You Can Home School Your Children: Dubunking Stereotypes

The term home schooling has coined a idea of anti social families rising anti social kids in a bubble. Home schooling is so far from that typical stereo type and yet the term home school still has not broken it's own stigma. So let's discuss some common myths about home schooling.

1)Home schooling parents are rising anti social kids.

Anti social kids exists among us in both public school, private school, and yes home school. It is actually a personality that some children take on regardless of their environment. For example, I am sure we can all recollect at least one student in our class room, while we were in school, who didn't talk to many people, sat at lunch alone, and was involved in no extra curricular activities. Sending this child to a school wasn't going to change that.

With that in mind, many and most home schooled children are not kids in a bubble. They are usually free to attend community sports leagues and teams, participate in Sunday school or youth group, and hang out with the other children in the neighborhood. They have friends from church, neighbor hood, clubs, and sports teams and are usually well rounded socially and emotionally.

2)Home schooling my kids will keep them away from real life experiences.

No doubt that there are many concerned parents who pluck their teen or child out of the public school system due to lack of moral in both curriculum and peers. But to state that having a child in this environment is a passage of life is not necessarily true. Your child still has a life outside of the home, and will still be faced with much of those same issues, so isn't it wise to think that at least they have been under your instruction and not the culprit instruction of some schools. The things many students learn today are nothing short of if it feels good do it - just be smart and use protection! The filth that infiltrates even the highest ranked public schools goes against the grain of many families who have every right to want more for their children. You can not protect kids from real life, but you can be sure that they are raised with as much instruction as wisdom as you can personally equip them with should you chose to home school

3) Home schooling is too difficult and I am not a teacher.

Before your child attended school, who taught them to say "mama" and "dada"? Who taught them to crawl and then to walk? Who encouraged them to use the big kid potty instead of a diaper? Who showed them how to safely use a knife to cut their chicken? Who taught them their colors and shapes? Are you getting the picture? Most likely you answered most of those questions with "I did" and yet you didn't even have a curriculum and answer book in front of you for each one of those lessons! There is a lot of help out there for the home schooling parent. You don't need a degree in teaching, just a good curriculum and your natural parenting skills should do. Of course, you can always consider a tutor for a troubling subject, but most of the curriculum you can cover yourself - no - degree required!

Connections Academy is actually a great place to start if you wish to home school. Connections Academy is actually a public school curriculum that you do at home at home with the slight assistance of a certified teacher grading assignments and communicating by phone with you and your child every two weeks. Not only is Connections Academy comprehensive, high rated, and easy to start - but it is completely free! To learn more about home schooling through Connections Academy please check out this article Home School with Connections Academy: A New Approach to Public School - for FREE