Category: Living It
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When you hear the term ‘anarchy’, what do you think of? Do you think of fire? Maybe flags and scary, black-masked figures throwing Molotov cocktails? That’s the usual picture for most people. So why in the world would I want to associate my Home Ed journey with that image? Come with me, dear reader, on…
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I’m having a breakthrough! The mental kind. Not a break-down, a break-through, which can be almost as disturbing to integrate. And I’m excited for this one because it feels like a spiral moment, where everything comes full circle and you jump up to the next level to restart the learning process with your new foundations.…
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‘Can U read? R U dum?’ My daughter was asked online when a playmate discovered she is home educated. ‘Can you read?’ An off-duty teacher asked my 11-year-old at our local archery club, then – ‘Do you have friends?’. The checkout lady at the supermarket declared, ‘Poor Thing!’, when my daughter explained why she wasn’t…
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I’ve heard a lot of questions and statements about Home Education over the years, but some of them come up again and again like bad pennies… A lot of these statements are actually complete rubbish and the ones that make the least sense seem to get repeated most. Let me show you what I mean.…
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De-schooling. If we choose to Home Educate, it happens to the best of us whether we like it or not. You can face it deliberately, or you can realise it’s happened after the fact. Either way, there can be difficult times and emotional wrenches in store as you leave your old ways of thinking behind.…
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I’ve talked about this a little bit before, but just recently, I’ve seen more people saying – My child has no self-motivation. I’d like to Home Educate him/her but I think it would be a constant battle to get them to do things… I read this, and I feel sad. I feel sorry for those…
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Have you heard of strewing? If not, you might need to hear that it’s not something you do to rhubarb, it’s something you do IN your life, FOR your kids. There’s a bit of an art to it, and it can make you feel like a total Home-Ed Ninja. Want to come to the strewing…
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It’s inevitable. If you are a parent, there are going to be times when you are overwhelmed. And if you are a Home Educating parent, well, I’m sorry to say, there are going to be MORE times like this for you. You have chosen a path less travelled, which can mean uncertainty, extra work, and…
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As any Local Authority will tell you, if you don’t write down everything your kids are doing, they aren’t actually learning anything. This is why school teachers have ever increasing amounts of paperwork – because it’s been scientifically proven, in a real lab, that children only learn if adults write things down. Okay, so I’m…
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**This is a blog post that was written in 2017. It’s only 8 or 9 years ago, but Wow! – the world has changed massively since this conversation happened. I hadn’t even heard of AI back then, and now it’s already a huge feature in our lives. This makes the theme of this post even…