When my children needed something different, I listened. I closed my business and began home educating. It was terrifying but the world did not end, it opened up. Freedom means trusting yourself, even when no one else understands.
This morning on my dog walk, I had to watch where I was placing my feet because of the slippery mud. I saw a twig and immediately thought: oh, there's Stick Man. And I smiled. It made me wonder, do other people do that? Notice little moments during
"Off school today then?" In the early days, that innocent question would trigger a defensive sales pitch about home education. Here's what changed and why all that defensiveness actually mattered.
It's a question my children got asked a lot when they were younger. Here's what I discovered about what learning actually is when nobody's playing teacher.
I found an old notebook from our early days of home education. Pages of research, maths apps, unanswered questions. Looking back, I see a mum who was lost and trying her best. I also see the exhausting burden I put on myself and my children.
I have a three-page list of things to write about, yet here I am, overwhelmed and struggling to start. Where do you begin with sharing six years of transformation? There is no "right" place to start. There's just starting.
I’m six years into home educating my children. The time has flown by, and it’s been a wild ride. I feel like we are a completely different family. If you would have offered me this life back then, back when it felt like everything was falling apart, I’