Finding an end to the day As we build in momentum on our homeschooling journey, we find ourselves with a long list of potential educational avenues, and also several extra curricular activities per day. One one hand the motivation for creativity and learning experiences that is building in my children is hugely encouraging and inspirational, […]
Putting down roots Our woodland glade This week we have been putting down roots. Ever since we moved to our new home in the Scottish Borders some 19 months ago, I have hoped to section off a part of our adjoining field to plant some trees. At first I called it my woodland glade. Then
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Mass compulsory schooling. Since we began considering full time homeschooling, I have been wondering about the origins of compulsory mass schooling. Increasingly, the more we set down roots as a family, roots to actively support one another and our needs, mass compulsory school seems like a foreign concept. It has become more of an anomaly
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Coping with behaviour Blog summary In my blog, each week this year I seem to focus on a new element of educational approach or timetable that I’ve more recently been reading about, and inspired to implement into our homeschool timetable. 2025 so far has been about our schedule, our approach and our mindset. Previously I’ve
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The Montessori Method Individualised learning and the Montessori Method I am reading The Montessori Method, by Maria Montessori. It has been interesting because, though I find her method clearly very effective wherever it is implemented, I did initially struggle with the level of focus on the individual, rather than group learning and games. There is
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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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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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How to make a curriculum work for you Make a curriculum work for you Following from my previous post about carving out me time, this post continues to consider what kind of lifestyle we would like for our children and for ourselves. Here I think about hopes and goals in relation to employing a homeschooling
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Intuition for bullied children In this discussion on intuition for bullied children I am referring to the book From My Hands to Yours, by Monty Roberts. It is a book on training horses – lessons that walks the reader through a journey of understanding for the training of horses. Of course our children are not
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