Parents decide to educate their children at home for a wide variety of reasons. Yet all who make a decision to homeschool face questions and concerns at the outset. Sometimes taking that first step is the hardest.
What roadblocks have kept you from making the decision to educate your children at home? By addressing some of the common homeschooling issues your roadblocks will become pebbles under your feet!
Homeschooling Issues: Cost
How much does it cost to educate your children at home? How much do you want to budget? Sure, you can spend the cost of private school tuition per year in homeschooling expenses. But you can just as easily spend very little.
Homeschooling Issues: Higher Education
Worried that your children will have a hard time getting into college if you homeschool? Fear not!
Homeschooling Issues: Qualifications
Do you love your children with all of your heart? Are you willing to put the needs of your children before your own, including their educational needs? Then you’re qualified!
Homeschooling Issues: Socialization
As more and more parents choose to homeschool, the concerns by critics over this issue have been largely laid to rest.
Homeschooling Issues: Time
Education is all about learning to live, and homeschooling provides the time to cultivate life!
While I cannot tell you if educating at home is right for your family, I do know where you can go for an answer:
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 1:5
Further Reading
Answering the Critics
As homeschoolers, we all face a certain amount of criticism. When you swim against the tide you tend to develop a hard shell. Sometimes it may seem that a really smart comeback would be handy. Responding “Nanny-nanny-poo-poo! I’m right; you’re wrong!” might make you feel better but the long-term benefits are dubious.
The Benefits of Home Education (and what to do next)
Everything you need to know about home education along with resources to get you started.
Helps for New Homeschoolers Series
Thoughts — encouragement, pitfalls, and areas of focus — for those just starting out, from one who has finished.
Why Homeschool
More answers from the archives.
Additional Resources
100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids
Pretty much everything is covered here — “from fostering creativity and freedom to providing impressive educational outcomes.” Fee.org.
Homeschooling: A Growing Option in American Education
Brief look at homeschool outcomes from The Heritage Foundation.
Research Facts on Homeschooling
From the National Home Education Research Institute. Updated for 2024.
Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling is for the Future
We probably need to agree on a definition of unschooling. But the point is a very important one: we are in an imagination and passion driven age — a gig economy — where we need to learn to think for ourselves. “The bells and buzzers signaling when students could come and go, the tedium of the work, the straight lines and emphasis on conformity and compliance, the rows of young people sitting passively at desks while obeying their teachers, the teachers obeying the principal, and so on—all of this was designed for factory-style efficiency and order.”
