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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…
How to Choose Curriculum for Home Education Without Overwhelm
The home education curriculum market is vast. A few hours of online searching will turn up box curricula, online programmes, Charlotte Mason guides, classical trivium sequences, living books…
Self-Directed Learning: What It Is and What It Is Not
Self-directed learning is one of the most misunderstood concepts in home education. To outsiders, it can sound like a hands-off approach where children do whatever they like and…