"The Advantages of Home Schooling toTraditional SchoolingLearning begins from home and the place where you feel the safest and threat free is you home. Now achild opens up, asks questions, is not worried that he/she would be penalised for making mistakes in ahome environment. It’s time to evaluate and take a sneak peak at home schooling vs traditionalschooling.Traditional Schooling“A centre for governance” A traditional school has protocols that need to be followed by every students and teacher. It has its ownadvantages since children are disciplined they adhere to set rules and are within boundaries. But the flipside of the same is that a child never gets its space to do what it wants to do. The child waits forinstructions and the ignition to learning is the teacher.“One size fits all “ There are set syllabi that needs to be covered and this is killing of creativity, normalizing the learningpattern and learning pace of children. So at times you observe that there are children who find thecurriculum to tough to grasp or others find it mundane. Some children who are not interested in aparticular subject are forced to attend classes do their homework and study the same. “Environment makes a wholesome person”In a traditional school a child gets a label by the teacher or his/ her peers. Now hyperactive children geta tag associated with some or the other syndrome and children who are the quite do not get the duereorganization or opportunity.There is an increasing trend of misbehaviour, crime and bullying ofstudents. “Chase a school model”While the child is just 2 years old every parent start chasing a pre-schooland are committed to chasedifferent parameters year after year. The tuition fees are hiked, there is peer pressure for performance,grades are compared and stress levels rise for the entire family over projects to be submitted/assignments to be done or examination dates approaching when the family has a pressing need or apersonal emergency. So it’s a chase model for several years.With all these drawbacks lets now look at alternative schooling which is ” Home Schooling”“A centre for governance”The child’s most admired centre with most comfortable teachers who are its parents. When there ishome schooling it gives tremendous flexibility for the child to do things at its own pace and not begoverned by timings. The child gets time to study, play his favourite game, climb a tree too while atschool. The child is self ignited to learn and excel. This makes the child more independent therebyenables those to grown up as better individuals.“One size does not fit all”thThe child’s best tutor who can understand its needs with an excellent 6 sense is a parent. Homeschooling helps the child to learn from its parents who can tailor make the curriculum based on thechild’s interest. This helps in horning the skills of the child and taking the child to an altogether new levelof learning and knowledge. The parents can customize the pace and use different learningmethodologies based on the child’s grasping power. The parent is able to perfectly understand the childand can teach using different learning aids like videos/ audios/ activities etc.“Environment makes a wholesome person” Is there any better environment for the child than its home? The child learns holistically in a homeenvironment. Along with the curriculum the child also learns values of life, the traditions of the familyand is well grounded. The environment is conducive to be more expressive about its likes or dislikes asthere is no one who would label the child or mock at it. There is more scope to make mistakes and thereby learn a lot from them. As the saying goes “ A person who has not made a mistake has not learntanything”“Chase your dream Model”We can get to know which fruit the sapling will give when it becomes a tree by looking at the sapling.Similarly parents are able to understand the child better and carve out a genius while the child is youngby giving appropriate strokes of attention thereby enabling the child achieve its dreams. There is nounhealthy competition for the child in a home school and the competitor to the child is himself/herself.The child and parent become a one-on-one mentor-student relationship thereby a deeper associationgets built. There are no hiked up fees nor travel pains. It is a calm serene environment with more focustowards being a knowledgeable person rather than being an educated person with more of degrees toadd on to. Research has also proved that individuals have seen better results with homeschooling rather thantraditional schooling. Thus it is imperative that homeschooling is a better option for children to grownup and become better human beings. "