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| Home Environment |  All children need to know they are loved. It is even more important for children with special needs. Homeschooling provides special needs children with teachers (the parents) who really love them and know deeply their weaknesses and strengths. Homeschooling their children parents have a colossal benefit in delivering an efficient education program to their children.
Homeschooling also gives the parents an opportunity to teach what really matters. Children with a handicap have to struggle every day. A handicapped child always knows about his weakness and inability and this can often lead to feelings of worthlessness and insufficiency. In homeschooling, parents can spend much time teaching their special needs child that they were created in the image of God. God loves them so they have worth and value. Their struggles and difficulties have purpose in glorifying God and being conformed more into the image of His Son.
They can learn "not to lose heart. Though our outward man is decaying, our inward man is being renewed day by day. For this momentary, light grief is creating for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen; the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal". If a child accepts Jesus as his Savior and believes He died on the cross for their sins and rose again, he knows he will be healed one day in heaven, if not before.
When we suffered from weakness and disability, we think about our mortality and our great need for a Savior. The spiritual object lessons to be drawn from the our children's handicap are endless and of eternal value to them and the whole family. These lessons can cause great spiritual growth. God is teaching us to walk by faith, not sight.
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