When my children first didn’t start school, I saw a hole where school would have been. The absence loomed large. I saw empty years ahead with no Back to School Septembers, and no Sports Day in July. No school plays and no class assemblies. No chatting with other mums at the school gate. No end-of-year parties or school friends. I couldn’t imagine a childhood...
I sometimes think the government would like to devise an injection for all kids at birth that would make them all grow exactly the same! It would make it so much easier for them; if all kids learned the same, achieved the same, at the same time, in the same way, without having to pay attention to individual needs! Then the politicians could have...
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?
