| Falling out of favour in recent years, home | | | | parent or teacher is free to move at the pace of |
| schooling used to be considered a great way to | | | | the child, and can devote one hundred percent of |
| monitor and enhance your child's intellectual | | | | his or her attention to the intellectual needs of the |
| development. Theories about poor social | | | | child concerned, making for an overall more |
| development and emotional exposure led to a | | | | productive environment for the child. Another |
| downturn in the frequency of home schooling, | | | | advantage of home schooling is that it is more |
| despite the numerous educational advantages it | | | | flexible than traditional schooling, catering for the |
| can bring. By nurturing your child within the home | | | | needs of the child concerned rather than the |
| environment, learning and education can seem | | | | general needs of a class of children. If the child |
| more of a natural process, whereby your child | | | | has particular difficulties in any given area, these |
| gains the skills and knowledge required during the | | | | can be sourced and assisted promptly, without |
| course of his daily life. In this article we will | | | | having the burden of thirty other pupils to worry |
| consider further some of the advantages of | | | | about. By allowing the teacher to focus on |
| educating your child in your home, and why this | | | | teaching the pupil at his own pace, home schooling |
| form of education may be considered superior to | | | | creates a more flexible environment for |
| traditional schooling. One of the major advantages | | | | intellectual development, which can provide the |
| that comes with home schooling is the ability to | | | | child with a greater understanding of reason and |
| tailor education to the needs and stage of | | | | logic, as well as the basics of elementary |
| development of the child. In the classroom, there | | | | arithmetic and literacy. Home schooling seems to |
| is little in the way of individualised tuition and | | | | be losing popularity in recent years, despite the |
| bonding for most of the children with the | | | | fact that it still provides much academic and |
| authority figure, which can stint and hinder | | | | intellectual merit. Children educated in the home |
| development. Of course the child is exposed to a | | | | environment tend to be more attuned to life-long |
| more social environment, which is certainly | | | | learning, considering knowledge and information as |
| beneficial. The problem comes with the lack of | | | | important assets. Indeed, this form of education |
| direct tailored tuition, which can repress a child's | | | | allows the child to develop at his own pace where |
| intellectual potential. Secondly, regular schooling | | | | this may otherwise be restricted within the |
| cannot move at the same pace, nor can it move | | | | classroom environment. For these reasons, the |
| at the pace required for the student. A class of | | | | process of home schooling is particularly |
| pupils can only move as quickly as the slowest | | | | worthwhile, and something that should be a |
| pupils, which leaves many more developed | | | | consideration of parent everywhere, with the |
| students bored and lacking intellectual stimulation. | | | | means and ability to educate their own children. |
| With home schooling, on the other hand, the | | | | |