Each year homeschooling grows by 7 to 15%. Currently, almost 2 million children are being homeschooled. These children are doing well on standardized tests, being accepted at colleges and going on to become reliable adults.

This may be enough information to win you over to homeschooling. However, there are also a lot of pros and cons that you probably have not yet anticipated. In order to help those parents who are still considering whether or not they should homeschool their child, here is a list of pros and cons for you to think about:

1.Homeschool children have the freedom to study and learn whatever they want. This does not mean that the basics are not covered, but they are covered at different ages, depending upon the child's ability, maturity and interests.

2.Homeschooling parents have a lot of freedom because their life no longer revolves around school hours, homework and the school calendar.

3.The typical school day includes peer pressure, competition, boredom and bullies. This has a particularly bad effect on girls who attend middle school in the public school system, but these things have no effect upon those girls who are homeschooled throughout middle school. This is because homeschoo children are able to dress, act and think however they like without worrying about peer pressure.

4.Homeschooling allows families to have a lot more time to foster living bonds between each other. This is especially beneficial to teens as well as to children who are demonstrating rebellious and destructive behavior.

5.Homeschooling families also have the ability to work through challenging obstacles and transitions together. This is because homeschooling can provide a stabilizing factor in your otherwise mixed up life.

6.Studies have shown that rest is important for children's emotional and physical well-being. This is why early morning classes can be so detrimental to children who are not morning people. However, whenever you homeschool you can live by whatever schedule works best for you and your children.

7.In numerous public school classrooms less than one hour per day is actually spent in actual learning and thus children have to do a lot of homework each night. Homeschool children do not spend time doing busy work, nor do they have homework to do. In fact, the work that a public school child does in a few weeks, homeschool children are able to do in only a few hours.

While this definitely is not comprehensive, it definitely gives you a look at the pros and cons of homeschooling. There is one other great benefit though... Whenever you need a hug, your homeschool child is always there to give you one.