by Lokemun Magar

Created on: February 28, 2010   Last Updated: May 28, 2010

Homeschooling is an educational alternative to schooling. It is not a new concept, for schooling was actually borne out of the homeschooling concept. Back when children were first schooled, they did so in their homes. Subsequently, the monasteries started the first schools and secular schools were borne out of the same concept.

Homeschooling has never died, though. Many of the world's great people were homeschooled. Helen Keller was notably the most classic, having been diagnosed as a wild girl who could not be tamed. Her parents, however, did not give up finding a cure for her, and it was by God's grace that Anne Sullivan became her homeschool tutor, and discovered that this wild girl actually had a penchant for learning and discovering this black and silent world around her. Hand signals put her on the road to communication with the sighted and hearing world. She subsequently spoke, though not hearing her own voice, and became the first deaf blind to be awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree.

What then are good reasons for homeschooling your children? You might want to consider homeschooling your children for the following reasons:

Good reason 1: Your children have special needs and will not thrive in the mainstream in early education.

The example of Helen Keller paved the road of hope for many like her to have an education through homeschooling, and through schools that subsequently sprouted for the blind, deaf and mute. Having special needs qualifies your children for homeschooling, as they have needs that may not be well-looked into in a regular school.

Good reason 2: Your children have medical needs that disrupt their regular school terms.

Medical needs may also qualify your children for homeschooling, as frequent hospital stays may distrupt your children's schooling and trying to catch up with the class adds frustration to an already distraught child. Homeschooling medically unfit children allow them access to school as and when they are physically up to it, even if it is in the evenings after dinner. They are also freed of the need to explain their frequent absence, and their need to have special allowance to complete projects and hand them in much later than their classmates.

Good reason 3: Your husband has been posted abroad in a foreign land to work for two years, and you are not able to locate a school running the same curriculum as your children's those two years.

The nature of parents' occupations may call for a need for homeschooling.

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