Home education set-up. Do you need a dedicated learning space?
It is very easy to feel a bit inadequate when scrolling through social media or home education blogs. Those beautifully styled posts showing immaculate learning spaces can make our own homes feel a little lacking by comparison. But the truth is, a lot of it is social media gloss.
About me. I’m Sasha Jackson. Welcome to The Home Ed Daily.
This platform is a labour of love. I’m a home-educating parent, writer, editor, and content creator, and I created The Home Ed Daily to give home educating families a positive, honest voice online. This is not a big business or a polished media brand. It is a grassroots project built with care, conviction, and a genuine commitment to...
During the Covid-19 lockdowns, as a parent who had already chosen home education, I encountered some puzzling assumptions from parents whose children attended traditional schools. The common misconception? That as a home-educating family, we must be used to spending all day, every day cooped up - sounds like a classroom! 😜
The audacity of this presumption was frustrating. I often...
A persistent myth is that home educated children lack social opportunities. It’s a tired misconception that resurfaces time and again, eliciting collective eye rolls from those familiar with the reality. The truth? Socialisation isn’t about the quantity of interactions, it’s about their quality and diversity .
School settings promote forced associations rather than genuine...
Homeschooling can offer enormous freedom, but it changes much more than where your child learns. Here are the practical, financial and emotional questions worth thinking through before you decide.
There is a point many parents reach before home education where the same question goes round and round in their head: Should I actually do this?
Home education doesn’t need an expensive curriculum
Home education doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. You can shape it to fit your family’s budget and circumstances. You don’t need tutors, expensive subscriptions, or a stack of shiny new resources. That said, it’s important to be honest. For some families, the biggest financial impact isn’t resources at all. It’s reducing paid work,...
Home education gives families enormous flexibility, but the real freedom is not simply escaping school hours. It is being able to build an education around the child who is actually in front of you.
Freedom is one of the words that comes up again and again when people talk about home education.
How to choose qualifications, find an exam centre, book as a private candidate and avoid some of the common GCSE mistakes home educating families make.
Thinking about GCSEs when you home educate can feel bewildering at first. There is no school handing you a list of subjects, choosing the exam board, making the entries and telling you where to turn up. Instead you encounter specifications,...
