How Fulltime Travelers Homeschool Their Kids

India is not a country where you would find a lot of parent’s homeschooling their children. However, travelers across the world, especially from the western countries homeschool their kids right from the beginning. They also take online classes for the grown up kids, but there are pros and cons of the process while the family enjoys their time in a new country every year.

Individual attention

When the kids study in the traditional setting of a school, the teachers are not able to pay individual attention to every child. However, when you teach your kid, you are able to pay attention to her strengths and weaknesses, and cater to them. You can take time to teach your kids according to their attention span, which makes learning fun.

You know the curriculum

When you teach your kids, you know where they lack and where they progress swiftly. You can pick up speed or slow down in the areas according to their needs. Moreover, you can adjust their curriculum according to your travel plans. If you are in Singapore, for example, and you plan to live there for the rest of your life, you may want your kids to learn the local language and the required skills according to the situation. And when you see that you children show interest in technical skills, you may want them to use the Self-Drive Car Rental App, for instance, to learn using the smartphone and then move on to learning coding.

Save money

Not just travelers, but the middle class parents in the western world cannot afford the expensive pre-school. They cannot break a bank just to make their kids study in a pre-school and prepare for the kindergarten. Therefore, they decide to homeschool their children and then send them to kindergarten and further studies.

Cons of homeschooling

While you travel around the world with your family, the kids are surely exposed to people and kids from different countries. However, homeschooling throughout their lives means that they would miss the regular social life in school that other kids enjoy. When the babies join preschool, they develop their language skills and learn to socialize quickly, though it does not mean that they would not develop themselves otherwise.

Teaching is tough

If teaching was that easy, more people would do it than we see around us. You may know the way to write the alphabet, but it is an altogether different game to break it down and teach it to a toddler. You have to commit yourself to become a teacher along with a parent, driver, home-cleaner, laundry-person, and every other job you do in the house along with traveling fulltime in a different country every year. You need to be highly patient and creative with your kids and learn to teach, which means that you are also a student of teaching as your kids learn different things from you.

Homeschooling while traveling is not easy, yet many people do it because they either don’t have any option or they like to do it.

I, Manoj Upadhyay, a digital marketer by profession, believe in just that! I cherish each aspect of life, which has driven me to the idea of my blogging website, namely Wandererfoodie.