by Gemma A lot of conversations around home education and “socialisation” end up revolving around groups. Meet a fellow home educator online or in real life and they’ll ask how many groups your child goes to. Which home ed meet-ups, clubs, sports, classes, or forest schools they go to, how many groups a week, how […]

Real home ed life rarely sits still long enough to be captured perfectly. It moves. It shifts. It’s full of interruptions and tangents.

by Gemma One of the first things that becomes obvious when you step into the home education world is just how different it can look from one family to the next. There isn’t one version of it. No single approach that everyone is quietly following. Some families have a clear structure to their days—books out […]

One of the things that stands out most in home education is how much of it is shared—not just in terms of learning, but in the experience of growing up together. When children are home, really home, they don’t just cross paths at the edges of the day. They move through it side by side. […]

by Gemma One of the things people say to me most often, when they realise we home educate, is some version of, “I couldn’t do that—I’m not a teacher.” I understand it. I probably would have said the same once. There’s this idea that teaching is a very specific skill set, something formal and structured […]

The other kind of masking… Are they sick or paranoid?

The bill that does not live up to its name. We always encourage everyone to do their own research and fact check. Anyone can read the latest bill wording and check what stage of the process it is at. This bill impacts every child through the consistent identifier (clause 4). It also impacts families where […]

While you’re reading this, we are sitting in the car on a loooonnnggg car journey. I have a total phobia of flying so if we want to go to abroad for the most part we need to drive. When mentioning that we’re heading off three weeks on holiday aghast school friends wanted to know how […]

Of all the subjects that we’ve struggle with in our home education journey Maths was the worse. Maths was the one which for the first couples of years that was a slog. We learned through play and follow my child’s interest but Maths? It didn’t naturally come up in many of the subjects we studied […]

A popular quote about books is: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” This quote, often attributed to Dr. Seuss, highlights the fun and power of reading to expand knowledge and open up new possibilities. I am huge believer in this […]