Written by Chi Alpha Crusaders | June 15 2007

If you asked a room full of homeschooling moms and dads why they chose to homeschool, you would probably get so many answers that your head would spin. The reasons are as numerous and varied as the clouds in the sky.

Here are just a few reasons to homeschool:

• You have the opportunity to choose the curriculum your child will be studying; enabling you to teach him about the world he lives in from a Christian perspective.
• You have the joy of spending much time with your child and actually knowing him…really knowing him.
• Teaching your children at home allows them to have a childhood, to get out and play, to be free from the restrictions placed on their peers who are not homeschooled.
• A homeschooled child spends his time learning from the environment around him and discovers the joy of learning without the busy work and waiting in line experienced in a school setting.
• You can instruct your child at his own pace, much like a Montessori school, allowing the opportunity for him to move ahead in one subject or spend extra time where needed in another. This ensures that there will be fewer gaps in your child’s education.

Should you homeschool? Definitely, if you have prayerfully considered whether it is the Lord’s will for your family. Homeschooling is not a decision to be made lightly, however. It takes a great deal of time and effort and can often isolate you from your friends who do not homeschool. Family members often think you are crazy for even considering such a thing.

Homeschooling is not a voyage to begin because you are running from something or because you think you can control life and how your children perceive it. If your intentions of homeschooling are to isolate your children from worldly influences, then you have the wrong idea of homeschooling. In fact, that is the wrong idea of life as a Christian. First, the world is even in the church if you go to church with people who work outside of the home and children who go to public school. Remember, we are to make a difference in the world and the only way we can accomplish that is to get out there among the lost and begin the work God has placed us here to do.

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Written by Chi Alpha Crusaders | June 14 2007

You may feel like going to a homeschool convention is either not necessary or too overwhelming. Do not miss this valuable experience. Every year in May, the GHEA hosts a convention that provides seminars on homeschooling. Publishers and providers of homeschool materials have booths at the convention. There is also a convention in July. More information can be found at www.ghea.com.