Benefits of homeschooling

A wise man once said, “We can teach our children courage and faith and endurance and show them how to learn, and they can teach us to laugh and sing and love.” In other words, each family member has valuable lessons to teach the family.

When a family homeschools, this reciprocal relationship is magnified. Homeschooling participants are affected by more than just the person sitting at the homeschooling table. All generations create and reinforce the bond between family members. Homeschooled families spend their time laughing, learning, playing and living together 24/7.

You can choose the best curriculum to promote an intrinsic love of lifelong learning. The homeschool curriculum is flexible. The parameters are set by the best teachers available, the parents, who know and love their children.

Learning never stops in the homeschool environment. Parents are not just readers or observers. They are active participants who extend, explain, and encourage their children to be curious and explore the specific areas that interest them without the constraints of arbitrary rules set by an outside source.

Another benefit of homeschooling is that parents model and reinforce valuable behavior and de-emphasize undesirable behavior in a natural way.

Historically, several generations lived in the same house. Everyone benefited from this multi-generational living arrangement, gaining valuable lessons that cannot be taught in a book. Most of the time there was the added advantage of the multi-grade/level school for formal education.

These days, we often send the older generation to nursing homes when they get too annoying (only to visit on holidays), and settle for a failing public school system that has taken it upon itself to be everything to everyone but alienate to most of the participants.

Homeschooling is the best of both worlds. It is good for both the family and the education of your children.

The benefits of homeschooling are limitless. As a father who homeschooled three children, I feel that homeschooling is the greatest gift a father can give his child. Try it. It will like you!