Category: Homeschooling
How to Explain Home Education to Family Members Who Don’t Understand
If you home educate, you will almost certainly encounter family members who do not understand your choice. Some will be curious; others will be anxious; a few will…
How to Handle the Question Every Home Educator Gets Asked
If you home educate for any length of time, you will be asked — often repeatedly, sometimes aggressively — some version of the same question: “But what about…
Writing as a Tool for Thinking: How to Develop It at Home
Writing is one of the most powerful cognitive tools a person can develop, but in many school contexts it is taught primarily as a performance — a means…
How to Choose the Right Educational Resources for Your Child
The home education resource market is vast, and for a new home educator it can feel overwhelming. Subscription programmes, curriculum packages, individual textbooks, workbooks, games, apps, manipulatives, and…
How to Teach Maths Conceptually at Home
Many home-educating parents feel least confident about maths, particularly if their own school experience of the subject was primarily procedural — memorising methods without understanding why they worked.…
How to Use Living Books in Your Home Education
Living books is a term from the Charlotte Mason tradition, but the idea applies far beyond any single educational philosophy. A living book is one written by someone…
Why Deschooling Is Not Just for Children
Most home educators have heard that children need a deschooling period when they leave school — roughly one month for every year they spent in a classroom. What…
Reading Aloud: The Single Most Valuable Thing You Can Do
If you are looking for one practice that will do more for your child’s education than almost anything else, it is reading aloud to them every day. This…
Unit Studies: A Flexible Way to Organise Home Learning
A unit study is an extended exploration of a single topic that weaves together multiple subjects. Instead of doing separate maths, history, science, and English lessons, you spend…
Mentors and Experts: Bringing Outside Voices Into Your Home Education
One of the genuine advantages of home education is that you are not limited to the knowledge and skills of a single teacher. At home, you can actively…
How to Build a Year Plan for Home Education Without Overcomplicating It
Year planning in home education does not need to resemble a school timetable. The goal is not to map out every day in advance — it is to…
Home Education and Special Educational Needs: What Families Need to Know
A significant number of families who choose home education do so because their child has special educational needs that are not being well served in a conventional school…