There’s a global spotlight on homeschooling right now. Parents across the world are waking up to a life where schools, for a time, effectively do… Read More »Why we’re not homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic
Gosh, what a week. Not just for some of us, but for all of us. Whatever happens from here, however this thing plays out, the… Read More »Homeschooling during the coronavirus pandemic
Parenting is a complex business. We get tangled up in expectations, benchmarks, comparisons, busy-ness, tiredness, having the right things, the pressure of making the money… Read More »Nothing is more valuable than a parent’s time
September 12, 2019 – a lovely spring day, the first time in months you could genuinely use the word ‘warm’, and the day we officially… Read More »Primrose June’s birth story (home birth)
Being in the moment – we do it so naturally as children, but the more we grow up the more we struggle with it. In… Read More »Are we providing the framework our children need to live intentionally?
So many adults (some young, some much older) hit a point in life where they step back and realise they’ve been investing time in something… Read More »We have the purpose of our childhood and teenage years all wrong
This is Florence – she’s almost five, almost school age. If she started alongside other children her age she’d be in a classroom environment most… Read More »If you didn’t have to spend 2,340 days in a classroom as a child, what would you do instead?
I was asked recently whether I feel we’re depriving our children by choosing to opt them out of school. Whether we believe we’ve removed the… Read More »Are we depriving our children by opting them out of school?
We’re taught very early on in life that ‘fitting in’ is a key strategy for making our way in the world. No one explicitly tells… Read More »Unschooling dissolves the need for children to ‘fit in’
In a few short months our little one will officially be school age. If we were enrolling her in a classroom her day-to-day life would… Read More »This is how a five year old’s life changes when they start school
