full-time job and the only person who stands to lose or gain based on how well you do is your child.
great perspective for sure!
Thanks for posting this!
thank you for reading!
yes I agree, because we are easier to control it
This is a great article! We homeschooled one of our kids when we move to a state where their school age is 5 years old and she had already started school at the age of 4 years. At first she enjoyed it and did all her school work but later didn't enjoy it as much as she complained about going back to school and her friends, we noticed she enjoyed riding on school bus and being at school more.
Personally, I enjoyed homeschooling,I saw the difference and what she was able to do. She was ahead of her class mates when she went back to school.
being surrounded by friends makes school tolerable.
Awesome!
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I'm beyond thankful my mom decided to homeschool me for 1st grade. My mom thought it was rediculous to watch a kid go up to the chalkboard and write one letter. I remember building with blocks and other toys as a kid. Go figure why I'm significantly better in math than my peers in college...
heck yeah! i am glad you had a great experience.
This is a super awesome post and i hope i reach a lot of people out there, self educate your kids if you are educated is a great idea because teacher's are exhausted dealing with a hole class room of kid where the fittest of the fittest survive
We homeschooled both of our children.
One of the best parts about it was we could take more time on the tougher subjects and blow through the areas they were more proficient in.
You can teach them reasoning critical thinking and independence. Things rarely even glossed over in traditional institutions of "learning." If one can do those three things there are hardly any subjects that cannot be learned. Parents who are intimidated by the more advanced science and math subjects can always seek out tutors or others more proficient than themselves . (Something that publicly schooled students also do I might add.)
Also it's a plus that I didn't have my children in a prussian style indoctrination day camp.
love it!
Thank for your opinion . =) I like your post
I was homeschooled for two years and those were the best two years of my compulsory education.
Our parents were very conscious so even without school, we were still very involved in groups of other kids through after-school activities.
I am also aware that homeschooling is not for everyone. Some children need more strict rules and do not take well when they are excluded from the collective by being different.
When I told someone that me and one more sibling were homeschooled, the typical follow-up question would be: Why? Was there something... wrong with you so you were not able to attend normal school?
I think that homeschooling is the best, it was for me at least, but it still carries stigma that is not handled well by the majority.
We are thinking doing the same @emancipatedhuman our educational system is getting worse and worse, at least in Panama. @emancipatedhuman Great article. ;)
I have a dream to homeschool my children. Thanks you for giving hope
Thank you for this educative post , am mukasa edward from uganda, am a teacher , but as teacher we suffer from such parents who have absconded their roles to practice home schooling, since the first school in a child is home and their parents to master core values before children socialize with others at school , so home school is more far better in the academic development of a child , this is awesome article.
I was just wondering how homeschooling would work for subjects parents aren't super knowledgeable on. For example, high-school level math and science should be an ok fit for parents to teach if they looked at the curriculum beforehand, but how would they teach about art or music if they never had previous experiences? Homeschooling could be a good fit for most subjects but some may be out of reach.