Why Homeschool Children?

Series Summary

Home education is a great alternative to public and private schooling. Prior to 1852, there was no compulsory schooling law enforced and most children received their early education at home. Throughout the history of civilization there have been movements in homeschooling and early education. The most modern movement of homeschooling began in the 1960s and 1970s when Ray and Dorothy Moore, professional education workers, began to question the validity of early education. There are millions of children being educated at home and hundreds of thousands more worldwide.

In this free video series, Matt Nisjak teaches you how to give the gift of reading to your children. You will learn expert homeschooling or tutoring tips for teaching young children to read. Matt shows you how to start homeschooling, how to get and make supplies, and how to organize. You will learn how to teach the alphabet, handwriting the letters, phonics, sounding out words and letters, and consonant blends. Matt will also show you how to make your own books, teach punctuation, and use flashcards. It is all here!

Video Transcript

"Why homeschool? There are tons of great reasons. One of the most important ones I can think of is that that's how people have been teaching their children all throughout history. It wasn't until the 1850s that public schooling really began to take off in America. But until then, children learned at home, it was natural, it worked and they got far more important. Even today, even in a really school that has a very low teacher/student ratio, the teacher has to divide their time between 10, 15, 20 students. Just taking 1 hour a day to give your child one on one attention can make the largest difference in the world in their education. And study show that when children learn one on one that they can be taught in 1/3 of the time. So that means if a tradition school day is 6 hours, in just 2 hours, 2 hours a day, your child can learn better, can become more confident and can excel in all his or her studies far better than most traditional school settings. So those are the reasons; history, the one on one factor, and the time factor which allows much more time for other types of education."