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