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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“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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Slow living and valuable work of the home I’m not one of these people that get all the housework done hours before anyone is up. Increasingly, I’m becoming more and more comfortable with being a slow living person. I find it quite hard to do in this fast paced world, with so many people wearing
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Myself as a parent in the school system My son and I had an understanding until he was 3 years old. I thought, I’m sorted, not problem with the ‘terrible twos’. When he turned 3 I attributed his behaviour change to the ‘terrible threes’, whatever that is. I thought this must just be a developmental
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Should you homeschool It is worth really hearing what a child is trying to communicate. My son used to object to attending his judo classes, claiming they were a ‘waste of time.’ Later, he described upsetting behaviour from his brothers a ‘waste of time’. At first I thought, he just couldn’t be bothered. Then I
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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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Carve out me time We’re here – the children are home So we’ve started homeschooling. Are you the same? Or maybe you’re working it out. Maybe it’s something that’s on your radar. There’s always so much to consider – a whole new structure to the day. There’s all the previous jobs that I would get
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Expectations of our children What are our expectations of our children on a homeschool day? How much ‘should they’ be doing? How many extra curricular activities ‘should they’ be attending? How much work ‘should they’ be completing each day? How many social activities ‘should they’ be part of? I have three boys, and each of
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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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