Homeschool High School Mistakes - Not Planning For College

We've been taught to think that a college prep education is exclusively for college-bound kids. But college preparation is GREAT life preparation. The first big mistake that parents make in their homeschooling is failing to shoot for college!

In this lesson, you will find out what you can do to give a college preparation for your own children and the reason a college prep education is important.

A homeschool high school college prep education features reading, writing, and math - skills crucial to virtually any profession. It covers history, to ensure our society isn't doomed to repeat it! It includes sciences for critical thinking, along with civics to ensure our students can vote effectively. It covers the foreign languages so that we better understand the world around us, and physical fitness for health and wellness.

A college prep education is important for all children. Any time a child is going on to college, then needless to say they need a college prep high school. But what happens if you feel they won't head off to college? What then? Then their homeschooling experience could be their only formal education, and we have to make it good. If they will not be going on to college, then they are going right into the workforce. They need to be well prepared, to ensure they are good citizens, can function in their particular career, and can vote knowledgeably.

You aren't able to always know what the future holds

Perhaps you have found that sometimes kids will change their minds? My good friend had a son that loved motors. He was frequently bringing home little stray engines the way other kids might bring home little stray puppies. She had become positive that her son would end up being a mechanic. Positive that her child probably would not go to college, and therefore wouldn't need math, she was never conce
ed with pushing him along. He loved engines so much - it was an obvious fit, right?

Well, one day he announced that he preferred to be an engineer, and suddenly he needed calculus! Children change their minds, and at times even parents are unable to assume that things will turn out a specific way.

Improve flexibility

Planning a college prep high school will allow your children to change their minds. It will allow them to pursue ANY college they suddenly long for, and ANY profession they come to be enamored with! Planning for college will allow you maximum flexibility, and prevent any missteps or miscues as you go along.

No matter what life brings, you'll be ready for it! Have you see
"The Incredibles" movie? You can be like the super-hero mom, Elasti-girl. A super-hero homeschooling parent ready for anything that comes your way!