My wife and I have been home schooling our children for the last 5 years. When I tell people we home school, many are interested in knowing what we have found to be the benefits of homeschooling compared to sending our kids to school outside the home. Here I believe are four clear advantages of homeshooling.
First, homeschooling gives you more control over the influences your child will face. You no longer have to be anxious about all the negative influences your children could face in school or whether your child will receive what is needed for them to grow and development properly. You alone can decide what your child needs to learn.
Being able to give individual attention to your kids is another great benefit of homeschooling. It is amazing how quickly your children will learn something when your able to give them individual attention. Parents can also put together a curriculum that fits the needs and interests of your child and that fits their own individual learning style.
Another great benefit is that homeschooling allows parents to take control over the morals and values being taught to their child. For the Christian, for example, parents have the flexibility to incorporate the teachings of the Bible into the child’s curriculum. Therefore, there is no confusion in the child’s mind because there is no difference between what is being taught at school and at home.
Finally, homeshooling is a great way to keep your family close. We have seen this clearly in the relationship between our two girls, (10 and 7 years old). Because they are together more they have become much closer then they would have if they were separated all day in school. The schooling of the child also becomes an extended family activity. Parents get involved in every step of the learning process. Therefore, the child receives more quality time with both his parents and other siblings.
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I am thinking about Homeschooling, what are the benefits?I also need to find out what is involved financially speaking and how do i teach something that i dont know myself, is there a website that has all this info?
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Chris has been happily married to his wife of 14 years and currently lives and works in Northern Virgina. Chris and his wife currently homeschool their three childen ages 10, 7 and 4.
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Research shows that homeschoolers do well on all the standardized testing, socialization, etc. http://www.nheri.org/content/view/176/53/
I think one huge advantage of homeschooling is that you can tailor the curriculum to the interests of the child: when you are in the school system you often are boring a child because out of 30 children at least some are going to be bored by a topic or have already learned a topic. You can avoid that in homeschooling.
I do think though, obviously, as you mentioned, that homeschooling is wonderful for special needs children. You didn't mention but homeschooling is also great for gifted children who are easily bored by public school. My brother and I are both gifted and were bored through all of our schooling, both private and public, until I hit grad school, where I finally met others who were really enjoying the learning process as well. I think schooling is kind of aimed towards teaching that theoretical "average" child of which there really are so few. Most children, really, may have some deficits and/or gifted areas and so really will benefit from homeschooling in my opinion.
Of course, the reality is not every parent may have the personality, desire, financial situation, or willingness to homeschool so homeschool may not be an option for that reason. And then public and private schools are other options to be considered in that case.