Everyone who decides to homeschool their children will run into at least one person, maybe more, that tell them they shouldn’t homeschool. The decision to homeschool, isn’t an easy one to make, and often isn’t popular. However, the choice in how your child is educated is entirely up to you, so you need to decide ahead of time how you will deal with homeschooling nay-sayers.

Regardless if you have a Bachelor of Arts in Education or not, one of the quintessential arguments of a homeschooling nay-sayer is that you’re not qualified to teach your own child. I say poppy-cock to this argument! You have already been teaching your child since birth, if you’re a parent. Why wouldn’t you or your spouse be qualified to teach your child how to read or do math, if you could teach them how to talk, walk, and use the restrooms themselves?

It is said by nay-sayers that teaching a child is too difficult and that we are unqualified to do it. What is found to be more difficult is the thought of having to teach 18-20 young children several subjects all in one day. It is a difficult job; teaching one child to read is not. It can be done!

Another argument you might hear if you’re trying to decide if you want to homeschool is that the children need socialization. Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I want my children to learn all of the things they learn at school. Of course, all of the lessons aren’t given by the teachers. Many are learned as the result of being with other children.

To this argument, I say that 95% of the children in public schools are less socialized than homeschooled children. Homeschooled children can deal with their peers and can carry on intelligent conversations with people of all ages. Public schools are artificial and create not true to life societies. It just doesn’t happen, and it won’t happen, that there won’t be a time at any point in your life that you’re not going to deal with people of all ages.

You will most likely hear comments along the way of researching the possibility of homeschooling your child. It is okay if you don’t know everything that you’re told you should know. Take it as a learning lesson right along side your child. Since you want the best for your child, you will be giving them the opportunity to concentrate on subjects that they are interested in learning, and learning at their own pace.