The Internet has been shown to be the largest revolution in home learning, with the answers to a numerous questions literally within easy reach. While many colleges deter straight ‘copy and paste’ from websites, they increasingly realise the Web is a useful research tool.
 
 It definitely makes parents’ lives easier, particularly the lives of working parents, who sometimes spend only 3 minutes a day helping their kids with home learning, compared to homebody parents, according to a study by the Brit Journal of Sociology.
 
 The report found that the average time parents who remain at home spend working on their children’s homework is one and 1 / 4 hours, though  almost all of those figures are based mostly on working mums vs homebody mums.
 
 The figure for men remains around three mins, though  if they remain at home while their partner works, the number is usually higher.
 
 Those figures perhaps look worse than in the past, when the amount of homework a child received was potentially less than the prescribed approach of many modern schools.
 
 Some estimates place the amount of time kids between 8 and 13 years of age spend on home learning at approximately 40 minutes per day, though  the number may also include activities like reading and drawing.
 
 If both mother and father get involved in home learning, the time children spend on homework hits 55 minutes.
 
 Youngsters aged 14 to 18 were less affected by whether their elders worked or not, the report found.
 
 Of course, this statistical data don’t take any account of the number of parents who decide to educate their children at home rather than send them to school.
 
 Competition for places in so-called ‘good’ schools means the quantity of elders engaged in home learning with their kids is on the up. Some guesses place the amount of youngsters aged between five and 16 years being educated in this way in England at 50,000, while others say the figure may be as high at 150,000.
 
 Children taught at home are known to be more independent re how they suspect, and more outgoing.
 
 However, there is a chance such home learning could wane, now that the UK’s colleges inspectorate has hinted it’d start considering the standard of education kids receive when working at home.
 
 Ofsted already carries out such assessments at regular schools, but the prospect of having to leap through hoops so as to teach your own children in your own residence, might put folks off the concept of home-teaching.
 
 The flip side of any Ofsted inclusion, though , might be that parents who like home learning to government-run faculties will get more backup and support from the Government Now the law permits for any parent to choose to home-educate, but provides little backup for those that do.