This blog is coming from the heart today, I am sat here - with my mind telling me everything I am not 'good' enough at right now.

'You need to get more variety into your kids....they are eating too much simple food...'

'You haven't posted on social media enough this week...are you even trying to g...

 I want to start this blog by saying that this is one of the biggest battles we face as human beings - we love to feel accepted and embraced by our peers and the act of defying convention and believing something different to others can require real courage! I know that I will spend a lifetime having...

I want to start this blog by emphasising the importance of the answer to the question you may have typed into google that found this blog, Home Education is a perfectly legal form of education. It is your human right as a parent to a child. It is their human right to freedom in education. It is vali...

Choosing home education often comes with some element of financial sacrifice - one that most of us do willingly to gain that all important time to connect and enjoy our family.

But let's be honest, getting savvy when it come to ensuring our kids stay inspired, meet their learning goals, have clothe...

As a home educating parent, the start of a new school year is an odd one. It comes with a kind of ghost attached - a schooled, slightly anxious, feeling like everything needs to step up - more needs to be achieved and more pressure added. It is a hang up from our school days and one that I work extr...

Choosing home education (homeschooling for my US friends) is never made in a vacuum, it is never just about our children's education. It factors in so many things like our careers, our need for more human-ness, authenticity and joy, our stress levels and mental health - and of course those of our ch...

I am going to share with you the honest truth about the dialogue that went through my head as I started thinking about home education as a viable option and the limiting beliefs I had to overcome in order to allow them to be valid reasons. 

1. 'I don't want to do the school run...'

The concept of ...

Empowering Your Home Education Journey: Must-Read Books for Every Educator

I solidly believe that embarking on the journey of home education begins with the reshaping our of mindset. If you were sent to any public or private school in the UK, chances are your entire way of being - everything you be...

Breaking Free from the School System's Grip: Redefining Our Beliefs and Habits

One of the things I was shocked by when I started home education was that so much of the life I was living day to day had been informed by my school life. I realised as time went on how intentional that is sadly and how ...

I was sat having a think the other day about all the things I felt back when I was sending an email to the local authority to turn down my kid's school place as I begin my 'countdown to deregistration' series over on TikTok. I didn't have to de-register my son from a school but I did have to send th...

The society we live in today LOVES a scandal and the mass exodus of schools by parent's waking up to their own freedom is making government and society alike freak out. The heavy propaganda around home education is being whipped into a frenzy - that home educating parents are 'pushy' or 'permissive'...

This is not going to be like the other articles you have read. I am not about to tell you how to make sure your kids are socialised, keep up with their maths, or how to achieve top exam results, ensure your kids get married and live in eternal happiness. We aren't talking myths or how to guarantee o...