A recent study by the Home School Defense Legal Association (HSDLA) found that over 49 percent of homeschooling parents opt to homeschool for religious reasons. Other parents homeschool because the local school wasn’t meeting the educational or social needs of their children. One of the hidden benefits of homeschooling, though, is the flexibility parents and children have to pursue extracurricular interests. Children attending a traditional public or private school spend around six hours per day in school. Add in transportation and homework, and at least eight hours of the day is gone. Families struggle to
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Educating children for economic survival can be very difficult, especially in a society where most adults don’t even know how to survive or thrive economically. Instead, most adults go through life making financial mistake after financial mistake that leaves them unable to save money or even pay the bills. This problem begins in childhood because most children learn little or nothing about money. They grow up thinking “money is something I ask Mommy and Daddy for” and “Mommy and Daddy will always be there to take care of me,” and they keep that attitude all
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As if the idea of teaching your children English, math, history, and science is not intimidating enough, consider a foreign language. Learning a new language is a great way to become a more analytical thinker, to increase opportunities, and to develop as a well-rounded person. If you never learned another language yourself and the idea of teaching one scares you, fear not. There are many great ways to get your kids into a foreign language and culture, and it is not as difficult as you may think. Why learn a new language? The world is
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Teaching one child at home while running the household, keeping a budget, and taking care of everyone’s needs is not easy. Homeschooling more than one child at different grade levels turns the difficulty up several notches. Homeschooling any number of children successfully requires patience, planning, and a lot of knowledge and research. It is not a task to be taken lightly, but if you are already doing it, you know that the reward is worth all the work. So how do you tackle the impressive job of single-handedly educating two or more children of different
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