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10 big benefits of homeschooling your kids when you work from home #Parenting

by Vidya Sury April 26, 2019 14 comments
The benefits of working from home and homeschooling your kids

“So you’ve decided that homeschooling your kids is the best way to go?”

That was the shocked question another parent asked a friend of ours who has decided she wants to homeschool her kids. She did try day school for a few years but it just isn’t working for them. She arrived at the decision because she feels that she’ll do a better job, especially since she works from home. Of course, she’s talked to other parents who are homeschooling their kids.

Working from home and providing homeschooling are two things that work together really well and it’s fortunate that in today’s society, we have the opportunity to do both more easily than before. We did consider at one time for our son, but didn’t follow it up too seriously. If you’ve thought about either of these, there are many benefits that come from homeschooling, especially if you are working from home.

Many parents choose to teach their children in the comfort of their own home, rather than enroll them in school. With homeschooling, it’s the parent’s full responsibility to ensure that their child is given an education that will enable them to go on to have a successful career in whatever field of study they wish to go into.

Of course, there are arguments as to why homeschooling may not be a good thing; however, it’s certainly becoming more popular across the world.

So what are the benefits of homeschooling your kids and is it something that’s right for you and your child?

The benefits of working from home and homeschooling your kids

It’s One-On-One Tutoring

When in a classroom setting with 20-30 other children, the chances of your child or children getting one-on-one attention is fairly minimal. Then there is the problem of children who may cause trouble in class and therefore disrupt the rest of the classroom’s learning. The smaller the class, the more time a child gets to spend with the teacher, asking questions and getting help with something they’re struggling with. Homeschooling provides a unique opportunity where every bit of their learning is through one-to-one tutoring.

More Tailored to Their Educational Needs

One of the best things about homeschooling is that you may not necessarily need to teach your child every subject in the curriculum. Of course, it’s good to stay along the same lines, but with homeschooling, you can tailor the classes and subjects to what your child enjoys or is passionate about.

You can focus more on their needs, rather than give them a blanket education of all subjects like they’d have in a public or private school. Not everyone enjoys taking exams, and there’s a severe amount of pressure to get the right grades. With homeschooling, that’s something that doesn’t need to be part of the education at all and allows the child to learn without pressure.

There’s A Safer Learning Environment Provided

With homeschooling, it’s a much safer environment to learn in. As mentioned previously, there are often one or two troublesome children who’ll disrupt classes, and that can stop the rest of the class getting that education. What also comes with homeschooling is that your child won’t be exposed to teasing, bullying and negative peer pressure from the bad influences.

Of course the argument for this is that the child will learn about tackling real life; but then, there are plenty of other situations to teach them this through peer interaction meetings when part of a homeschooling community.

Builds A Closer Relationship Between Parent and Child

One of the greatest satisfactions of homeschooling is the relationship between parent and child. Parents who spend more time with their kids are able to watch them grow, and therefore you don’t miss out on those special moments throughout their childhood and their journey to adulthood.

It’s important to know some things though before you decide to homeschool your child or children.

Firstly, check what’s required to be able to homeschool within your state or location. Patience is important, especially as you are dealing with your child in an educational environment. You need to do your research and make sure it’s something you’re capable of doing and really want to do. You need to be certain that you will be able to teach your children the knowledge they need to pass any exams or tests where they can be graded by an educational body.

Homeschooling is also not for everyone so you may want to trial it out first and discuss it with your child before pulling them out of their current learning environment.the benefits of homeschooling your kids when you work from home

The environment is right, though. As more businesses offer flexible working, working from home has certainly become a more stable and secure option as a career. There’s now so much that you can do to work from home and along with homeschooling, it’s the perfect scenario to be able to do both. I’d be the first to endorse the benefits of working from home!

You Are Your Own Boss

When you have a career at home, you are effectively your own boss, and that can be really beneficial for some people. Everyone works differently and some just don’t like taking direction from others or having a boss themselves. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with that because if we all liked the same things, we’d be boring! So one of the benefits is that you are your own boss, so you decide how hard you want to work and what you want to achieve. You set your own goals and your own deadlines.

Choose Your Working Hours

Being your own boss also gives you the flexibility to choose your own working hours. This is really ideal if you decide to give homeschooling a go as you can work your job around your teaching. You also might want to take a holiday or finish a few hours earlier and guess what? You can, because you’re the boss! As most businesses these days are trying to offer flexible working hours, it’s no wonder that working from home has become a convenient option. Sure it takes discipline, but once you’ve had a taste of working from home, you’ll want to do it full-time.

There Are More Opportunities to Learn

Working from home can offer you an unlimited amount of opportunities, and you may have more hours in the day to take on something new. For example, how about getting some extra education and taking an online course? Some of the best NNP programs can be done online now, along with many other courses, relating to a variety of subject matters. So depending on what you decide to do from home to earn a living, having the ability to gain qualifications online can help you build your skill set and knowledge.

Your Earnings Could Rise

In any contracted job, you’ll have set hours, and the paycheck is likely going to remain the same. Perhaps you’ll be lucky to get a bonus or rise every so often. However, there’s probably a limit to what you can earn. When working from home, you get as much out as you put in and so depending on the work you do, your earnings could rise considerably.

For example, if you decide to set up an online shop, the more awareness and customers you bring to the shop, the more money you can make. The potential is endless and that can be exciting for many people as money certainly helps for things in life. There’s also the option of having multiple streams of income.

Doing Something You Love

Work satisfaction is something that can be hard to achieve. Of course, we all have our bad days, but you are lucky if you truly love your job and wake up every morning excited to go to work. One of the best perks of working from home is that you’re likely going to do something you love and if that’s the case, then it won’t even feel like work. As work takes up a majority of our time, it’s important we enjoy it. It can also have a big and positive impact on our mental health and wellbeing. Less stressed and more excited about what’s to come for each new day.

No More Commuting

If you live in the city or drive from your home to work, you’re commuting. And commuting can really suck. Whether that’s stuck in traffic for an hour or nestled under someone’s sweaty armpit on public transport. When working from home, you don’t have to do any of that and what’s more, is that you’ll save a lot of precious time and money that can both go to the more important things in life – your family. Very few people enjoy commuting, and the appeal wears off very quickly, so imagine not having to commute to get to work. The only travel you’ll be doing is from your bedroom to your office. Now that’s everyone’s idea of heaven!

A lot has changed, even in the past fifty odd years, so much so that it’s opened up opportunities that many older generations wouldn’t have dreamed would be possible in their lifetime. The allure of working from home is certainly attracting more and more people as new opportunities and careers become available.

Homeschooling is also becoming more accepted due to what is happening with the job industry as a whole. It’s changing and becoming more fluid, so it’s only a matter of time before the school curriculum will have to change and adapt to move with the times. Otherwise, it ends up becoming outdated and could harm the future generation’s ability to get the career they want.

If you’re thinking of either homeschooling or working from home, do your research and think about it: if it’s something that’s best for you. The worst-case scenario is that you try it and it doesn’t work. At least you tried, and that’s better than living with regret or what could have been.

When I see other parents making the decision to homeschool their kids, I think, given a chance, I’d love to do it now, even though I didn’t have the guts back then.

Have you considered homeschooling your kids?

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Ronel Janse van Vuuren May 1, 2019 at 1:44 pm

Valid points — especially the part about classes being disrupted by hooligans, taking away learning opportunities from the rest.

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Denawa Alberti November 20, 2019 at 9:02 pm

A lot of great points here! I know several people that home school their children and it seems to really work for them. I have considered it very very briefly but decided against it. I do believe there are many benefits to home schooling especially given the state of education these days, I think a few years back the concern was socialization with other kids. But now a days there are plenty of groups that are home schoolers and they take the kids on field trips and meetups so that really isnt an issue anymore. Great post!

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Leana Lourens November 21, 2019 at 11:16 am

I believe home schooling has its pros and cons. I would prefer my children to go to school because then they will be around other children and learn to socialize, but you can’t control things, whereas at home you are the teacher😊

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Julie November 21, 2019 at 11:47 am

We homeschool 3 out of our 4 children with another already having completed his studies. There are tons of benefits for homeschooling your child and there is a misconception that little to no socialization occurs. Our homeschooled children are incredibly social and attend activities with fellow homeschoolers on a daily basis. It does take a lot of time to plan work and the kids lives but it is certainly something that can be done.

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Nicole Steyn November 22, 2019 at 2:55 pm

This is a phenomenal idea! I love the idea of homeschooling while working from home. You most certainly have to be disciplined and organized too.I always wanted to be home schooled, but it wasn’t an option. Maybe the option will be open to my kids one day.

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Rajlakshmi November 22, 2019 at 3:29 pm

I have never given it much thought but going by your points, it does make sense to homeschool. I know a few instances when parents preffered homeschooling due to bullying. But, persobally I would still prefer a school. Both choices have pros and cons.
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Felicia Austin November 23, 2019 at 7:09 am

Vidya I swear you’re in my head a lot of the times lol 😂 we were just discussing this for when we move back to the states. I’m so glad I got to read this. But FRFR it’s like u have ESP sometimes lol 😆

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Lynne Huysamen June 7, 2021 at 6:56 pm

I considered homeschooling my kids a few years back but then decided against if for a few reasons. Oh I love that time when they are at school – peace and quiet at home for me to work. Selfish, maybe, but I really feel I’m a better mother when I can have that time to myself. My biggest concern with my kids was that they need social interaction with other kids. I feel that the school setting offers great benefits for kids.
Yes I can see that there are a lot of benefits to homeschooling and it would be amazing not to have to get up early every morning, especially in winter, but for us it is best to send them to school!

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Vidya Sury June 8, 2021 at 9:55 am

I agree with you, Lynne! We had the same thoughts when we finally decided that we may not be able to do justice to the homeschooling choice. The social interaction, especially, with other kids and group activities, trips, etc. Also, we did not know anyone else homeschooling their kids at that time so – sending him to school was the best choice we made. Yes, cannot deny it gives us time to take a breath and catch up with ourselves when they are away! Great to see you here, by the way!

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Susan David July 16, 2021 at 1:39 pm

I agree with your points; however, home schooling your children is not as easy as it sounds. You should have great knowledge regarding the subjects you are teaching. There are several other drawbacks of homeschooling. However, you can always opt for online learning. In this way, you can spend time with your children and they can learn from experts! Oxford Learning College is one of the world’s leading distance education providers.

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Richard Robbins July 30, 2021 at 10:23 pm

My wife and I have been working from home during most of our 18-year marriage, running ecommerce stores and blogging. When our oldest daughter was in 3rd grade, we decided to homeschool her and our other kids (now totaling 7!). We have not looked back!

Likely the biggest challenge we’ve seen with homeschooling and working from home is that the lines between work, school, and other activities are not clearly delineated. We often have to put a pause on things that are going on and specifically commit to having the kids spend the next hour or so doing their school work and letting me do what I need to do to run my businesses.

I’ve been able to involve my kids in doing things to earn money with our businesses as part of their homeschool curriculum.

Our family of 9 spends most of our time together in various aspects of learning, working, and otherwise spending time together. Having that environment has been a great blessing to all of us.
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Jason Holder August 10, 2021 at 2:04 pm

Our oldest daughter and our remaining kids (now numbering seven) began homeschooling in the third grade. It has never been the same! Working from home and homeschooling pose many challenges, especially because it is often unclear which is their primary focus. Sometimes, we have to take a break from the things we’re doing and commit to letting the kids do their school work for an hour or so while I take care of my businesses. As part of their homeschool curriculum, my kids earned money with our businesses.

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James Adams Williams September 6, 2021 at 1:28 pm

This is a great post and I completely agree with the concept of Homeschooling, especially in these times of pandemic. It’s becoming harder for children to learn as usual due to the pandemic since 2019. Above all both the idea of work from home and Homeschooling, you kids perfectly match these times. These have great benefits both for your child and you. The more you get children to involve actively in learning activities in times of School shutdowns, you child is going to perform much better than others who are not involved in daily learning activities. It’s a great post and keeps up the good work. Please post more content on work from home jobs and ideas to earn more.

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Ryan Shideler December 20, 2022 at 9:11 pm

Homeschooling and working from home have their challenges, and may not be right for everyone, but for my family, it’s been a wonderful success. Each day and week seem to be different, and it’s so very important to identify times throughout the day when it’s more work time and when you need to be more flexible to jump in and help with teaching or entertaining the younger kids. But like you were saying, being a part of your child’s learning is so very valuable, but the surprising thing to me was how our relationships started flourishing in being more a part of their learning. Thanks for the great post.

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