Homeschooling Benefits:

Reasons For Homeschooling

Homeschooling benefits ALL of you. With children out at school and parents out at work the whole family is being pulled in different directions.

One of the many benefits of homeschooling is spending time together. In fact, the close bond you develop is probably one of the reasons that homeschool children have been recognised as being able to develop into independent adults so successfully.

When you enter the traditional toddler-type territory of: "That's my cup!" it's understandable that parents quickly look for respite in child-care. It's also understandable that those same parents often look back and wish that they had spent more time with their children when they were young.

It's something everyone knows but still manages to amaze me: children grow up so fast. Homeschooling benefits you all because it helps you make the most of the time you have together.

Home school also avoids many of the problems that can come with school, as you can see when you look at the benefits to homeschooling which come along with spending time together. Plus there's the proven academic advantage of homeschooling, which is borne out by statistics.

More Benefits of Homeschooling

What's in it for you?

Homeschool has been great for me because it's given me the perfect excuse to indulge my love of crafts.

We've learnt how to weave Native Indian beads, make paper, tie-dye, marble, window paint, do lino-printing, make collages, knit, sew, bake, laminate…all in the name of homeschool!

You can add to that the benefits you get from picking up new interests because of the children. I'd never have guessed I would know so much about Big Cats, fighter planes, rodents, Greek myths, space, the Second World War, dogs – mind you, I'm not really the expert, you'd have to ask William and Catherine!

If you'd like to begin enjoying the benefits of homeschool too, have a look at the getting started on homeschooling page.

When my husband comes home Catherine's ready with her latest dragon picture and William wants to fill him in on how to build a robot. I have to say after a day at work Rob does seem a little less enthusiastic than he might!

We've seen the enormous advantages of homeschooling that come from your child having the freedom to learn by following their own interests.

And the benefits of homeschooling shine through: we're all much more involved in each other's lives than if the children went to school.

That works both ways! It means I can get the children to do some housework (after overcoming the usual childhood avoidance tactics of course). The children are much more involved in the day-to-day business of running a home. Where are we going to get the computer fixed? The cat needs to go to the vet…

It just so happens that these are exactly the real-life skill which are so hard to re-create in a school environment.

Mind you, there are some bad things about homeschooling - with the relatives top of the list! There are a few problems too when we catch the common homeschool anxt. and I ask myself: are we getting anywhere?

But overall the homeschooling benefits are tremendous and one of them is entirely MINE. I get more time. Life's not a continuous rush. I'm not dashing to get the children up, their breakfast down, off to school, off to work…and back again.

Finally, can I confess? I have lots of little bits of time free all day every day and quite a few days when I do absolutely nothing with the children at all. They're busy and happy and I can do whatever I want.

So homeschooling benefits all of us.

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