7 Powerful Reasons You Are Qualified to Homeschool

Many parents who are considering homeschooling wonder if they are qualified to homeschool.  You will not be the only one who wonders!  You will have others that question you as to if you are qualified to homeschool.

Take heart! If God has called you to homeschool, God will equip you.  My goal is to encourage you that you are qualified to homeschool, and you can do this!

#1 You are the Parent; The Responsibility is Yours

God gave your child to you, not the teachers at the school and not the neighbors next door.  You are the parents for your children, and the buck stops with you.  As parents, you are responsible for their education, their character building, and their spiritual instruction.

If your children walk away from the Lord, it isn’t their school teachers who will be on their knees in prayer for your child but you. The responsibility is yours, and the best way to pour into your children is through homeschooling.

#2 You are Qualified to Homeschool Because God Qualifies You

God loves to call those that the world would not have chosen.  God chose Sarah, a barren and post-menopausal woman, to be the matriarch for a nation. David’s dad left him in the field when Samuel came to Jesse’s house to find a new king for Israel.  Jesus chose Matthew, a tax collector, to be one of his Apostles to lead his church after he died.

Are you not patient enough to homeschool?  Are you not smart enough to homeschool?  Are you not a natural teacher?  Just as Moses questioned why God would choose him to lead His people out of slavery in Egypt, we may wonder why God would choose us to lead our children’s education.

Every time that God calls someone, God equips them.  The most important qualification that we need to homeschool is to listen to God and follow His lead.

#3 You Don’t Have to Be a Professional Teacher

Professional teachers learn all about psychology, educational methods, and history.  They also learn about the subjects that they are teaching.  They learn a lot about how to manage a classroom.

If you are teaching just your kids, you don’t need to know how to manage a classroom.  If you are called to homeschooling, you are going to want to know how your children learn and you can learn that without going back to college.

In the early days of our nation, students learned in one-room schoolhouses.  Their teachers did not have fancy college educations. Instead, they were educated through the same system that they were now teaching.  If you are a graduate of high school, you ought to be able to teach it.

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#4 You are a Lead Learner, Not an Expert

You can fill in any gaps in your preparation to become a homeschool teacher by becoming a lead learner.  You don’t have to be an expert in every single subject. As a homeschool parent, my goal is to raise life long learners.  They learn this best by hanging out with a parent who loves learning and creates a lifestyle of learning for them.

A Lead Learner also teaches their children how to be self-learners.  I want to raise children with critical thinking and vital learning skills that can discover new things and can challenge the so-called “experts” in our world today.

#5 It is All About Character Above All: Humble Heart

The main goal of homeschooling isn’t to give our children the best education, but to develop them to become the best people.  Character development is a central part of why we ought to homeschool.

Classroom teachers have limited time and ability to shape the character of their students positively.  Parents have the freedom, time, and responsibility to pass on a biblical worldview to their children.

The research shows that public schools, and even private schools, have an overwhelmingly negative effect on our children’s spiritual direction. The vast majority of Christian children walk away from the faith as adults.

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#6 You Can’t Teach Everything

It can take years for homeschooling moms to realize this secret: You can’t teach everything!  Guess what?  Public schools don’t teach everything either.

There are tons of guides out there about what to teach and when.  Those are just guides.  You have the freedom to include cursive even if the public schools don’t.  You have the freedom to study biology in elementary school through a focus on horses if that is your child’s passion area.

If you are raising life-long learners, they will fill in the gaps in their education as they move through life.

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#7 You Don’t Have to Do it Alone

Just as you don’t have to be an expert in all subjects, you also don’t have to do all the teaching alone.  Sometimes you are the homeschool teacher, and sometimes you are the principal who employs the skills of other teachers.

There are a variety of ways for your children to learn things that you didn’t get a chance to learn yourself.  You can join a homeschool co-op.  Your child can take a class online with a live teacher.  Your child can learn through video-based teaching.

You might surprise yourself with how much you learn as a parent and feel equipped to learn right alongside your child as you both learning something new!

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You Are Qualified to Homeschool!

Homeschooling is hard.  Homeschooling can be scary.  The stakes are high when it comes to our children.  If God calls us, God will lead us through the scary things.  You can homeschool! You are qualified to homeschool your child!

You don’t have to be the smartest, the most educated, or the most patient – you just have to be a humble learner willing to follow God’s leading.  If you love your children well, listen to God’s lead,  and create a lifestyle of learning – your children will thrive!