Four Reasons to Homeschool
Posted by webmasterJul 3
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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