Top Ten Types of Parents Who Should Homeschool
1. Parents who love crafts. Children love getting messy and expressing their creative side with paste, paper and string. The sky is the limit on the artistic fun you can have together at home.
2. Parents who hate crafts. There is no need to be artsy with your children at home for them to have a successful education. You can outsource, the library, an art class, VBS. One of the home-school mom's I admire most, never did a craft with her children, yet astonishingly, most of them grew up to be incredibly artistically gifted. Leave room for God to work people. He can do it.
3. Parents who like to cook. Being home with your children allows countless time for making meals from scratch. You have so much time at home you may even start making your own probiotic foods, large batches of homemade bread, or cauldrons of soup to give away to passersbyers.
4. Parents who hate to cook. You have your kids at home. They are supposed to learn. Make them cook. Call it "real life skills" training and you've got one subject you can check off the list. You may have a very messy kitchen, and you may eat some unusual things (like spaghetti soup where the cook forgot to drain the water from the spaghetti before the sauce was added) but, hey, you won't have to cook.
5. People who are patient. If you are filled with patience, you will need it for home educating your children. They don't always listen the first time, they are not excited about spelling words or math recitation. You can call upon your deep well of patience to calmly guide them through all the academic and character training hurdles you face.
6. People who are not patient. Patience is a fruit of the Spirit. That means God wants to grow more of it in our lives through the indwelling of his presence. What better chance for that than being surrounded by small, irrational beings, who you are responsible for training, who refuse to listen to what you say and often do things just to irritate you?
7. People who like to stay home. Homeschooling allows you to enjoy the luxury of staying in your pajamas as much as you like. You can go for days without even darkening your front door. With the advent of Amazon Prime, it is now no longer even necessary to leave the house for school supplies. Homebodies rejoice!
8. People who hate to stay at home. Homeschooling is great because it allows you to be the master of your universe, so to speak. You can design your curriculum to be such the word "home" doesn't even fit in homeschooling. There are co-ops to join, field trips to explore, nature studies to be had, You can even learn in the car on your way with educational materials on CD.
9. People with large disposable incomes. Homeschooling can be spendy, like any part of parenting. There are gadgets to buy, fancy books to acquire and myriads of math manipulatives. You can buy memberships to museums, pay for lessons, or hire a tutor for your children. There are lots of ways you spend that pesky extra money when you educate your children at home.
10. People who are short on dough. Now is the greatest time to be home-schooling. The internet and your local library are two free resources that are limitless in the options they offer for educating your children. You can find many field trips that are free and open to homeschoolers. You can join a co-op, or community like Classical Conversations, and tutor a class to offset the cost of joining. Heck, you can even enlist your children to help you start a home business and generate extra income, that way you can come out ahead!
I hope you were able to find yourself somewhere on this list. Then you will know that you are uniquely predisposed to be a great homeschooling parent.
2. Parents who hate crafts. There is no need to be artsy with your children at home for them to have a successful education. You can outsource, the library, an art class, VBS. One of the home-school mom's I admire most, never did a craft with her children, yet astonishingly, most of them grew up to be incredibly artistically gifted. Leave room for God to work people. He can do it.
3. Parents who like to cook. Being home with your children allows countless time for making meals from scratch. You have so much time at home you may even start making your own probiotic foods, large batches of homemade bread, or cauldrons of soup to give away to passersbyers.
4. Parents who hate to cook. You have your kids at home. They are supposed to learn. Make them cook. Call it "real life skills" training and you've got one subject you can check off the list. You may have a very messy kitchen, and you may eat some unusual things (like spaghetti soup where the cook forgot to drain the water from the spaghetti before the sauce was added) but, hey, you won't have to cook.
5. People who are patient. If you are filled with patience, you will need it for home educating your children. They don't always listen the first time, they are not excited about spelling words or math recitation. You can call upon your deep well of patience to calmly guide them through all the academic and character training hurdles you face.
6. People who are not patient. Patience is a fruit of the Spirit. That means God wants to grow more of it in our lives through the indwelling of his presence. What better chance for that than being surrounded by small, irrational beings, who you are responsible for training, who refuse to listen to what you say and often do things just to irritate you?
7. People who like to stay home. Homeschooling allows you to enjoy the luxury of staying in your pajamas as much as you like. You can go for days without even darkening your front door. With the advent of Amazon Prime, it is now no longer even necessary to leave the house for school supplies. Homebodies rejoice!
8. People who hate to stay at home. Homeschooling is great because it allows you to be the master of your universe, so to speak. You can design your curriculum to be such the word "home" doesn't even fit in homeschooling. There are co-ops to join, field trips to explore, nature studies to be had, You can even learn in the car on your way with educational materials on CD.
9. People with large disposable incomes. Homeschooling can be spendy, like any part of parenting. There are gadgets to buy, fancy books to acquire and myriads of math manipulatives. You can buy memberships to museums, pay for lessons, or hire a tutor for your children. There are lots of ways you spend that pesky extra money when you educate your children at home.
10. People who are short on dough. Now is the greatest time to be home-schooling. The internet and your local library are two free resources that are limitless in the options they offer for educating your children. You can find many field trips that are free and open to homeschoolers. You can join a co-op, or community like Classical Conversations, and tutor a class to offset the cost of joining. Heck, you can even enlist your children to help you start a home business and generate extra income, that way you can come out ahead!
I hope you were able to find yourself somewhere on this list. Then you will know that you are uniquely predisposed to be a great homeschooling parent.
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