One of the many benefits of homeschooling is that it is more convenient when a child is sick. The student of a homeschool does not miss any lessons as they stop until the student can continue unlike public school that continues for all the other students and leaves the absent one scrabbling to catch up. It is even possible for the homeschooled student to recieve some eduation even while ill through reading, watching videos or other quiet activities when he or she feels up to the work.
It becomes a disadvantage when the instructing parent is ill. We recently found ourselves with this delimma. Our options were to cancel lessons until I could fully manage them or to create a plan of action for substituting normal materials that required me to speak more than I was capable of at the time. We opted for a substitute plan. We put aside the things that required effort and speaking on my part in favor of reviews, written work, reading and instruction from my husband.
We must now catch up in some areas but the children got the opportunity to study different things and picked up some new skills from their Father's lessons and the researching they did.
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