This question came up recently in our member community, and I gathered these thoughts in my newsletter this week. If you’d like more home schooling Q&As and my thoughts around… MoreHow Can I Stop Comparing My Child to Others Their Age?
This reader question was sent in by email, and the resulting post was featured in my newsletter this week. If you’d like more home schooling Q&As and my thoughts around… MoreAre Children Developing The Resilience We Think They Are?
This is the child. The one we say is too loud, too quiet, too distracted, too active, too shy, too stubborn, too immature, too disruptive, too slow…or just, too difficult.… MoreThis Is The Child {short film}
After sharing parts of our children’s school exemption applications last week, a lot of you replied asking about the specific curriculum we swear by. If that was you, you’re far… MoreThe homeschool curriculum you should be using
Imagine you are walking through a forest. You pass patches of flowers, flax bushes, ferns, and vines. You follow a line of low shrubs, your eyes drawn up into the… MoreAllowing our children to grow
“Screens have given us access to more information, resources and inspiration than we’ve had in any other time in human history. They entertain us, educate us and connect us. They… MoreThe screen time conversation we SHOULD be having
The three children sat at their desks, waiting. The first was deep in his imagination. In his mind he was turning rough shapes into creatures, the way he does on… MoreMeet the children behind the standardised test
Children are very good at being in the moment. Adults, usually, are not. Not because we don’t want to be, but because we don’t really know how to anymore. From… MoreOur children are running a race that doesn’t exist
We’ve become completely obsessed with pushing children along a path of learning. Subjects, tests, benchmarks, progress, grades, awards, expectations, pressure…these words have become synonymous with childhood, and the age we… MoreAre we asking our children to learn too much?
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 not exist. While it’s wonderful… MoreWhy we’re not homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic
