There are a good many reasons why you should homeschool your children but here are four of the best reasons why you should choose homeschooling over institutional schooling.

1. Scholastic Achievement. There have been enough studies done now to show that homeschooled children do as well and usually better than their public school counterparts.  Test results have shown that homeschool children score higher than the average on ACT and SAT college entrance exams and generally higher on general scholastic aptitude tests.  Not only that, but when you see that your child has a high aptitude in a specific area, you can choose currriculum and studies that will enhance their natural aptitudes.
2. Creating a close knit family.  Homeschooling has this great built in feature that people that do not homeschool do not understand.  Their children generally get along better with each other as well as their parents a lot more through the process of learning together.  Homeschooling naturally brings a family closer together as older children help younger children and each feels a sense of being part of something bigger than themselves. We have six children now ranging from thirteen to twenty three and they are all great friends with each other. We don’t have the sister or brother who hates each other that you see so often in families.
3. Socialization.  The last point somewhat coincides with this one as homeschooling teaches your children how to get along with people of different ages. Regular schooling takes fifty kids of the same age and throws them together.  Not great for learning to deal with real life situations of mixed age groups. Homeschooled kids generally also get to be around other people through volunteer work at church and in homeschool groups as well as through group activities with homeschool groups that generally bring all ages together. We know how cruel kids tend to be in regular schools.  This isn’t the case with homeschooled children and they are generally more comfortable conversing with adults than kids from regular schools.
4. Religious Freedom.  Choosing homeschooling allows you to raise your children and teach them according to the religious and moral values that you believe in rather than subject them to the government system that tries to remain morally neutral which has its own detrimental aspects.

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I am not so sure if the view is quite the same today as it was years ago, but one of the greatest criticisms about homeschooling was the fear that children needed to be “socialized.” What that meant in most peoples eyes was that a child would be socially malformed if the student did not hang around with fifty other kids his age all day. That seems to be an interesting view on eventually being a contributing part of society.

The truth is that when a person enters the “real world” after their education has been completed, they are probably not going to work in a job that consistes of everyone being their own age. I haven’t seen one of those jobs yet and to tgell you the truth I would be afraid if I did.  Homeschooled kids learn to interact with people of all ages and are generally more adept at being able to converse comfortably with adults as well as children at their own level.

These days there are many support groups for homeschoolers that offer families the chance to get together for all sorts of social interaction.  Homeschool groups offer field trips, classes with other students, and a variety of other ways that homeschool children can get together and learn the subtleties of getting along with others in society.

I would rather have my child learn social interaction through homeschool groups and other families than from fifty kids on the playground any day.

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