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First lets try to comprehend the reasons we would want David and Karen to learn at home instead going to public schools. Starting with some superficial reasons, 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. Homeschooling actually will give you more control over the things that will happen in the classroom. What i believe to be one of the most important benefits of homeschooling is that the parent is in control of how their child develops. You are the only one that will make the choices about what your child needs to learn or do.  It will no longer be something that you have little or no control over. Being able to decide the home school curriculum that best fits your children’s 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 receive when homeschooling. Lets just say that one of your children needs more work in English, well now you can adjust the time spent on English to whatever you like as there are no set hours for learning a subject like there is in public schools. One thing that you are able to do homeschooling that you cannot in public schools is remove some of the anxiety a child might have by not getting enough time in a subject in which he/she needs more help with, unlike when you are homeschooling you can just adjust your child’s schedule to give them more time in a day in that particular subject. Of course the time requirement to learn any subject will totally depend on the individual child.

Just about all the steps of the learning curriculum become a family type activity, and this is fantastic for the family. Another thing that you will really love about homeschooling your child is you get to take them on field trips where you will both learn and have a wonderful time, and you will be doing experiments with them, which can be very interesting, but all then this also equals you are spending much more "quality time" with you child and i believe that this also brings a family 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. Also because you understand your children more than anyone else you can plan the learning sessions to help keep your child interested and moving forward, one thing that i always like to do is mix the child’s difficult schooling activities with something that your child enjoys. One of my most favorite things to do with my children every once in a while is after 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 morally and religiously 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. Some think that there children are not learning enough, or some that the child might be getting pushed way to hard. Other public school issues that are concerning parents today are the discipline and ethics that are being taught in system. I believe that homeschooling in the environment 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 commitment by both you and your child, but most importantly you must understand the actual time that you are going to have to put into your child’s education homeschooling them, because it takes a lot of time, if you do not have the time that it requires to benefit your child’s homeschooling education, you should not attempt to as this only fails.

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