Education in Britain-Homeschooling.

ADVANTAGES OF HOMESCHOOLING:

a. Parents can watch after their children all day.
b. Children learn good social habits, and also to give respect to people of all ages.
c. Communication and language abilities is improved, since children are provided with good reference.
d. Student to Teacher ratio is high, so this means unlimited resources to knowledge.
e. Studies can be tailored as per students need, and his/her ability to learn.
f. Homeschooling provides and maintains positive attitude in children.
g. As per research indicates, their are two main factors that are very helpful in upbring of children's educational success, i.e. positive encouragement at home and involvement of parents in educating their child.
h. Children become more independent in their thinking and are firm on their decision.
i. Homeschooling also provides them enough time to pursue their hobbies and interest. This broadans their way of thinking.
j. Parents become influential in life as children are allowed to grow at their own speed. This also means children are free from peer pressure.


DISADVANTAGES OF HOMESCHOOLING:

a. Parents cannot have a time for themselves, they always have to be around their children.
b. Not getting along with children of same age might create some social problems.
c. This may also result in aquiring character of working alone as individual rather than working as team.
d. Children always think that they are missing out something by not going to school and doing homeschooling, even though they are taken by there parents to scout camps, dance classes, sport teams, sunday school and other organized activities.

Refrence links:

http://www.allaboutparenting.org/disadvantages-of-home-schooling-faq.htm

http://www0.epinions.com/content_4657094788

www.washhomeschool.org/whoadvantages.html

Histroy Of Halloween.

1. Celtic Irish and Druid belived it is a day where life meets the death.As it is the day when summer seasons ends and start of cold winter begins.It is also called as Souls Days when all souls are supposed to come out of there grave.

2. Probably it was 31st October that tradition of wearing mask and costumes strated.Celts wore costumes made from animal skin and heads of animal. They use to dance around the bonfire in this costume and told fortune,they enjoyed the bonfire all naight and waited for New Year to begin.
Also some legends say that people wear mask and costumes on 31st October to avoid getting possessed by spirits for winter, the shouting and dancing around the bonfire supposed to have keep spirits away from the living beings.

3a. 1st November was called All Saints Days or All Hallow's Day.Later it was called as Hallow's eve day this name later got famous as we know today as Halloween Day.
3b.It is still unclear from where did the origin of giving sweets came from but it is belived that poor children use to go from door to door of each house and pray for their lost souls and in return ask for some sweets may be small cake.
Due to some tradition it is believed that people leaving gifts and food outside their house on 31st October so when spirits come door to door to possess the inhabitants of the house they use to be left safe by the spirits if they found treat left for them.