10 Reasons We Should All Homeschool Our Children

1. A safe learning environment

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Schools are made up of children from different backgrounds, some of which may be toxic. For this reason, your child is in danger of being introduced to damaging vices and other unhealthy habits. Name them: drugs, sexual immorality, and even crime. Furthermore, bullying is rampant in schools, and many victims have reportedly been depressed. Homeschooling enables you, as a parent, to ensure that your child does not associate with undisciplined peers or fall victim to mistreatment.

 2. Healthy conditions

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Some children have medical conditions and are not suited to spend time in uncontrolled settings like schools. It could be asthma or diabetes, which would require your parental monitoring. Children with such conditions need to take their drugs on time, eat prescribed meals, and be prevented from engaging in activities that are harmful to their health. By homeschooling them, you can carefully assess your child's health progress and provide an environment favorable to their improvement.

3. Individual assistance

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Teachers in school may need more time to assist your child on various topics or determine their comprehensive ability. There are too many students to cater to and too little time for it. However, when you have a tutor in your home, your child's learning progress becomes a priority. They will absorb your child's feedback and act upon it. Learning becomes more accessible when tutor-student communication is clear and holistic.

4. Schedule Flexibility

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Let's be real! The school schedule is generally fixed and absolute. Various lessons are allocated on different timeframes, and your child's mind may need to respond more to this reality. Moods change. Attitudes vary. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure flexible learning. Your child may study what they feel like at a particular moment. Homeschooling allows you to change lessons, shorten or lengthen the time allocated to subjects, or discard lessons altogether.

5. Stronger Family Bonds

         

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Spending quality time with family nourishes a child's growth process and assures them of love and care. School consumes much time, temporarily separating a child from its parents and siblings. For this reason, some children cannot communicate with their family members as they would like, creating a sense of coldness and detachment. Facilitating your child's learning at home makes them feel secure and comfortable with other family members, as no moment is lost.

6. Controlled Socialization

         

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Homeschooling does not lock away your child from the real world, as many of its opponents claim. Instead, it enables a child to socialize within the limits set at home. Playing with other children in the neighborhood, or short visits to their homes, ensures your child's mind remains active but under parental surveillance and consent. You do not have to fear if your child relates with unknown people. Moreover, you can quickly stop them from associating with the wrong crowd.

7. Inexpensive

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Surprised? Contrary to the famous assertion that traditional schooling is cheaper, homeschooling allows you to select what subjects your child intends to learn and purchase the necessities. Schools have inflexible tuition fees that you must pay, whether your child even benefits at all. On the other hand, homeschooling can be balanced following the available family budget or financial capabilities. If a particular item cannot be afforded, you can defer it easily or get cheaper options.

8. Career-oriented Curriculum

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Schools serve many students with different career aspirations and life objectives. Teachers are mandated to teach a government-sanctioned curriculum, rarely minding how it would impact their students' future. On the contrary, homeschooling allows you to balance your child's needs and desires. You can assess their strengths and build upon them for a prospective career. The tutors have enough time to mentor their students toward this goal, further crafting their expertise in these areas.

9. Tutor Selection

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You cannot choose your child's teacher because they serve many other students. Even when your child complains about difficulty grasping some of their lessons, nothing much can be done. Homeschooling works to fill this gap. You can evaluate how a tutor behaves or handles your child. You can stress their improvement, personally vet their professional status and change them if needed.

10. Talent Maximization

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Identifying your child's talents becomes easier when they begin their home learning process. They are comfortable expressing themselves here, and nothing deters them from doing what they like. Children may not sing as well in school, fearing other students may laugh or jeer at them. Such suppression hinders them from living up to their ingenuity and resort to insipid existence. At home, you can provide the resources they need to actualize their talents. You can even get some tutors to furnish them. Our talented athletes, artists, musicians, and writers can attribute their growth to homely support.

11. Keeping up with the child's pace

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Learning is a unique experience for everyone. Some children can grasp concepts faster than others. It does not mean that those who take time are dumb or stupid. Schools run at their speed, never caring about those left behind. This reality may be too daunting for those children with slow retention abilities. However, homeschooling levels the field by ensuring tutors keep up with the student. If some concepts need brushing up, the tutor is always ready. Students with learning impairments, autism, and other special needs have benefited immensely from homeschooling.

12. Community service

         

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It is easier to incorporate your child into community development when they homeschool. They may need more time in school to participate in daytime activities in their neighborhoods or local municipalities. These include environmental cleaning, town hall meetings, and team-building activities. Homeschooling enables your child to get an education without severing ties with the communities around them, thus fostering unity and belonging.

13. Independence in thought

        

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Children who are homeschooled can explore their ideas freely without conforming to authority. Schools have a system of hierarchy that instils order and demands unconditional obedience from students. This reality transforms a child into an individual afraid of questioning authority even when it is wrong. Homeschooling, however, encourages a child to respond appropriately to issues without necessarily demanding deference.

14. Relocating

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Families move from one part of the country to another, sometimes even different countries. Relocating means changing schools for your children. It is usually a stressful experience because your child has to adjust to the new environment, and it may take some time to impart comfort. However, homeschooling ensures that your child's education remains unaffected by frequent moving. Nothing is interrupted, as your child will continue from where they stopped.

15. Family Values, Culture, and Faith

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Schools rarely accommodate every child's religious education and values transmission. It is because they serve students with different religions and cultures. Even faith-based schools cannot properly shape your child following every family's specific values. Homeschooling allows your child to learn what they need, alongside getting skills and attitudes not provided in schools. Your child will learn more about your family's unique culture, religious teachings, and generational craft.

16. Intensive Reading

           

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Children love reading different genres of books that may be outside the school curriculum. This is unfortunate. There may be books you would love to introduce your child to, but there is no way the school can accommodate these interests. This is where homeschooling comes in. You have the freedom to institute your child's reading interests or include those books you think would be valuable to them. Furthermore, homeschooling provides enough time and flexibility for your child to interact with these books and gain much more from them.

17. Assessment of Reading Materials

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Let us be real! Sometimes parents do not know the kind of books children read in school. These books could belong to other students. Your child will likely encounter pornographic literature in school or other materials capable of destroying their perception of reality. However, homeschooling allows you to determine if your child's reading is good for their education. Moreover, you can monitor if they are reading what is appropriate.

18. House chores and responsibilities

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We all wish that our children will grow up to become responsible members of their households. But schooling deters them from learning home duties and performing chores that would be useful for them in the future. For this reason, homeschooling has proven to be a valuable educational process that allows your child to get educated but still interact with their duties at home. They can learn arithmetic and science and later cook meals with their parents.

19. Better Sleeping Habits

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Health experts have attributed poor sleeping patterns in children to long hours in school. Your child can't get an afternoon nap in school for almost an entire day. Homework further complicates their rest. However, homeschooling allows your children to get enough sleep, wake up refreshed, get naps when needed, and sleep early enough. Good sleep improves their learning ability and reduces stress.

20. Parental Involvement

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Parents are responsible for overseeing their children's education, not only financially but also content-wise. Children are more likely to learn when their caregivers indulge in the process. Helping your kids to do assignments, practice activities, and assess progress enables you to bond with your child at a deeper level. In this way, they feel more loved and cared for. Parental Involvement also provides an opportunity for you to get accurate and first-hand information about your child's academic progress.

21. Memories

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Long school hours consume a lot of valuable time that would have been spent creating memories with your child. Homeschooling allows you to be part and parcel of your child's growth, giving them fond recollections of your parenting process. Memories effectively shape their future actions, and implement similar techniques with their children. It is also important for you to note that good memories help them to deal with stressful moments.

22. Dealing with monotony

        

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Schools have monotonous programs. Time is occupied by similar activities that will likely make your child bored. However, homeschooling is an effective way to juggle lessons and activities that do not look repetitive. Monotony breeds disinterest. Students dislike activities and lessons that follow a bromidic structure. However, homeschooling allows you to reinvent lessons for your child and introduce new teaching techniques and concepts they would not expect. Anything to keep their curiosity fired up.

23. Appreciation of ideas

        

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Schools are said to crush innovative ideas in the minds of children. This is partly true. There is a conventional system of knowledge disseminated there. What teachers instruct them to do forms a great part of the student's ideas and knowledge. To some extent, schools are forced to ignore additional knowledge or ideas of students if they depart from the set curriculum. However, homeschooling allows you to absorb your child's ideas and grow them as part of their collective learning. This appreciation enables them to think critically and creatively without fear or discontent.

24. Early Graduation

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Did you know your child has a higher chance of joining college earlier if homeschooled? Traditional schooling is set following the curriculum. It doesn't matter if your child learns fast enough. They would need to complete the ranks to join college. Homeschooling accommodates faster children with ease. They are unrestricted in their quest to gain knowledge, becoming graduates as early as possible. This helps them focus on other prospects in life before they age.

25. Trips to places of interest

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Homeschooling allows you to organize educational trips to the museum, popular geographical places, historical reenactments, theatre performances, sports events, and musical concerts. These trips can help them better understand what they read or study at home and build interest in these subjects. Schools cannot effectively plan these trips because time is constrained, and the specific needs of students are not considered. For this reason, lessons become superficial and abstract.

26. Better Experimentation

                   

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Children are naturally curious and love to experiment with the theoretical concepts they learn. Observation is a powerful way of learning and empowers a child to remember concepts more deeply. However, teachers in school may not offer this opportunity to their students, limited to instructing the basic concepts. These concepts can easily be forgotten or seen as unimportant unless they are subjected to practicable, mind-blowing experiments.

 27. More playing time

                         

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A popular adage says, 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.' Perhaps it was meant to portray the weighty nature of schoolwork that dissuaded children from playing and engaging in fun activities. However, homeschooling does not restrain your child from playing with their mates or by themselves. Furthermore, there is no limitation to amenities because you can easily take them to various places where they can play and even make friends.

28. Few Distractions

          

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Homeschooling your child gives them the silence and the comfort they need to learn. Schools are filled with other students who must constantly be reminded to remain silent. Even students who love studying find it hard when others distract them. To improve your child's academic productivity, consider homeschooling because you can enable a silent environment where they are alone. However, consider them bringing a few serious friends for group study.

29. Study for study's sake

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One of the greatest criticisms against traditional schooling is the unhealthy focus on academic tests and periodical examinations. Expert studies have revealed that many children face high levels of stress when they are about to take exams. Homeschooling overrules the need for exams. Studies are not a cramming exercise that intends to help your child to pass an exam; rather, it is an enjoyable process that does not pile pressure on them.

30. A proven success

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Finally, it is important to realize that homeschooling is a familiar enterprise. It has been practised before and has produced outstanding results. Many of our prominent politicians, artists, and scholars have attested to learning most of their knowledge at home. Schools, as they are, were popular in the last century. Furthermore, studies have shown homeschooled children perform better on ACT and SATs. What more could you desire for your intelligent child?