How does homeschooling affect parents?

    We can all agree that homeschooling is on the rise, and it’s becoming more accepted as an option for traditional schooling, especially in this time of Covid – 19 pandemic. At the same time, we can’t hide some of the benefits that come with home-teaching. But, how do parents cope with homeschooling?

    Sure, there were days when most parents felt confident teaching their children within an hour or two a day, more so when they were in elementary schools. And that was an easy task! But what happens when you have to take a better part of the day teaching your child?  

    Oh! That can be one hell of a duty, especially when you have to juggle teaching with family duties and work. In other words, deciding to homeschool means you take the responsibilities of both a teacher and administration. All of which, you’ll have to schedule and implement lessons, arrange for trips, and other school-student motivating activities. However, finding time for all the responsibilities can be overwhelming and stressful.

    But, don’t worry! In this article, we’ve covered common challenges parents face while homeschooling, plus how you can cope with different situations if you find yourself in them. 

    But first, let’s get to understand homeschooling. 

    Homeschooling is not much different from other schooling models like the public and private schools or charter schools. They both offer various opportunities for children to acquire new information, skills and harness their interests.

    By simple definition, homeschooling is home education where parents and guardians control what children learn when they learn and how they learn. And that includes their online communication and interactions.

    Before we discuss some of the challenges you’re bound to face as a homeschooling parent, here are some of the positive impacts homeschool has on you and your child.

    Benefits of homeschooling

    1. Provides extra family times

    Imagine a situation where your child takes months in school; then they have a break of a week or two weeks. You’ll have minimal time with your child. But that’s not the case with homeschooling. Home education allows you to bond and build a relationship with your child. 

    Besides, it gives a more direct role in your child’s learning and growth. Also, you can have the satisfaction of watching your child develop skills or mature in ways that align with your values of goals.

    1. Offers different path for your child’s socialization

    Suppose you’re worried about peer pressure, bullying, and social ridicule that your child will face in traditional schooling. In that case, homeschooling provides the best alternative. With homeschooling, your child doesn’t have too much exposure to peer pressure and victimization, among other adverse socialization effects. 

    Unlike the public or private schools where there is pressure for your child to fit or achieve certain perceived levels of social status, homeschooling offers an ambient learning environment with no social profiling. There’s no bullying, and much better, your child’s values and decisions are never defined by his/her peers.

    Other benefits are:

    • Parents can adapt teaching techniques that facilitate their child’s learning ways.
    • You can create a flexible schedule which is not possible for those in public schools.

    Now, let’s shed some light on the difficulties that parents face while home teaching their children.

    Challenges of homeschooling

    1. Inadequate time

    It would be tough to keep priorities in check for homeschooling parents. As a teacher, parent, and administrator at the same time, you’ll have so many balls in the air. Still, to ensure your child gets a quality education, you’ll have to invest too much time and effort.

    For instance, you have to plan school time events and the teacher-administrative work like preparing for exams and testing, plus juggling family responsibilities. Sure, you probably get tired and stressed up. Worse, you’ll have to do all the activities every day. That means less time each day for yourself. Not even well for your health.

    1. Role change

    Jumping from being a parent to a teacher is one common and tricky part of homeschooling. So, what happens to the playful, funny, and cuddling parent when it’s time for lessons?

    Sure, it can be a delicate balance to be a very strict teacher at one time, then the next moment a funny joking parent. However, it’s your responsibility as a homeschooling parent to ensure your child pays attention to their work. Therefore, you must find a balance between managing your parenting-teaching duties. Otherwise, either of your relationships will be in jeopardy. 

    Dealing with child’s isolation

    With homeschooling, your child will most probably have limited exposure to social life due to less interaction with large groups like traditional public and private schools.

    In other words, your kids won’t have as many opportunities to interact with other children. So how do you go about that? Arrange meetings with other parents and organize playing activities to help your child form bonds and interact with other children of their age. This will help your child make friends with other home-schooled peers.

    Limited learning resources

    Is your home well-equipped like regular schools? I mean, are you able to provide every material that can be used to facilitate your child’s learning processes? This is a common challenge most parents are facing.  

    It can sometimes be hard to get all the necessary equipment for a lesson. Let’s take an example of classes where your child is expected to do some practical subjects such as physics or chemistry. You can sure fail to provide all the chemicals needed. After all, it’s a home, not a school. 

    Besides, your home may also lack all facilities like exam or quiz software to help you create exams, sports facilities or enough playgrounds for exercise. Therefore, it means you would have to spend vast amounts on learning materials that might not be convenient for all parents.

    It’s hard to maintain patience.

    Amongst the challenges of homeschooling is the fact that you may lose patience while teaching your child. How’s that? With the several parenting and teacher duties, some parents may be impatient, especially when the child is a slow learner. 

    Besides, most parents won’t find the time to be around the children the whole day. Therefore, it would be hard for parents to restrain their anger or remain patient with struggling learners. The chances are that the children will become restless or behave badly when they realize that their parents are overbearing.

    Conclusion.

    Homeschooling inevitably has several benefits attached to it. However, most parents will face some challenges such as inadequate time to prepare and conduct lessons, juggling between teaching and parental responsibilities and inadequate learning resources. Once you learn what homeschooling entails in this article, you can make an informed decision on whether that’s what you need or you are better off with traditional school set ups. 

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