How much is too much supervision Are children supervised too much? In a world where children can be delighted in, given ways to contribute, and where older children would have safe guarded the younger ones, it is a strange concept. Hand in hand My son loves to wander through the garden and harvest any bounty […]
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They all bake bread! Why do homeschoolers all seem to bake sourdough bread? Has anyone else noticed this? The home education families that I follow on social media all seem to bake bread. Not just bread, but sourdough. They also seem to bake pies, and biscuits, crackers even. They make their own mayonnaise, pick their
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When the truth comes out From tuned out to engaged Today my son was playing the ukulele along to some songs he’d learned, and that he’d sung at his youth group. So delighted. Such a privilege to listen to him playing. And what a change from where we were last year, having just left the
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Belonging I spent the morning mucking out stables and filling hay nets. And this afternoon I found myself keeping house – these days I’m becoming quite ruthless at throwing out things that are just lying around (by my slight hoarding standards anyway). For about 5 minutes the kitchen surfaces were sparkling, and the slate floor
Reap what we sow Emerging from winter We have been plugging away at the garden. Each weekend an hour here or there, some convenient May bank holidays used as an opportunity to find myself upside down in weeds waist high. Emerging from a winter of tree planting and weeding out nettles, hogweed and poison hemlock,
Sometimes you have to lose to win Avoid conflict – however hard we try to stay out of trouble, sometimes trouble seems to find us. Kingdoms causes reflect that as we stand as one with Christ’s light, our movement often meets opposition. We rub shoulders with the rest of the world, and increasingly I find
Forge our own path School opportunities and disappointments leaving the school system There are quite a few changes that I’ve noticed about a change in heart. I was disappointed when we left the school system about some of the opportunities I had hoped for on behalf of our children. I had hoped they could be
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Count our blessings Photos on the wall Count our blessings. Something I have long been inspired by, in many different stages of life. As a student in my flat in northern Aberdeen with all my belongings in my bedroom – mostly photos on the wall, a piano next to my bed and my computer at
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Slow dopamine No telly til dark We used to have an understanding that rainy days equated to screen time, a quick dopamine fix, the antithesis of slow dopamine. Not all day, but especially in the winter, when the dusk fell, telly time would begin. That was the rule – no telly till dark. That might
When the plans changed The blog that would’ve been This week I was all set to write an ‘a day in homeschooling’ blog. I was holding my breath and game face on for that one, as it would be more of a confession than an example of how to homeschool. With so much life The
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