Innocence and childhood Defending child rights Usually I write with a point of view that ‘there is no should be’. But today I find myself in a world of ‘should be’s. For example I believe we should be protecting our children’s innocence and for their childhood. It is their basic right as a child. I […]
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Labelling children One of the main reasons I started writing my blog was to share assurance with other parents that find themselves in similar situations as we have. This is an effort to encourage other parents like us to trust their intuition. It took a decade of working around the school system to realise that
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Religious and Moral education I continue my journey exploring how to move forward with my children’s homeschooling education. I’m interested in learning about education and how we arrived here with the system we have. I am curious about our education system, the accepted expectations in our society around this topic, and decisions parents and families
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Jordan Peterson I am a Jordan Peterson fan. I mean, not as much as Martha Argerich, but I have appreciated his content for years. He is a psychologist, author and online content creator. I find him to have very good, compassionate logic on most topics (I can’t agree with everything he says, I’m not a
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Fostering creativity in everyday life Creativity in education Creativity is not a rare asset at all, when children are given the space to explore. And yet people find it to be very rare indeed. I regularly hear parents lament that their children “don’t know know how to play”. And of course, this is key to
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Please join me on my quest as I search for… in all the world, what should I teach my homeschool children? I find it to be an important question as I venture further into the our homeschooling adventure. And all the more so, the deeper I delve. When faced with the challenge of homeschooling my
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Balancing internet in education. A world of screen based life Schools are resorting increasingly to screen based learning – internet in education. I’m afraid this is blog post is perhaps not a barrel of laughs today. But I feel someone needs to say something, and it’s clear to me that parents and families are the
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Throwing wood – relief in nature For more homeschool adventures – https://thereisnoshouldbe.com/wild-camping-with-kids/ Today we have surely experienced relief in nature. We had on our aspirations for the day – build a bonfire. The elephant in the field This has been something we’ve talked about for months. We’ve kept the pruned branches, and felled what was required
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Homeschool blog – state schools are needed Recently I’ve been writing about myths that I have been coming across on social media. Last week I wrote about the myth that only rich people can homeschool. https://thereisnoshouldbe.com/only-rich-people-can-homeschool/ This week I wanted to address another myth I’ve come across recently. “Public school isn’t needed anymore – it
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“Only rich people can homeschool” I’m quite new to the internet/instagram world of homeschooling opinions. There are a lot of strong ideas out there – homeschool seems to be somewhat of a marmite situation – people are either passionately for it, or adamantly against it. Some myths I come across are: “Public schools aren’t relevant
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