| Home Schooling, also known as home education, is | | | | or her aggression or hostility, which may lead him |
| defined as the education of children at home, | | | | or her to act out and resort to violence, |
| generally by parents or guardians instead of in a | | | | endangering the safety of other children. |
| public or private school. It provides children with a | | | | Home Schooling as the Solution |
| different learning environment rather than that in | | | | Studies have shown that children who are home |
| public schools or private schools. | | | | schooled are more socially and emotionally |
| Violence in schools has been dominating the | | | | adjusted compared to children who go to private |
| headlines lately. More and more parents fear for | | | | or public schools. Children who are home schooled |
| the life, safety and health of their children. Home | | | | have stronger ties with their family and feel more |
| school seems to be a better alternative than | | | | secure because they know that they have their |
| sending children to school where they may | | | | family's support. This gives home schooled children |
| become the victim of school violence. | | | | more confidence to think and act without |
| Damaging Effects of Preschool | | | | subjecting themselves to peer pressure. |
| In a study conducted by the University of | | | | Home schooled children learn from the people that |
| California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, proof | | | | they trust and with whom they have the closest |
| was gathered on the fact that children who spent | | | | ties to their parents. This encourages them to |
| more than six hours in preschool had difficulty | | | | open their minds without the restrictions imposed |
| with respect to cooperation, sharing and | | | | on them in a classroom setting. They not only |
| participating in classroom activities, while children | | | | learn what they are supposed to from their |
| who remained at home with their parents prior to | | | | academic lessons, they also learn about real life |
| starting school showed no difficulty whatsoever. | | | | because they get to learn in a real setting and not |
| According to a Harvard Longitudinal Study, children | | | | in an artificially controlled environment like that in |
| who went to daycare centers were shown to | | | | classrooms. The end result is that these home |
| have inability to form psychological attachments | | | | schooled children learn to resort to patience and |
| later in life. Another study showed that the time | | | | reason rather than aggression. They are better |
| spent by children in daycare was directly | | | | socialized since they interact with different people |
| proportional to the likelihood of their becoming | | | | other than those in their own age group and they |
| disobedient, defiant and aggressive by the time | | | | are more emotionally secure compared to children |
| they reach kindergarten. | | | | who learn in a classroom setting. |
| The conclusion that can be derived from these | | | | It is not difficult to see that home schooling may |
| studies is disturbing. Children who attend | | | | be one of the solutions to curbing violence in |
| preschools or go to daycare centers instead of | | | | schools. Parents who can afford to spend more |
| remaining at home with their parents suffer | | | | time at home with their children should consider |
| serious problems with social and emotional | | | | home schooling as an alternative method of |
| development. This leads to aggression, hostility, | | | | instruction considering the fact that children who |
| and eventually violent behavior as they grow | | | | are home schooled grow into socially and |
| older. This may be one of the reasons of violence | | | | emotionally mature people, who in turn become |
| in schools. A child who is socially and emotionally | | | | assets to the community. |
| underdeveloped may have difficulty controlling his | | | | |