How Do You Determine Negative Effects Of Homeschooling?
Homeschooling can have positive and negative effects on child development. It is important is to weigh the negative effects of homeschooling with the positives to provide the best solution for your child. First write down all variables and traits related to your child’s situation before determining the positive or negative effects of homeschooling. Make a list of your child’s traits, behavior, as well as living and social activities. Examples of effects of homeschooling are ability to get along and play with others, variety of social activities, proximity of siblings or other playmates, learning aptitude, etc. After writing these homeschooling variables on a sheet of paper, add a rating scale of 1 to 5 at the bottom of your list with 1 being most negative effects and 5 most positive effects. Now assign a rating to each trait or variable based on information gathered regarding negative effects of homeschooling. For example if your child has a low learning aptitude but good access to pla