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Homesteading and HomeschoolingHomesteading and homeschooling go hand in hand. After all, you want to be self reliant in every other aspect of your life. So why hand your children over to someone else to educate?But there are plenty of other ways homesteading and homeschooling go together. Here are some good reasons why you should consider educating your children at home. Raising Up IndividualsLet's say you submit a report at work and your co-worker trashes it. Or say you wear blue jeans to church and a fellow parishioner takes you to task. It not only ruins your day, you're likely to hide under a rock for a week.Now imagine what it's like to be a child with peers ready to attack you for...anything, from the clothes you wear, to a blemish on your chin, to a lisp. Children are unbelievably cruel, and unchecked, peer pressure will rub out every ounce of individuality your child has. 
But if you pursue homesteading and homeschooling, your child will have the freedom to be himself - in the safety of your homestead.
Greater CreativityBeing in a school setting - with bells ringing on the hour, children chattering and all the hustle and confusion - leave children with little time for quiet and reflection. An experienced homeschooler once told me that children - and boys especially - need sandbox time, alone time, and lots of it, to create, think things through and just plain zone out.Pursue homesteading and homeschooling, and your children will get that time, and be more creative for it. A Better Quality EducationMany school classrooms have twenty children or more, which means teachers have little time to spend on each child individually. Your child will be lucky if he can get 20 minutes of individual attention from a teacher a day - while spending eight hours or more at school.In a homesteading and homeschooling setting, however, you can easily spend an hour a day with your child and cover all the subjects he would pursue at school, while giving him far better attention and education. Then he can spend the rest of the day pursuing his own projects or helping with chores. Raising Up a Self Reliant GenerationBy watching you pursue self reliance, your children will learn they can do many things themselves as well - one of the best lessons they can learn through homesteading and homeschooling. Imagine raising up a generation of youth who are like the men and women in Colonial days, able to do amazing things despite their lowly birth. There is no telling what that generation could do!Other Helpful ResourcesLiving Books are books that bring all sort of subjects - even non-fiction topics - to life through enthralling writing. To learn more about teaching your children through great literature, visit Homeschool Curriculum for Life.If you are considering homeschooling, but don't know how to get started, check out this step by step guide on Homeschool by Design.com. |
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