what are the main challenges of homeschooling?

[NSH]

I have one child who has struggled in public schools while the other 2 have been doing fine. We have considered homeschooling from time to time, but feel like the lack of daily socialization would be a big set-back. Who has experiences on this topic? The other issue would be trying to separate the family life from the school life, it seems like it would be hard to create that division, kind of like the difficulty I experience with working from home. How do set that up right?

 

[Ben1445]

I have one child who has struggled in public schools while the other 2 have been doing fine. We have considered homeschooling from time to time, but feel like the lack of daily socialization would be a big set-back. Who has experiences on this topic? The other issue would be trying to separate the family life from the school life, it seems like it would be hard to create that division, kind of like the difficulty I experience with working from home. How do set that up right?

Schedule is the best way to separate the two.
I don’t think it is necessary to separate them. Education is just part of life. The purpose of it is to improve the rest of your life. Education is not an island to itself.
What are your expectations? Do your kids have homework now? It is reasonable to assign it when you homeschool. Class work shouldn’t be homework just because you are at home. It is just something to plan out before hand. The tendency to me seems to be that unsuccessful homeschoolers pass the responsibility of teaching to the computer and never look back. When before you relied on the teacher to evaluate your student and adjust teaching accordingly, you are now the teacher and should be engaged in daily evaluation of your students.
As far as socialization, I have never seen any issues with socialization that are not more related to the parents than the students. If you are an introvert who hides from contact with others, your child will be like you. If you are an extrovert and share every detail of the last weird fact you read, your kids will do the same. If you are hospitable, so will your children be. The best place to learn how to socialize is with your parents, not with random strangers who you happen to share a school bus ride with. If you feel like your kids don’t socialize well, invite a family over for dinner and teach them. (Not your family. Invite someone who you don’t usually have. The person at church who nobody talks to. Work your way through the church directory.) Take them with you to stores and show them by your actions how to be respectful and polite. They learn it watching you drive, watching your reactions to other drivers, how you treat others in the store, etc. If you don’t ever take them anywhere but just leave them in their room with books and video games, they will appear to have socialization problems. There are people in public schools who have these problems also.

 

[NSH]

Thanks for your thoughts. I agree that our kids are always acting like we do I will keep this perspective in mind.

 

[Marooncat79]

Schedule is the best way to separate the two.
I don’t think it is necessary to separate them. Education is just part of life. The purpose of it is to improve the rest of your life. Education is not an island to itself.
What are your expectations? Do your kids have homework now? It is reasonable to assign it when you homeschool. Class work shouldn’t be homework just because you are at home. It is just something to plan out before hand. The tendency to me seems to be that unsuccessful homeschoolers pass the responsibility of teaching to the computer and never look back. When before you relied on the teacher to evaluate your student and adjust teaching accordingly, you are now the teacher and should be engaged in daily evaluation of your students.
As far as socialization, I have never seen any issues with socialization that are not more related to the parents than the students. If you are an introvert who hides from contact with others, your child will be like you. If you are an extrovert and share every detail of the last weird fact you read, your kids will do the same. If you are hospitable, so will your children be. The best place to learn how to socialize is with your parents, not with random strangers who you happen to share a school bus ride with. If you feel like your kids don’t socialize well, invite a family over for dinner and teach them. (Not your family. Invite someone who you don’t usually have. The person at church who nobody talks to. Work your way through the church directory.) Take them with you to stores and show them by your actions how to be respectful and polite. They learn it watching you drive, watching your reactions to other drivers, how you treat others in the store, etc. If you don’t ever take them anywhere but just leave them in their room with books and video games, they will appear to have socialization problems. There are people in public schools who have these problems also.

Did it for several years

Keep school hours - school hours

Remember to educate w grace. We especially I were poor at this

Set expectations of excellence

You must keep them under moderate pressure for success

Don’t forget Bible

Don’t forget grace

Extra stuff. We did bowling, swimming, art classes, karatame, horses. All kinds of stuff

I know much more now to be more successful at it

Btw. It was NOT a total flop