Is Secular Home Schooling Good For Your Child?

Many people, of all lifestyles, have adopted home schooling; the reasons vary vastly and a generalization cannot be made. There are approximately 2% of US children who participate in 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:

• Creating a great bond with one’s children as they grow up
• Allowing the child to freely express his/her desires and aptitude for learning what he/she has the strongest interest for
• Traditional values and beliefs stay intact
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 than 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.