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Home school education is becoming more and more popular. If you are a parent who is considering home schooling your children and are looking for the pros and cons, I have put a list together for you. I must admit though that I haven’ t found much in the way of negatives.

I am rather sad to say that when my children were young home school education was not permitted.

Benefits of Home School Education

Neither you nor they have to be woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning.
Neither you nor they have to suddenly hunt for a lost book or some other urgently needed school item.
You do not have to worry about sending an unwell child out of doors because of an important test.
You do not have to worry about our child being bullied.
You do not have to concern yourself about the costs that formal schooling involves.
You do not have to worry about your child being led astray because of peer pressure.
Your child is able to grow and develop in a secure and familiar environment.
Your child is not forced to study a subject that holds absolutely no interest or purpose for him or her.
You can tailor the curriculum to suit the child, not the school.
The subjects which the children like the least can be alternated with their favorite subjects
Your child gets individual attention rather than being one lost soul amongst 30 other children.
There are no fixed hours per subject, so your child can spend as much time as needed on any specific subject.
Schooling becomes an interesting family activity along with field trips and scientific experiments.
Parents get to spend more time with their children.
The family is able to share everything from chores to games, and projects.
The child is not pressured to achieve beyond his or her ability and thus grow in confidence.
Your child does not need to be held back in any subject just because the rest of the class is slower than he or she is.
A greater number of interesting field trips can be arranged at times that are more suited to family requirements and pockets.
Personal religious beliefs can be incorporated into the curriculum without confusion from outside factors.
It will be so much easier incorporating a more unusual subject into your home schooling curriculum, when you child expresses an interest in it.
Your child can be a round peg which fits into a correctly sized round hole, rather than a square peg being forced into an incorrectly sized and shaped hole.
You can encourage good discipline and manners which usually fall by the wayside in the more formal environment.
You do not have to concern yourself about the cost of “show off” clothing.
Social interaction is not lost because the kids can join various clubs or institutions e.g. soccer, ballet horse-riding, philately, where they can meet other young people with the same interests.

Negatives of Home School Education

You will need to be an organized and disciplined person.
You need to have the ability and the interest to ensure that you follow through with your child’s educational and emotional needs.
You need to have enough financial security to not have to work outside the home.

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