School Exemption Examples
Complete copies of our approved school exemption applications for our (then) 13, 11 and 6 year olds.
Issy Butson
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Episode 7: A Week In Our Life Without School
A lot of you have asked for a day-in-the-life style episode, so…here it is! I think there’s a stack of important context that should always be shared as part of this kind of conversation, though, so this episode is made up of three parts (if you listen in,...
Episode 6: Four Strategies For When Home Education Feels Hard
This week I want to talk about what to do when this home education path starts feeling hard, because what we’re doing here isn’t easy. As parents, we’re taking on a huge responsibility by choosing to live a life without school, and there’s not always the...
Episode 5: How To Talk To Family And Friends About Home Education
One of the things we often underestimate when we decide to live a life without school – regardless of how excited about it we are – is how our family and friends will respond to it. How we’ll talk to them about it, and answer the questions that they’ll probably...
Episode 4: Designing Your Life Without School
In this week’s episode I want to talk about how a good home education lifestyle doesn’t just happen…it needs to be designed. Because it’s one thing to decide that a life without school is the right thing for your family, and the path you’re going...
Episode 3: Busting The Two Biggest Homeschooling Myths
For this episode I want to dig into two of the biggest misconceptions about home education that I, personally, have experienced over the years that I’ve been an unschooling dad. Despite it being a rapidly growing form of education, especially over the past year or two, homeschooling (or unschooling,...