Free list of homeschool curriculum ! When you can’t find inspiration to keep your children home, read the top 6 reasons to keep your bundle(s) of joy home for good !
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1. It allows you to spend more time with your children.
Growing up I attended public school, to me the daily routine of going to school Monday through Friday from 7:30am-3:30pm was completely normal. I never once questioned the pattern of life. It may have been because my mother also believed this to be the only way to achieve the ‘American Dream’.
As I grew, the time spent away from my mother only seemed to grow right alongside me. She was able to leave me home alone or with family while she worked. Looking back now as an adult, I can see the great deal of work she had to do as an uneducated, non-citizen, single mother in this country. She worked diligently every day to provide for my basic needs until I married. I wish she would’ve had the means, possibilities and education to have known about homeschool and the time it would have given her to spend with me. But she didn’t, she was a hardworking woman whose priority was to put food on the table and I thank her for what she did accomplish.
Can I quickly let you know? If you are a single parent looking to homeschool, there are resources out there that can help you and teach you how to homeschool your children all while you hold down a job. Don’t believe me? Here is a link that has these types of resources: https://homeeducator.com/single-parent-homeschooling/
Take some time to google search ‘single parent homeschooling’ and you will find more resources that could help you get started.
Now that I am a mother, I see the huge sacrifice women make time and time again to be away from their children just to provide with physical necessities. In my mother’s case it was somewhat inevitable but for me and many mothers, it is definitely obtainable to spend extra hours of our day with our children. It happens so naturally.
Our children grow from one day to the next it seems, and this rises a question. Should we continue to spend hour after hour working, knowing our children grow day by day, week by week or should we sacrifice the few years our children are young to enjoy and to be part of their growth and learning for us to forever have lasting memories alongside them and them with us?
As for us, our family chose the pay cut. We get to spend fun times with our children, times that can never be redeemed.
Single parent homeschool resources: https://homeeducator.com/single-parent-homeschooling/
Google search ‘single parent homeschooling’ and you will find more resources that could help you get started.
2. Public school education is questionable.
In high school I dreamed of becoming a pediatrician or joining the Air Force, my grades reflected good enough to make it into college in order to pursue my career in the medical field but the education I received would soon play out in college and halt any hope I had in succeeding.
The first wall I hit was realizing I was not ready for college AT ALL, I was simply not at that level and had not been properly educated/trained to do it all on my own. I realized I was still very dependent on having a teacher or counselor do the work of applying and choosing classes for me, so I dropped out after just 1 and a half month. One of my closest friends in high school had been accepted to a nearby university and as she began her first year she realized how unprepared she was. (She was Valedictorian of our class) I think this speaks volumes on the level of education we received. the great news is she graduated and became a teacher. I did not graduate but I also became a teacher if you know what I mean! 😉 As for the rest of the majority of graduates in our class, many did not seek higher education simply because we were not trained well enough to accomplish anything more but to step into society as an average worker just as I had done after high school.
Now, we live in the same area where I attended public school, the chances of our children succeeding academically are not very high, this is why homeschool is the better option academically.
But, what if the school you are zoned to is a great school? My question to you is. Will your child’s education be tailored for him/her? The answer is probably, No.
Many parents don’t think about this, and honestly we are trained to not question the school system. A tailor made education is what every child needs to engage into what their interest are and engage into what they truly enjoy learning.
3. Avoiding indoctrination.
We have many rising issues in America as you may know and in recent years these issues have escalated to levels never seen before. As a conservative family we have many issues to try and evade from it affecting us and if we already have a hard time as is outside of the public school system, I could only imagine how it is living within the public school system day by day. Families stand in different spectrums and wide range of opinions concerning political topics, we will not state everything we agree or disagree with but simply want to be our children’s first and only educators of political matters and any other matters. We teach the WHAT and WHY we agree or disagree, all in an effort to educate our children according to the spiritual side of politics and family matters.
Is it possible for schools to indoctrinate without a parent’s consent? Maybe not in all school. But, here in Texas even as one of the most conservative states, we have seen our fair share of it.
Recently, a friend of mine shared a younger sibling of hers who attends elementary was asked by their parent to take a shower, her sibling then responded with “my body, my choice.” so, what are your children really learning about? Is it math, is it science or is it much more than that?
Is every school an indoctrinating facility? Absolutely not.
A good friend of mine (the teacher from earlier) who lives in Houston, TX shared what she has seen working inside the school system. In her own words “Here is what I can say about teachers in Houston. We are not given an agenda on “”indoctrination””. Our curriculum does not tell us to teach children children new pronouns. It does not tell us to teach racial divisive curriculum . All of these are straight up lies!! I can share any unit plan for 6-12 so you can look over and you will see this is not on our agenda. However, we are supposed to create an inclusive environment. I cannot discriminate a student based on their beliefs or sexual identity. But it is not our job to “indoctrinate”…” – good friend from Houston, Tx. Have teachers shared their personal perspective on such topics with students? Yes. But it’s not part of the state’s TEA curriculum/TEKS or agenda here in Texas, so why is it happening here and in countless of other schools across the country? We have to consider the world we live in today and know there is a greater force driving this indoctrination movement. Maybe it’s the government, maybe it’s society, or maybe it’s both?
To think that every school will carry this twisted agenda is simply not true. But the questions remains, at what point will they all?
We decided we wouldn’t take our chances because it may just happen as the Tuttle Twins parents.
4. Protecting your children from sexual content.
You may at this point of this blog know the values in which our family stand and you may or may not agree. Regardless of faith, there is on thing many parents agree on and that is protecting our children from early exposure to sexual content.
Last year, a woman by the name of Sherry Climmons went viral upon finding out her 8th grade daughter was being exposed to sexual content through literacy, article went on to say that books with rape and suicide were given to students to read without the consent of parents. To listen to the speech she presented unto the school board can be found here: Parent Confronts Richardson ISD Over Sexual Content in Jr High Reading – Dallas Express
And if we can all remember those days of public school, we can all attest to the early exposure to sexual conversations and jokes other children would make and other things we were exposed to. Can I tell you, it is much worse now, and has become much easier to access content from the comfort of their phones.
Sex, and puberty are topics that should be discussed by mature parents who will guide a child’s curiosity into truth and not into fantasy. By having a conversation with our children on the matter, we can help them develop a healthy understanding about sex and puberty as well as building a good parent and child relationship.
5. Homeschool gives you freedom with your time.
Free kind is the best kind! Homeschool gives you freedom. Freedom to do and go anywhere you desire at the time and day you choose. Your family trips no longer have to be planned during summer break. You have the option to go during fall, winter or spring time and make the most of the weather and of your attraction parks not being crowded. I have found that this freedom decreases stress by allowing our days to be flexible and making the most out of a sunny day.
Can anyone say?! No more days standing in line waiting for your child to be release from school!
6. Improve social interactions.
Should a 7 year old teach my 7 year old to socialize?
The truth is when a child is placed in an environment of different ages such as parents, siblings, aunts, and grandparents they learn to interact with all ages and learn the boundaries among every age. If we really think about it, God created the perfect circle for our children to thrive in even in the space of socialization, homeschool makes this possible for our children.