Homeschooling: The Right Choice?

One reason to choose homeschooling is the desire to foster a closer relationship with each of your children and your kids with one another. If you don't want to spend more time together, then homeschooling may not be the best choice for you. However, I am sure that you have heard it said before that at the end of the day, no one is going to say, "I wish that I had spent more time at work, or by myself." No, the universal regret that aging people declare is their sadness over not spending enough time with their loved ones. Teaching your children at home is an amazing opportunity to spend more time with your dearest loved ones and have no regrets.

One essential ingredient to successful homeschooling is creating a home environment that is conducive to learning. This may show itself differently in each of our homes, but the result is the same - a place where kids can learn and enjoy it.

A home that is conducive to learning may have quiet and cozy reading nooks, bookshelves crammed with great books, a listening corner complete with headphones and a beanbag chair, uncluttered smooth surfaces for writing, stacks of coloring/activity books and colored pencils, a place to gather together and talk about the day's events. You get the idea! Create centers in your home that make learning fun and accessible.

The daily time commitment for a successful homeschool is 2 hours to devote to your children's studies. Truly, when the one-on-one teaching method is employed in your home, you do not need all day in order to get things done. In fact, a child in grades K-2 might be finished with her schoolwork in as few as 45 minutes (of course, that probably does not include the time that you spend reading together because who can get enough of that!).
At the other end of the spectrum, you might not need that much time with your middle schooler or high schooler either, because they become such independent learners by this age. The kids that will need the majority of that time that you have designated for school - those full 2 hours - would be your students in grades 3-6 as math and grammar assignments might get a little more involved.

It is essential that you have a comprehensive, easy to follow set of plans. It could take hours to research and plan everything you need to include in your homeschooling curriculum! Luckily, all this research and planning has been done for you by Homeschooling ABC's. If you click on the link below and follow the simple instructions, and if you can provide a rich homeschooling environment plus a few hours per week of your time, you will experience successful learning in the lives of your children, because this is the measure of success - children who love to learn!