My name is Kate and my husband home educates our eldest son Dylan. We have two younger children who both attend mainstream local schools. Dylan attended special education settings until year 4 when we decided to home educate using a ABA (applied behaviour analysis) approach. Our reason for home educating was because we felt that … Read more
I’m Emma, married to Paul and mum to Chloe (18) , Ethan (14) and Tabitha (8). I started home educating when Chloe was 5. She wasn’t enjoying her reception year at school, so we decided to home educate. My other two have never been to school. We don’t really have a typical week other than … Read more
Please note this was originally published in March 2014 and has not been updated. People often wonder whether being home educated will somehow prevent access to higher education or otherwise limit future career prospects in some way. However in reality this is far from the case. Here are some examples of various subjects that older … Read more
There are lots of reasons why families initially decide to home educate. For some it is a lifestyle choice made from the beginning, whilst others take the plunge later on for other reasons, often unforeseen. Here are some of the most common reasons for ditching the system and joining our ever-expanding home ed community… Lifestyle … Read more
Introduction I’m Rebecca, I have two boys. Stanley is 5 and Ronnie is 2. How long have you home educated for and what made you decide to do it? We’ve home educated Stanley from the beginning. It started when we were offered a school place at a school which was not good at the time. … Read more
Introduction I’m Tracey. Mother to 2 boys, step mum to 1 girl and wife to Dan. How long have you home educated for and what made you decide to do it? 2 years. Deregistered Feb 2015. My eldest is autistic and has ADHD. School was not supportive at all and nearly broke me mentally with … Read more
I asked a selection of home educators to name one word to describe home ed. Interestingly, the word ‘freedom‘ came up alot of times! So I guess that would be the one word that really sums up home educating!!! In the interest of keeping it real, I of course included the two less positive words … Read more
Today for #100daysofhomeed Squiggle has made a list of recent art activities… Drawing ✏😄 Spin art 🎨 Scratch art 🐶🌈 Clay phone app / dwawing on the phone 📱✏ Taking photos 📷 Painting 🎨 Colarge 💗💚 (collage) Nature art 🍃 🌹 Marbleing Bubble art 🎨 Modle making 😉 💖💚💗 (model making) Paper modles (paper models)
Introduction I tried, and failed, to come up with some catchy intro, so we’ll just have to make do with the plain vanilla one. I’m Becky. I blog at www.selfdirectedhomeschooler.com. I’ve been married to my college sweetheart, Clint, since 1996. We have three kids: Jarrod is 18; Erica is 15; and Jillian is 8. … Read more