Home Education Today

Homeschooling is a parent’s decision to assume the sole responsibility for a child’s education. Homeschooling is establishing a personal education program for a child’s success in life based on the child’s individual abilities. Homeschooling is providing the knowledge and skills necessary for a child to become a responsible, contributing member of society. Homeschooling is different from schooling because the parent decides what constitutes a solid education and how to effect that learning. Homeschooling is a different way of life.

There are many different ways to homeschool. Homeschoolers seek out resources to meet the learning needs and styles of a child. They may be … structured (conducting a traditional school program at home using formal education) or eclectic (mixing of traditional and unschooling methods for education) or unschoolers (following child-led interests without the use of formal curriculum or coercion).

Start by thinking about what defines an education. Educate yourself by reading about homeschooling, talking to homeschoolers, seeking out support groups, finding what is already available in your community, understanding your state’s home education laws.

Decide how to implement a home education program and then you tailor it to your child. If you can’t teach your child about a particular subject, find someone who can or use the Internet or a cyberschool or buy curriculum or enroll in classes at area museums or institutes, or homeschool co-ops, or go to the library, watch videos and dvds, read books, utilize opportunities at area parks, community colleges, and so on.

You must be committed to finding a way to educate your child. Homeschoolers use any venue possible deemed appropriate to further a child’s education. Creativity, imagination and perserverance are homeschooling characteristics. It’s your choice.

That’s what homeschooling is – a choice to raise and educate your child in the way that you as a parent believe is best.