They have the opportunity to develop a depth of understanding and a commitment to the family that is difficult to attain when family members spend their days going in separate directions. Many families like the flexibility that home education provides both parents and children. Children can learn about things they are interested in at a time in their lives when they are ready to learn. Children can learn about the 'real world' by being a part of it, and can receive a superior education attuned specifically to their own needs, learning styles, personalities and interests. Holidays and outings can be planned for times when the family is ready and learning can occur according to either a rigid or flexible schedule depending on what is best for the family.
Home education means different things to different people.
For some families, it means replicating school at home, complete with textbooks, report cards, time tables. For others, home education is simply the way they live their lives, children and adults living and learning together with a seamlessness that would challenge an observer to determine which was 'home' and which was 'school'. If you think of these styles of home education lying at either end of a continuum, you would find home educators scattered between the two extremes, demonstrating every possible variation of what home education could mean. In a nutshell, all kinds. Home educating families live in the country, city, suburbs, small towns.