Home schooling

Homeschooling is a progressive movement around the country and the world, in which parents choose to educate their children at home instead of sending them to a public or private school. Families choose to homeschool for a variety of reasons, including dissatisfaction with the educational options available, different religious beliefs and the belief that children are not progressing within the traditional school structure.

with homeschooling Parents have the opportunity to:

1.Determine the curriculum and their children’s schooling schedule

2.Demonstrate to their children that education is fun

3.Create strong bonds with their children

4.Adapt teaching methods best suiting how their children learn

5.Spend extra time with their children on difficult concepts and move ahead after children master a subject or concept

6.Create a flexible schedule not possible for children enrolled in public school

7.Provide religious and ethical instruction for their children

8.Shelter children from school violence, drugs, and other negative behaviors children in public schools frequently encounter

9.Provide their children with the personal interaction that teachers in large classrooms are not able to provide

10.Assist their children during adolescence and other trying times

however home schooling may as well pose a number of disadvantages such as the obligatin of parents to:

1.Be around their children all day long. This can be difficult when children become restless and misbehave

2.Restrain anger and remain patient when children struggle with learning

3.Effectively handle the difficulties of moving at a slower pace than public school instruction

4.Spend large amounts of money on books and other learning materials

5.Constantly adapt to be effective teachers

6.Constantly motivate their children

7.Spend time reviewing numerous curriculum programs up to their standards and best suiting their children’s learning needs

8.Spend more time finding playmates and friends for their children in similar circumstances

lets now look at one of the best examples of a kenyan parent who has strictly ventured into home schooling.

Ekko dyda who is a famous music artist is a proud father of two lovely kids, am blessed and keep it real.His hard work and efforts has definitely seen the lovely family through a lot and on this feature we get to understand why the couple chose to home school their kids.

On an interview conducted by eve woman., eko dyda gave an answer to his decision to homeschool his kids that stated, “My wife and I decided that public school and private did not work for us because we want to be present in our kids’ lives, and we did not want other people raising our kids. Plus, we believe that how school is structured these days turns children into robots who cannot do anything without asking the teacher or even simply reason.

We want our kids to be independent thinkers, to be able to reason and to know that they can chart their own destiny that they do not have to follow what everyone else is doing. We hope to home-school them until Campus if possible!”

The fact that the two boys are also singers is said to have contributed to the homeschooling as they need to be available for shows.

in another interview conducted by media max eko dyda stated his reasons as well stating, “Homeschooling also gives me more time to inculcate the right values. In school, there is a high chance that they may adopt the values of their friends, which may be misleading,”

Besides, it also gives him an opportunity to nurture their talents instead of only emphasising on academics. But child psychologist, James Mbugua, says how parents are presently raising their children has got everything to do with how they are turning out.

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