How to Home School Your Child - Encouraging Key Skills and Talents

Public schools are getting better about teaching life skills and encourage specific talents. However, this is best accomplished in a home school setting. You will find that as you let your child learn things that they are interested in, they begin to flourish and develop skills and talents that will serve them well throughout life.

Organization

Public school teachers have their hands full teaching their many students basic skills. They can encourage organization skills, but do not have the time to enforce them. As a homeschooler, you can teach your child these skills better and more thoroughly. Organization skills are important to learn and will help children stay focused which in turn will help them succeed in college, jobs, and life in general.

Life Skills

Children in public schools are often memorizing information without being given a reason or purpose for the task. As a homeschooler, you can help your child understand why their lessons are important by helping them find actual applications in real world situations. You can teach them how to budget, how to make purchases, and how to make meal plans and grocery lists. You can teach them how to write business letters, about credit, and other personal business matters. You can teach them how to apply science skills to understanding more about their own health, children, and what comes with that. As your child begins to understand how these things are applicable to daily life as an adult, they will be much more receptive and likely to retain the information after the schooling is over.

Developing Talents

One of the best things about homeschooling is that you can give your child one on one attention, including learning about their individual interests and talents. Unlike public school teachers, you will have the ability to teach your child the things they most want to learn. This can include any number of additional subjects that are not allowed for in public school. For example, while your child is learning about history, they may become interested in sociology, history, archeology, or other types of science not generally taught until the college level. This puts them in prime position to make long term choices such as types of careers and college majors.

This is an excerpt from the book:How to Home School Your Child and Develop a Well Trained Mind