Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
Our twin children start at school tomorrow. For a couple of years we have wondered whether educating them at home instead of sending them to school would be best for our family. The question first arose when we lived and worked in London and weren’t particularly happy with the idea of them attending the local [...]
My poor four year olds were back at their idyllic village pre-school yesterday after a two (or was it three?) week Easter break. Each day I’ve picked them up at 3pm only to have both of them wailing, refusing to get in the car and generally melting at the tops of their voices with streams [...]
As I walked in to the pre-school classroom today I was less than overjoyed to be greeted by my kids waving A3 sheets and screaming in double unison ‘We’ve stuck LOADS of pictures of all the THINGS we NEED Santa to bring for us!!’ and so they had - hundreds of photos of toys cut [...]
Yesterday when I picked up my kids from pre-school my son (who is three years old) was really excited to show me the surprise gift he had won during the pre-school Halloween party game of musical bumps. I was thrilled for him until he rushed to his drawer to show me the prize of…. a [...]
I’m very interested in the idea of home education and have not yet made up my mind whether I want to send my kids off to school when they reach school age next September.
There seems to be so many long-term benefits to be gained from teaching your kids at home (instilling the values that are [...]
School becomes one of many resources, such as libraries, computers, television, etc., to be used when the child and the parents choose, according to a contract between them [...]
A letter from our local rag (Worcester Gazette)caught my eye…
John Brayne from Redditch wrote:
“I felt the need to write regarding the huge financial burden placed on financially hard-pressed parents.
A new trend since the days of my sensible schooling is to have the school logo on each of the items that the children need.
Asda and Tesco [...]
I made a new friend today called Zoe who is also considering home education for her son and daughter who are just a few years older than mine and she lives in Worcester.
We made initially made contact via the Freedom in Education website last week and met up for a coffee today for a chat [...]
I’m trying to decide whether I’ll send my kids to school like the majority of people do or whether I’ll keep them at home and provide their education myself with plenty of visits to interesting places.
Here are some comments from various websites/people who have experience in home educating and extoil the benefits it brings:
Read responses [...]
In my quest to figure out whether home-education or sending the children to school when they are five is best for our family I came across this case study in Margot Sunderland’s book ‘The Science of Parenting’. It really makes me want to keep my kids at home to learn.
How Bullying Begins
Joe is being [...]