Thirteen Reasons To Homeschool

1. Spending Time With Your Family – at a time when there are more and more gadgets to make our life “easier”, these gadgets also take a lot of our time away from other things.  The computer, video games, cell phones, Ipods, and the television, all are distractions.  With homeschooling you have more time to spend with your children, no matter how many other distractions are around

2. Setting Your Own Schedule – You never have to worry about your children missing any school days to go on vacation.  When you’re homeschooling, even vacation time is school time!

3. Parental Influence over Peer Pressure – With over-crowded classrooms being a huge problem throughout the united states, it’s no wonder our children are more influenced by other kids than their own parents.  With homeschooling, the parents have the most influence over our kids.

4. Nurturing a Love of Learning – as a parent homeschooling your children, you can see what their interests are, and adapt their lessons accordingly, which inspires them to learn and instills a love of learning.  No worries of an intelligent child getting bored in class, or a child having difficulties being left behind.

5. No Pressure to Keep Up – Without having the large classroom of other children surrounding them, your child can learn at his own pace, without fear of being labeled a nerd for liking a subject or stupid for not getting it at the right time.

6. Morality – Whether your religious views are extremely strong and fundamental or non-existant, as a homeschooler you get to decide what morals are acceptable and taught to your children.  The pressure to have sex, or take drugs is not there, and you get to decide how much they learn about those “sensitive” topics at what age.

7. Security – As a homeschooler, you don’t have to worry about “school shootings” or guns being brought into school, and that’s without having to install metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs at the front door.

8. Educational Standards – With the public school system in the US failing our children, and homeschooling becoming more accepted, we have the ability to give our children the best education possible.  Now most colleges and universities not only allow homeschooled children to attend, they actually seek them out because of their level of education.

9. Socialization – No where in a traditional school, whether public or private, can a child get a more well rounded and diverse exposure than in the homeschool.  When children are homeschooled, they are seldom IN the home the entire day.  Usually the parents take them to stores, to their work, museums and many other places, while tradtional schools are still in the 4 walls of a classroom.  Homeschooled children can get to know a “real world” variety of people by being out in the real world, learning and interacting on a daily basis.

10. Real Life Applications – When a child is homeschooled, not only do they get to experience more things, but they get to see what they are learning being used in real life applications.  They go to the store with their mother and see her using math to decide what is the best buy.  They watch their father working in his career, using everything from life sciences to computer sciences.

11. Stagnant Knowledge – In  a traditional school, often the information is outdated and it takes tons of red tape to get them changed.  In the homeschool, the information you get can be updated by the minute.  And when something is wrong in a text book, you can find other sources to get the correct information.

12. Homework – In homeschool, it’s ALL homework!  Which means, when you’re done with your lessons, you’re done.  Your children don’t have to come home after 6-8 hrs in class, and spend the rest of the night doing more school work.  Usually a homeschooled child spends an average of 4 hrs a day total on school work,  where as a child in a traditional school spends 6-8 hrs in class and another 2-4 doing homework.  Sometimes even more hours on homework!

13. And lastly, the best reason of all – You get to know your child better than anyone else!  You get to see him gain knowledge and walk through those amazing steps of growing up.  You don’t have to wait until he gets home from school to tell you about it, you get to experience it with him.  As his excitement for a new subject grows, or he learns something amazine about himeslf or the world, you’re there with him the entire time!

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