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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Bringing out the best – Attention in home education “Love is a pure attention…” philosopher Louis Lavelle “How we dispose our consciousness… is, therefore, a moral act…” Ian McGilchrist “By paying a certain kind of attention, you can… cherish or strip of all value.” Ian McGilchrist Two kinds of attention This is an interesting one,
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How long do you think this young labradoodle can sit like this? How much is he learning in this position. He is learning about his relationship with us, those requiring him to sit, and he is learning about his relationship with work. He is waiting for the stick (sitting for about 2 seconds) to be
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As homeschoolers, are we depriving our children of school place experience – of ‘coping’ with the school environment? This is what I’m told. Or are we humbly allowing our children resilience? Parents are provided with ever increasing free childcare hours for increasingly younger children. Since it’s free and available, and highly popular, it surely is
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