If you can read, you can homeschool your children. Therefore, I know if you are reading this, you can homeschool your children. Logic.
If you can read, then even if you don’t know much about a subject, you can learn along with your child.
Curriculum comes with a teacher’s guide that can lead you step by step in teaching the subject matter.
What about some of the tougher high school subjects? By that point, your child(ren) can read on their own and can do a lot of self-guided learning as well as get help from online sources or other people in their lives who are knowledgeable about the subject matter.
In order to homeschool your child(ren), there are some helpful things to have or at least be open to:
Humility – the ability to say that you don’t know something and will need to look it up, the ability to say you’re sorry when you are impatient with your child(ren), the willingness to grow in any and every area.
Patience – be willing to grow in patience. However patient you may be already, you will probably need to have more patience – with your children and also with yourself
Confidence – that you know your child better than other people, whether it’s the writer of the curriculum (so you might choose to skip things, not teach things a certain way, or take longer on some things, not being a slave to the time-table that is set by someone who doesn’t know your child or your family’s lifestyle) or a friend, neighbour, relative, or busy body (well-meaning or otherwise).
You don’t have to abound in these qualities, but you should be open to grow in them. And grow in them, you will! You will grow in so many other ways as well, including in your relationship with your children.
Educating your children is a really worth-while undertaking, and in my next post, I will list some advantages to educating your child(ren) at home.
