Homeschooling was once considered a crazy concept, but now it is gaining popularity and turning into a normal phenomenon. This is not surprising because of the increasing levels of performance that most homeschooled students experience in college and throughout their lives. Homeschooling teaches a child several life skills from a young age, such as time management and working on a schedule. It also offers a flexible schedule that allows students to have beneficial life experiences, such as finding a job. It also allows students to work at their own pace, making the best use of their time. Enabling homeschooled children to be better prepared to enter college than their publicly schooled peers, leading to greater success. Although homeschooling is considered a different concept, it is extremely old. Some world-famous figures were homeschooled: William Blake, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Florence Nightingale, Charlie Chaplin, the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison. With the advent of public schools in America, homeschooling began to decline, but this concept returned due to some activities having negative effects in public schools. The education system of all schools has been on a downward slope for many years. As the amount of drugs, school shootings and other cases of dementia increase in these schools, more and more parents are choosing to homeschool their children. Although many people claim that public education is better and more child-friendly, many facts and statistics show that homeschooling is just as, if not more, beneficial. Homeschooling has become more popular in today's generation because it is one-on-one contact compared to public schooling. ...... middle of paper ...... will contribute to the development of their social skills. Whereas home schooling does not give the child the opportunity to interact with other children. Most of the time, the child will only interact with their parents or loved ones. Lack of opportunities to interact with other children can affect the student because they will not learn to communicate socially or even behave in a group. The reasons why parents choose to homeschool their children vary. The most common are social, academic and family. Homeschooling parents believe they can provide a better education for their child at home. This eliminates many of the disadvantages of public school, such as negative peer pressure, wasted time, and less individual attention. Through homeschooling, parents are able to teach their children the academic and life skills they want to develop in their child..