People have argued themselves hoarse over the advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling. Each person picks something that makes sense to them, but there is one thing that almost everyone agrees about. According to homeschoolers’ feedback on Homeschool.com, the biggest disadvantage facing the homeschooling family is loss of income.
Surviving on Less Money is Tough
By definition when a child is homeschooled, someone has to stay at home. This means that one adult who could have been contributing to the family’s income is now spending time facilitating the children’s education. The loss of income can be a major hit to a double income family who suddenly has to get used to getting by on just one income. The tight budgets rarely help improve morale.
Flip the Disadvantage into an Advantage
When you are at home, you are better suited to taking your time to set up a small home based business of your own. Take a talent like making handicrafts, or greeting cards, or candles, or just about any product that can be made at home and sold online, and you are sitting on a potential second source of income.
Give it a Shot Before Giving it Up
Don’t let lack of confidence in the enterprise succeeding keep you from trying it out. If you never set up shop, how are you going to know how many products you can sell? The best part is that since you are home anyway you can set aside an hour a day to handling all the details of starting the business.
Pick Something You Enjoy to Reduce the Pressure
If you go into making something only for the money you are just going to stress yourself out even more. Instead think of a hobby that helps you relax. Something that you enjoy doing anyway has a far greater chance of turning into a successful business. Plus you will be multitasking by using your hobby to not just to de-stress yourself but also to generate additional income for the household.
