Schedule Flexibility
As long as you have decent time management skills, the flexibility in your child’s school schedule can be another great advantage of homeschooling. This doesn’t mean you just teach whenever you and your child want. You definitely want an actual schedule to follow. If you do not, your child will surely suffer and not learn all that is needed in the academic school year.
What this does mean though is that you can schedule classes to start later in the morning, or early if both of you are early morning people (as I and my son are – but not my daughter). Some people just perform better at different times of the day.
This also means if your child participates in an outside activity, be it sports, music, theater, etc, you can adjust their academic schedule around this activity.
Another way in which schedule flexibility comes into play is if you decide to take a field trip to learn more about a subject. And while on that field trip, you can explore deeper things your child finds interesting – thus further increasing your child’s thirst for knowledge. You are just not kept to such a rigid structure as your child would be in public school. The structure is yours to control.
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