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?

Nay-sayers will tell you that besides being “unqualified,” teaching a child is too difficult. The thought of having to teach 18-20 fiva and six year olds several subjects in one day is what I find even more difficult. Teaching one child to read is not difficult; as teaching 18-20 children is. You can do it!

The fact that children need socialization is another argument you might hear if you’re trying to decide if you want to homeschool. I’m not sure I would want my children to learn all the things they learn at school. Many lessons are learned as the result of being with other children rather than by the teacher.

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

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.