Why would You Choose to Homeschool Your Spirited Child?

A spirited child is one who is “more” intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change than the average child. They are just not easy to raise, so why would you want to homeschool your spirited child?

The answer is simple to a parent of a spirited child, they just don’t fit into the school environment. They are the children who are always being disciplined, told they are doing the wrong thing and whose parents are being called to the school to deal with the problem. Homeschooling that child will allow you to work with the child’s temperament instead of fight against it. It will allow you give the child permission to be different and to help them along the path that is truly theirs to take, all without feeling a failure. Now, wouldn’t any caring parent want to do that for their child?

The simple fact is that spirited children are harder to raise than other children. Other parents will frown on you and tell you that you should be stricter or parent a different way, but if you go with your gut feeling that school is squashing the spirit of your spirited child, you will do all you can to give your child the best homeschool environment possible.

Be encouraged, there are many of us homeschooling spirited children. You are not alone.