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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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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There are a lot of reasons as to why we chose to homeschool. However rather than peel off an exhausting list, of faith filled, education reaching, social optimising reasons for our individual children, I’m sharing one vastly overarching incentive that massively contributed to our life changing decision. In a nut shell, we wanted to allow
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