Firstly lets try to recognize the reasons we would want Anna and Angelo to learn at home versus going to public schools. Lets start with some of the superficial reasons, first one being you do not have to get up at 6:00 am in the morning and get them dressed for school, pack the lunches, give them all your normal instructions and wait for them to get home hoping everything went well that day at 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. You are the only one that will make the choices as to what you think your child needs to learn or do and will no longer be something that you do not have a lot of visibility to. 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.
The average ratio of children to students in most schools is approx one teacher to twenty students. One on one attention is one other benefit of homeschooling that your child will recieve when homeschooling. 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. Also some of the most fun part of homeschooling would be the experiments and the great field trips that you will share with your child, which also means that you will be spending a lot more quality time with your children, which also means that the family will become 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.
One thing you must understand about your children is the fact that the learning style is different from child to child as some children learn very well by writing and others might learn quicker by reading and still others are visual children and need to see objects in order to learn faster. 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.
In the end there are many many parents today that are very unhappy with our public schools are being run. 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. Other public school issues that are concerning parents today are the discipline and ehtics that are being taught in system. 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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