As you may know, there are many differences between traditional schooling and homeschooling. Instead of looking at these differences, many parents ignore them, and jump right into homeschooling headfirst. For the following reasons, homeschooling should be regarded in a completely different way than public school education.
Kids they go to public schools have to stay on the campus, something that many parents do not appreciate or like. If you want to take your kids to the beach or a national park, you can't take them out of school if they are enrolled. When you home school your kids, you are free to plan your schedule any way you want. Your trip could consist of going to Disneyland or flying to Hawaii and it wouldn't matter. Traveling does not have to be limited to social visits, it can be trips to help expand their consciousness and awareness. In fact, you can travel during the off-season's and save a ton of money on your trips because of this.
In regard to families, homeschooling allows them to remain close together. In the modern world, many parents and kids drift away from each other when children reach school age. Your influence over your children will begin to wane at this point. Homeschooling provides you with the opportunity to get close to your children once again. Of course, this has it's challenging aspects as well. Being a teacher, you have to know subject material which can be tough if you don't remember it. Overall, homeschooling is more popular than sending your kids to school specifically in regard to spending more time with them.
There's one aspect of home schooling that can be considered either a benefit or a drawback, depending on how you look at it. It's actually both. Conforming to institutional rules is a lesson that homeschooled children will definitely miss, an important aspect of growing up to say the least. Several rules that your child will never have to abide by, unless you enforce them yourself, include dress code and punctuality. Creativity and an independent spirit may develop at home, something that may be repressed in the public schools; however your children may also suffer, being unable to follow the rules of an institution.
Even though home schooling is a lot more widespread now than even a few years ago, it's still considered unusual by most people. There are a few things to consider such as social skills that you're child may lack, and other things that you need to provide for to make the experience beneficial. Just understand that you have to do some research prior to jumping in to the homeschooling arena.
Kids they go to public schools have to stay on the campus, something that many parents do not appreciate or like. If you want to take your kids to the beach or a national park, you can't take them out of school if they are enrolled. When you home school your kids, you are free to plan your schedule any way you want. Your trip could consist of going to Disneyland or flying to Hawaii and it wouldn't matter. Traveling does not have to be limited to social visits, it can be trips to help expand their consciousness and awareness. In fact, you can travel during the off-season's and save a ton of money on your trips because of this.
In regard to families, homeschooling allows them to remain close together. In the modern world, many parents and kids drift away from each other when children reach school age. Your influence over your children will begin to wane at this point. Homeschooling provides you with the opportunity to get close to your children once again. Of course, this has it's challenging aspects as well. Being a teacher, you have to know subject material which can be tough if you don't remember it. Overall, homeschooling is more popular than sending your kids to school specifically in regard to spending more time with them.
There's one aspect of home schooling that can be considered either a benefit or a drawback, depending on how you look at it. It's actually both. Conforming to institutional rules is a lesson that homeschooled children will definitely miss, an important aspect of growing up to say the least. Several rules that your child will never have to abide by, unless you enforce them yourself, include dress code and punctuality. Creativity and an independent spirit may develop at home, something that may be repressed in the public schools; however your children may also suffer, being unable to follow the rules of an institution.
Even though home schooling is a lot more widespread now than even a few years ago, it's still considered unusual by most people. There are a few things to consider such as social skills that you're child may lack, and other things that you need to provide for to make the experience beneficial. Just understand that you have to do some research prior to jumping in to the homeschooling arena.
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