A powerful stand for parental rights at the CWSB Exeter rally #TheHomeEdDaily #ChildrensWellbeingBill #AreYouListeningNow #HomeEducation #ParentalRights
On Saturday, home educators, parents, and supporters came together across the country to stand up for parental rights, educational freedom, and the protection of children . The rallies were a testament to the strength and...
Home education | Homeschooling advice In the UK the preferred term is 'home education'. If you see me using it, that's because the USA biased Google algorithms proritise their search results for 'homeschooling'. Read why correct terminolgy matters .
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Why terminology matters to home educators When you choose to educate your child outside the school system, the words you use matter more than you might think.
In the UK, the preferred term is home education . It reflects a legal and practical reality: parents or carers take full responsibility for a child’s learning, shaping it around their interests, needs, and pace.
The term ‘invisible children’ wrongly paints home-ed kids as lost or at risk. In truth, they’re thriving outside school - seen, loved, and learning in their own way.
There’s a damaging phrase that has been popping up in media stories for years: “invisible children.” It’s often used to describe children who aren’t in school, as if being out of sight means out of mind. As if children...
There’s been a popular photo being shared on Facebook about how ADHD isn’t really a disorder - it’s a different kind of wiring. A set of traits that once helped humans survive, especially in fast-paced, unpredictable environments. And for many home-educating families like ours, this idea makes a lot of sense.
It’s backed by research too. A study in Nature Genetics found that ADHD traits are...
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower – Alexander Den Heijer
So often, families come to home education after watching their child struggle to thrive in school. They’re told their child is behind, too distracted, too sensitive, too slow, too much. But what if the problem isn’t the child?
Oscar Wilde wrote, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Many of us come to home education through a quiet act of disobedience. We’ve said no to a system that doesn’t serve our children. We’ve stepped off the expected path - not out of...
Learning doesn’t follow a straight line What I used to think learning should look like: Workbooks. Steady progress. Timetabled ‘learning’. Educational apps. A clear beginning, middle, and end. What does it actually look like? Messy bursts of curiosity. Half-finished projects. Sudden leaps after long lulls. Ideas that spark, fade, and sometimes return months later - or not at all.
When I first began working with home-educating families, I was struck by how many parents described the decision as both daunting and deeply necessary. For those raising neurodiverse children, the choice often stems from a desire to prioritise wellbeing—after witnessing their child struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or a lack of understanding in school settings.
Do you worry about socialisation? Home educated children thrive through hands-on experiences and mixed-age friendships - learning together, not just side by side.
But how do they socialise?
It’s one of the most common questions we get - and one of the most frustrating myths about home education: that our children must be lonely or isolated. It usually comes from a kind place (...
