How Military Families Benefit from Homeschooling

Families homeschool for many different reasons from educational concerns to health issues. For some the reason is for flexibility. Many military families can benefit from homeschooling by bringing the family closer together, giving you more flexibility in schedule and learning and give your children a solid education no matter how many times you move. Let's discuss these reasons and help you overcome the biggest stumbling block military homeschool families may encounter.

A Few Good Reasons

The first benefit for a military family to homeschool is the flexibility that homeschooling offers while traveling. Homeschooling allows you to use your military move as an educational opportunity. Education won't be put on hold for the move, it will become part of the move! Learn about the state you are moving to, the amount of gas your vehicle will hold, the distance you can travel on this amount of gas and so much more. The homeschool ideas are endless. The book Carschooling is loaded with ideas. My family used it on many homeschool road trips and military moves. The homeschool opportunities are truly endless!

Another great reason for a military family to homeschool is more time with the military parent. When Dad or Mom is home from overseas, homeschooling can take a day off to spend time with the military parent. We took this time off from homeschool to plan day trips to museums and parks, camping trips and time spent with family. No more waiting until the kids are out of school. You homeschool on a schedule that works for your military family.

When I was a Navy Brat, I often moved in the middle of a school year. I ended up missing sections in the curriculum from our moves. One instance was in health. At the school I left, they just finished first aid and were moving on to nutrition. In my new school they just finished nutrition and were moving on to first aid. Homeschooling will help give your children a solid curriculum without the gaps in their education and allows the student to learn at their own pace. If the homeschool student has mastered multiplication, they won't have to wait for the rest of their class or the curriculum. They can continue on to something else.

Biggest Possible Downfall: The Money!

Every military family knows that pay is a major factor in life. Homeschooling your children may seem expensive at first but there are plenty of inexpensive resources depending on the style of homeschool you wish to use.

The Homeschool Learning Network is a valuable resource for military families that want to homeschool. It offers a structured educational track of 36-weeks, Weekly Unit Studies for 40 weeks or you can use their homeschool resources to create your own unique homeschool program. The cost is low at $15.95 a month per family!

Ann Zeise's Homes Cool Website is really the only source for homeschooling that you'll ever need. This endless website of homeschool resources, information, styles, curriculum, homeschool lesson ideas and so much more, is completely free for you to use.

It doesn't take thousands of dollars to homeschool your children. It's easy to do and the research on homeschool ideas are endless.