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Homeschooling:

If you are thinking about home-schooling your child, there are a few points you should consider in order to be able to fully make this decision:

Will it affect their social skills?
This is a long-standing debate and both sides make great arguments, including examples of kids who have been home-schooled and have a hard time interacting with others later in life, and those who have been home-schooled and do just fine in the outside world when they graduate. How it will affect your child will depend on two main factors:

• Your child's general personality—if your child has been an outgoing, talkative, friendly person ever since she could speak, you likely won't have to worry about whether she will be able to interact with others when she needs to. If, however, she is shy, inhibited, and never wants to talk to other kids, you may want to send her to a school simply for the chance to learn how to develop these skills.

• How much other interaction is available—if you home-school your child, and you never take them in public except when necessary, and they aren't involved in any extracurricular activities, they may develop issues with being social. On the other hand, if you home-school your child but you also give them plenty of opportunities for social interaction with other kids, such as involving them in sports or taking them on play dates, then there likely won't be any problems as they get older.

Will they become too dependent on their parents because of this?
Again, this is one of those arguments where both sides have a point, but it can be avoided with some effort. If your child doesn't go to school, you should still let them have some time away from the parents. One of the biggest things that the child will be missing by not going to school is the opportunity to make many decisions on their own. If they are home all the time with a parent, it is possible that this opportunity will not present itself very often. However, you can provide plenty of opportunities like this to make up for it, and doing so may help your child become less dependent on you.

How will they get the opportunity to overcome conflict?
If your child has siblings, this opportunity will present itself again and again on a daily basis. If not, you should let your child be around family members or neighbors for extended periods of times. In order to be able to develop a problem to solve, a child needs to have access to more than just their parents. And, while no parent wants their child to ever have to deal with any problems, let alone have to solve them, it is a necessary part of growing up. If you are there to solve all your child's problems for them, how will they handle life when they enter the real world? As long as you allow them the social interaction mentioned above, though, this shouldn't be something that you will have to worry about.

Is there anything they can get at school that they can't get at home?
Of course there is, just like there are things they can get at home that they can't get from attending school. In both methods, they will learn what they need to graduate, which is the main point. There is more to it than that, though, and you should do what's best for your child. If your child would do better in a structured environment like school, then you should send them to one. If you think that your child would thrive more in their education by being taught by you, then this is what you should do. The main thing is to evaluate all scenarios and information, and try to make the decision that would be most beneficial to your child.



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