| decide to try the option of homeschooling your | | | | help them to achieve their professional and |
| child within the safe and secure environment of | | | | personal goals. By sharing our experiences with |
| your home. So that you can inculcate in him all | | | | our children, we can prepare them to face the |
| those personal values that you believe an | | | | challenges in life ahead. |
| educational organization fails to impart. Then you | | | | Parents can perform a satisfactory job of |
| should also realize the importance of mentoring in | | | | mentoring only if they succeed in building a strong |
| homeschooling. Rather than just tutoring your | | | | bond with their children. There should be a secure |
| child, you need to act as his mentor. | | | | comfort level between the both, so that both of |
| While a tutor and a mentor have the same | | | | them can communicate their problems and solve |
| responsibility of imparting knowledge, each is a | | | | them together. This way, parents can provide |
| distinctive role. A tutor merely shares a | | | | their children valuable lessons of life. Children look |
| one-on-one, teacher-student relationship with his | | | | up to their parents for everything. In the present |
| disciple, but a mentor shares a bond at a more | | | | fast- paced world, while parents struggle to make |
| personal level. A tutor educates and | | | | ends meet, children thirst to spend quality time |
| communicates through a question and answer | | | | with their parents. Parents can quench their childs |
| series. A mentor on the other hand aspires to | | | | thirst and satisfy their hunger for a relationship |
| contribute by building an intimate relationship and | | | | with them, simply by being a friend to their |
| instilling skills and values by becoming a role model. | | | | children instead of a dictating parent. This is also |
| Besides providing aid on educational subjects, a | | | | useful for strengthening family ties. |
| mentor guides and counsels on other issues in life | | | | As mentors, parents should also provide their |
| as well. Hence, a tutor differs a great deal from a | | | | children correct guidelines and appropriate |
| mentor, in the sense that they use and implement | | | | directions in life. Wise counseling and continuous |
| different methods of teaching. Unlike teachers, | | | | advice from time to time is essential to keep |
| mentors encourage logical reasoning with practical | | | | your child from going astray in life. Mentors infuse |
| thinking and not just memorization. | | | | personal values and skills by challenging the mental |
| Parents are the first mentors of their children and | | | | and physical capabilities of their wards. Parents can |
| thus natural role models. Parents not only nurture | | | | boost the morale of their children by appreciating |
| their children but also play a key role in molding | | | | and applauding their childs accomplishments. They |
| their character. Children are greatly influenced by | | | | can not only shape the character of their child, |
| their parents and thus it becomes all the more | | | | but also encourage them to form personal views |
| necessary to play your part as a mentor | | | | and frame opinions of their own. |
| responsibly. Parents as mentors, inevitably share a | | | | Homeschooling aids should only be used as |
| very close and intimate relationship with their | | | | supplements because they cannot replace |
| children. It is easy for parents to gain the trust | | | | mentoring. Homeschooling provides parents the |
| and confidence of their children easily, and it is | | | | perfect opportunity to guide and counsel their |
| important to be careful not to lose it due to | | | | children successfully.Hence parents should not rely |
| carelessness or negligence. As parents and | | | | solely on the Internet, videos and tutors as tools |
| mentors it is important to help the homeschooling | | | | of homeschooling. |
| children to develop skills and attributes that will | | | | |