Home Schooling Resources - Complete Grade Home Schooling Section

Welcome to Home Schooling Resources

 

Complete Grade Home Schooling Article

Benefits of Homeschooling
Pamela Connolly

A wise man once said, "We can teach our children to have courage, faith, and endurance and show them how to learn, and they can teach us to laugh, to sing, and to love." In other words, each family member has valuable lessons to teach the family.

When a family homeschools, this reciprocal relationship is magnified. Homeschooling participants are affected by more than just the person who sit at the homeschool table. All generations create and reinforce the bond between family members. Home schooling families spend their time laughing, learning, playing and living with each other 24/7.

You can choose the best curriculum to promote an intrinsic love of lifelong learning. The homeschool curriculum is flexible. The parameters are determined by the best teachers available, the parents, who know and love their children.

Learning never stops in the homeschool environment. The parents are not just lecturers or observers. They are active participants who expand, explain and encourage their children to be inquisitive and explore the specific areas that interest them without the constraints of arbitrary rules set up by an outside source.

Another benefit to homeschooling is that the parents model and reinforce valuable behavior and deemphasize undesirable behavior in a natural manner.

Historically several generations lived in the same home. Everyone benefited from this multi-generational living arrangement, coming away with valuable lessons that cannot be taught in a book. Plus most of the time there was the added advantage of the multi-grade/level schoolhouse for the formal education.

Presently we often put the older generation in nursing homes when they get too bothersome (only to visit them on holidays), and we settle for a failing public school system that has been tasked with being everything to everyone but alienates most participants.

Homeschooling is the best of both worlds. It's good for both the family and for your children's education.

The benefits of home schooling are limitless. As a parent who homeschooled three children, I feel that homeschooling is the greatest gift a parent can give their child. Try it. You'll like it!

About the author:

Pam Connolly is a professional educator with the San Diego School District. She has been teaching kids how to type for over 11 years. To teach your child typing, visit http://www.1stoplearntotyp e.com.

Complete Grade Home Schooling News

Use The Adavantages Of The Web And Download High Quality Education Resources. - MichiganPR.net (press release)

Use The Adavantages Of The Web And Download High Quality Education Resources. MichiganPR.net (press release) For many home schooling parents, the ability to download online textbooks is providing the opportunity to maintain control over their child's school curriculum while giving them access to knowledge gained in the traditional classroom. Complete ...

Read more...

---

Schools pull plug on East Coast trips - U-T San Diego

Schools pull plug on East Coast trips U-T San Diego The era of the eighth-grade East Coast trip is over for San Diego schools, ending a rite of passage that has brought history alive for generations of students — while leaving those who cannot afford it at home. The trips were marketed by teachers to ... and more »

Read more...

---

Memories of nine months abroad in China - Xinhua

Memories of nine months abroad in China Xinhua By Cheng Guangjin ( China Daily) BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Molly Bodurtha, an American high school student, should have gone back home to New Haven, Connecticut, six months ago. But she tried hard to persuade her parents and her home school to ... and more »

Read more...

---