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Is Secular Home Schooling Good For Your
Child?
Many people, of all walks of life, have adopted home schooling;
the reasons vary vastly and a generalization cannot be made.
There are approximately 2% of US children who follow home
schooling today and the numbers are increasing.
Secular Home Schooling
Secular home schooling is basically schooling left to the
child’s interests based learning; usually such practices are
followed by communities that have strong religious beliefs and
want to live in a closer bond with their children and their
values in order to teach them their beliefs.
The Benefits of Secular Home Schooling Are:
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Creating a great bond with one’s
children as they grow up
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Allowing the child to freely express
his/her desires and aptitude for learning what
he/she has the strongest interest for
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Traditional values and beliefs stay
intact
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Safety and educational
control
The Disadvantages of Secular Home
Schooling:
- Often when you let the child do what he/she
chooses it will end up in nothing; children don’t
particularly enjoy studying or reading so that may
end up with the child neglecting and not acquiring
the much needed knowledge to survive in today’s
world.
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Not being able to deal with the outside
world will lead to confinement in the community
the child grew up which will limit the child’s
growth in the society.
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One does not always get his/her own way
in day-to-day life; a concept lost on a child who
was left to do what he or she wanted since
childhood.
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By not having any real education to
prove with a diploma a job in the real world
would be next to impossible.
Secular home schooling has many more
disadvantages then advantages and a child will see them
sooner or later; however some parents still practice it
driven by their beliefs and community that they live in.
This is often found in rural areas, in not highly
educated families with strong religious background; most
of these parents do not mean to harm their children but
they strongly believe in their hearts that they are
offering them the very best in life by not exposing them
to the outside world.
Getting in touch with nature and the simple things is
absolutely essential and none of us should ever miss out on
that but education is the very essence of life without which
one will not fully understand the value of life.
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