Eight-year-old Eddie is super-creative. I mean he is super-creative. He loves crafting, painting, making, sewing, drawing… he’s just a creator of the nth degree. He loves to read, loves science, loves to find out how things work and why, but his natural leaning is towards anything creative. I swear, there is nothing this… Read More
People sometimes ask whether it is possible to home educate older children when you also have younger children to take care of. Whilst it isn’t necessarily easy some days, it certainly can be done. It isn’t always easy for people who are not familiar with home education to get out of the… Read More
We have been home educating for a number of years now and still the most frequently asked question is: ‘What about socialisation?’. I am sure we aren’t the only home educating family to be asked this. In fact, I am prepared to wager everything I own that it’s the most frequently asked question for… Read More
Yesterday I explained why the recent results of national tests had confirmed that our decision to home educate our children was the right one. Today I want to explain why a good education isn’t just about achieving high grades in the top subjects, and how home educating is a feasible, realistic alternative… Read More
Earlier this week I linked to a series of posts I wrote on why we decided to home educate our children. It has been four years since that series was written, and with that time has come four years of home educating. A few things have changed in the way we work… Read More
We have received more and more questions on home educating from people who are considering it for their own families and from those who are just curious to know more. I wrote a series of posts back in 2009 which gave our reasons for choosing to home educate (or homeschool, as some call it) our… Read More