This page is part of my guide on Catholic homeschooling. You may find an index for all the sections and the pages they go to below:

-Index-

1. Our homeschooling background and why we decided to homeschool. (Incl. should Catholics homeschool?)

2. THIS PAGE: Benefits of Homeschooling

3. Church Teachings on Education: Papal Encyclicals + Canon Law teachings on parents’ rights and responsibilities for our kids’ education

4. Biblical Foundation for Homeschooling

5. Resources for your Domestic Church and Homeschool

6. My homeschooling website: Our Bilingual Homeschool

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Pope John Paul II believes that home schooling would be of special benefit for parents to learn more about their faith as they teach it to their children. (p17)

  • Moral and spiritual development that the parents can help shape according to Catholic values
  • Retain innocence and childhood at a natural pace, not accelerated by untimely conversations and situations
  • Mature development instead of growth that’s shaped by immature peers
  • Superior academic development
  • Unparalleled social development, incl. learning to serve, obey, and respect others.
  • It provides her “the opportunity to fulfill her responsibility in the marriage vocation to educate her children” and lets her mature as she “dedicates herself in service to youngsters who look up to her with loving eyes for direction.”
  • “It causes her to want to learn Truth” and pass it on.
  • The “inexpressible personal reward of working, teaching, learning, and praying” with your children (emphasis my own).
  • He gets to spend more time with his family
  • He can see, provide, and protect his family in his home; the kids aren’t “scattered around in different schools during the day, scattered at dinnertime at different school-sponsored events, scattered after dinner with school friends or social activities….”
  • He can share in the joys for which he’s providing and take advantage of more opportunities because of the kids’ easily adaptable schedules.
  • Children have a built-in respect for his authority and can see/learn how important it is for him to be home with their family, which can help them become dads who’ll also value being at home.
  • He’ll “grow in his own understanding of what fatherhood means as he sees the dependency of his home schooled children who look to him for guidance, rather than to peers or teachers” (emphasis my own).
  • His spiritual life will grow (as he researches and learns more about the Faith), leading the family’s own spiritual life to grow as well.
  • Homeschooling can/will strengthen internal family relationships as everyone shares in the learning process.
  • You can understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses, and, in turn, help one another and develop Christian virtues to live together peaceably.
  • You’ll learn to work out problems together
  • As parents teach their children about their community’s problems, the children develop an interest for important family issues and for getting involved in anti-abortion and Pro-Life rallies.
  • Children will have better interactions with their community helpers, whom they can more closely observe and learn from.
  • “This ‘hands-on’ Catholic social action will result ultimately in a generation of Catholic leaders, educated and dedicated, willing and anxious to be involved in changing our society for the better” (p18).
  • The most effective evangelization is from parents to children.
  • Homeschooling parents have more opportunities to give a good example in living the authentic Catholic life.
  • The Catholic homeschooling family “gives witness to Catholic truths, the main truth being that, with God’s grace, the authentic Catholic family life can be lived.”
  • “Home schooled young seminarians know their catechism and respect the special vocation of the priesthood” (p19) and, between you and me, God knows we need more Conservative priests.
  • Catholic homeschooling families can help our country grow in the love with God by training leaders dedicated to Christian moral values, who will help return the nation to Christ.
  • The moral virtues Catholic homeschooling families are developing–and which will benefit the USA– are loyalty, patriotism, obedience to authority, respect for the law, life, and the elderly, responsibility, dedication to and the value of work, self-discipline, justice, charitable works, and mercy.

Home schooled young seminarians know their catechism and respect the special vocation of the priesthood. –Mary Kay Clark, Catholic Home Schooling (p19)

God knows we need more Conservative priests!

-Index-

1. Our homeschooling background and why we decided to homeschool. (Incl. should Catholics homeschool?)

2. THIS PAGE: Benefits of Homeschooling

3. Church Teachings on Education: Papal Encyclicals + Canon Law teachings on parents’ rights and responsibilities for our kids’ education

4. Biblical Foundation for Homeschooling

5. Resources for your Domestic Church and Homeschool

6. My homeschooling website: Our Bilingual Homeschool