| You just spent eight hours making reports, filing | | | | approach in teaching, most children would be able |
| papers, fielding phone calls, and placating your boss | | | | to grasp the concept easier and faster. |
| at the office. | | | | Then again, the amount of time to be allotted in |
| When you get home, do you rest? Not really. | | | | home schooling will still vary depending on the |
| There's a dinner to prepare, stories to share with | | | | many factors that may affect the progress of |
| your husband, and doing homework with the kids. | | | | the teaching process. |
| Such a scenario is and will still be typical among | | | | Here is a list of some factors that should be |
| working mothers, who balance the countless | | | | considered in order to devise the proper amount |
| demands of career and home 24 hours a day, 7 | | | | of time needed in home schooling: |
| days a week. The problem with this is that the | | | | 1. Learning style of the children |
| children are the ones who are always at the losing | | | | There are instances wherein the children's learning |
| end. | | | | style might affect the time requirement in home |
| Why? | | | | schooling. For instance, if your child can learn |
| Because with parents, especially mothers, who | | | | things at a much faster rate, then you only have |
| are always busy with their work, they tend to | | | | to devote lesser time. However, if your child |
| take their children for granted especially on the | | | | needs more time to grasp things that are being |
| aspect of education. They have this propensity to | | | | taught to him, then you have to devote more |
| submit their children to school and believe that the | | | | time in explaining to him or her the concept of |
| institution could provide the best education for | | | | the subject matter you are teaching. |
| their children. | | | | 2. The type of methods used |
| However, in today's changing world, some parents | | | | There are various teaching methods available for |
| realize that sending their children to school is no | | | | home schooling. Each has its own teaching |
| longer the best way in providing them the | | | | approach; hence, they may vary on the time |
| education that their children need. That's why | | | | needed for the parents to devote on each |
| they have opted for home schooling in order to | | | | program. |
| give their children the kind of learning that they | | | | 3. The number of children within the family |
| want for their children. | | | | Just like in a typical classroom setting, where the |
| In home schooling, most parents devote their | | | | number of students is generally bigger, having |
| time and try to provide their children the best | | | | many children in the family would mean longer |
| education at home. They know that they are the | | | | hours of teaching. This is because you have to |
| ones who can provide the appropriate teaching | | | | incorporate in students what the subject matter |
| approach for their children because they know | | | | is all about, and if one of them could not yet |
| their children best. | | | | understand the idea, then you really have to |
| However, it does not necessarily mean that | | | | explain the concept all over again. |
| parents should devote more time to home | | | | 4. The age of the child |
| schooling than they would do with their other | | | | The younger the child, the more time that is |
| chores at home. | | | | needed in home schooling. This is because |
| It is true that home schooling needs time in order | | | | younger children have the tendency to grasp the |
| to come up with the best teaching approach that | | | | things being taught at a much slower pace |
| your children need. It is also through a committed | | | | compared to those who are already at higher |
| schedule that you can identify the appropriate | | | | levels. |
| tactics that you need to employ in order to teach | | | | On its total view, the time needed to commit in |
| your children well. But it does not mean that you | | | | home schooling may be affected with these |
| have to give your whole time to teaching your | | | | factors but the important thing is to have quality |
| children through home schooling programs. | | | | time for your children or students. It is not a |
| On its basic concept, home schooling uses the | | | | matter of how much time you can devote in |
| one-to-one teaching method; hence, it needs | | | | home schooling but more on how you have |
| lesser time compared to the typical classroom | | | | provided the time in teaching your children. |
| setting. This is because with a more individualistic | | | | |