This year has transformed us greatly... as a family. We have learned a lot. About the beauty and value of discipline and effort especially. And our way of life has nearly become unrecognisable! For our whole relationship, we've travelled often and lived a very relaxed life, not abandoning work but never pouring ourselves entirely into… Continue reading How things have changed this year
Tag: homeschooling
First Year Homeschooling Review
This month, was the end of our first year of Home Education with our second daughter. I thought it would be great to do a monthly wrap up for a year to look back and be able to review it, not only for our memory keepsakes but others to be able to look in out… Continue reading First Year Homeschooling Review
February wrap up
Excursions ~ Reads ~ Games ~ Resources This last month we hit the ground running with the girls beginning. Ballet lessons, Ongoing Swimming Club & Miss 9’s Guitar lessons It’s the most we’ve ever done at once to be honest. But it’s starting to feel like a flow between our ongoing commitment to balance and… Continue reading February wrap up
Learning Plan 2024 – How it’s changed…
You'll see here below, our children's 2 Learning Plans that went along with the Homeschooling Registration Application are quite different. I feel it's a great example of how 2 differing plans can serve the same values. I feel it also shows how home education can evolve after a few years in one family. This is… Continue reading Learning Plan 2024 – How it’s changed…
5 Hour School Week?
What’s The 5 Hour School Week? This morning I shared a book review / recommendation for The 5 Hour School Week. I am listening to it on my morning walks (for the second time). And it’s such a great insight into the power of focus! I love it! I’ve popped it on my book recommendations… Continue reading 5 Hour School Week?
What lights me up?
In my “past life” I was an enthusiastic activist and keyboard warrior campaigning to Politicians at every opportunity. From time to time I still am. But these days I am much more intentional in how I dedicate my time from the space of “inspiration”, rather than reaction and opposition, which often merely tends to create… Continue reading What lights me up?
More reasons to home educate… Thinking outside the box
“Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.” John Holt, How Children Learn “Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking… Continue reading More reasons to home educate… Thinking outside the box
The Answer to the Question: Why did you choose to home educate?
It's not easy to answer this question in passing! For a start, there are 100 if not thousands of reasons why I chose to home educate. My short answer was "I never imagined it any other way. Mostly for the freedom to travel and road school, but for many reasons." Maybe I was keeping the… Continue reading The Answer to the Question: Why did you choose to home educate?
Birds of a Feather Fly Together
Please stop saying how important "socialisation" is for children and how that's the important thing about school! My beautiful homeschooled (unschooled) friend messaged me today with yet another mention of this common misconception from a nosey stranger when learning of her homeschooled child. Do people even KNOW who they're sending their children to school to… Continue reading Birds of a Feather Fly Together
Home & Self Education, Beyond Schooling
It's called "Homeschooling" but I much rather call it education. For the purpose of communicating to strangers who constantly ask if my child attends school, being 5... we simply call it "homeschool". But to those not just passing by, I will gladly fill you in on how it's so much MORE! Why Unschooling? I call… Continue reading Home & Self Education, Beyond Schooling
Holistic Home Education 