Homeschooling Year round

Are you homeschooling through the summer? Whether you do or not is an entirely personal decision. Let me give you two views, one reason to take the summer off, another for continuing to homeschool. I will tell you up front, that we homeschool through the summer.
If your child has many public school friends, then the summer is the time when they will be able to get together and do things. The public school students will have the summer off. And your children will want to be off as well. Sometimes the parent is more in need of the break than the child. Taking the summer off can give both you and your child the opportunity to reduce stress, and do some really fun things in the time that you would normally be doing school.
In the case of our family, we school through the summer. There are a couple of reasons for this. Our weather is extremely hot and humid in the summer, to the point of being dangerous at times. When you add ozone air quality alerts, it just makes sense to spend time in the air conditioning. If we school through the summer then we can take time off when the weather is more pleasant.
Schooling through the summer also means that we don’t get burned out during the rest of the year. This may sound odd to you, but schooling during the summer means that we can take more frequent, shorter breaks through out the year. Schooling through the summer also means that my child doesn’t get the long summer months to forget the progress we have made, or have to review a lot when returning to school in the fall.
In the end, it is personal preference whether you and your family homeschool through the summer or take it off. Consider the pros and cons of each and make the decision that best suits your family!