When you first step away from the school system, you leave behind all their built-in ways of measuring progress - the grades, the tests, the reading levels...In this week's mini-episode, I'm sharing the simple daily practice we use to record, track, and review progress in our family.
"I'm having a hard time striking the right balance between following my child's lead, and making sure they're also doing hard things and putting in effort."
You hear a lot about what you’ll need when you first choose to live life without school. The resources, curriculum options, books you should read, the local groups to join. But there's something else that matters more than any of that.
I've been thinking a lot about this line in my post from the other day: "We've created a world where a child's greatest achievement is being low maintenance."
With all the talk about following children's interests and nurturing their passions early, this is a common worry. But understanding what's really happening during this stage of childhood will completely change how you see your child's play.
Being busy has become a badge of honour, but it’s nothing short of an epidemic. We need to slow down now while it’s not too late.
Children not becoming good students has never been the problem. It’s the fact we decided such a concept even exists.
In this episode, I’m sharing six ways you can overcome feelings of not being ‘enough’ as a home educating parent.
Hey! I'm Issy, aka Stark Raving Dad 👋 Six years ago, I started writing down my thoughts and feelings as we went through the process of removing our children from a public school system that was (and there's no other way to say it) failing them. Since...
We’re taught very early on in life that ‘fitting in’ is a key strategy for making our way in the world.
On Sunday, almost three-quarters of the world’s working population will fall asleep dreading Monday. The solution starts in childhood.
