… we know our children’s abilities and how they improve why should we be constantly having to prove that they have progressed. Take Rebekah for an example. last week at camp (there will definitely be Corfe camp pictures and blogging soon) Rebekah went Kayaking. She hadn’t done it since last year and this year [Continue]

Well there was more education going on at dinner time, but oh no it was unplanned so doesn’t count! So the sausages, there were two left and four people who wanted to have the sausages. So each person needed half a sausage. Fractions for Jonathan! So what’s Ruth doing, how can this possibly be educational? [Continue]

I have been wondering how on earth to coherently blog about the Badman review and the proposed government legislation announced immediately it was accepted by government. The trouble is, it’s tricky to communicate the full enormity of the can of worms this opens, not just for home educators, but for education more broadly, and [Continue]

And obviously, because my children are home educated, they won’t get one! Or maybe they will…….. just by following their interests, engaging in purposive conversation and leading their everyday lives. Hey Badman, leave those kids alone! So here we have Martin and Rebekah discussing the Home-ed situation in Germany in advance of [Continue]

I was once sat in a doctors surgery, rather bored, waiting for my turn to go and be poked and prodded. As I sat in the half empty room someone came in, picked up a chair and left. No-one batted an eyelid. No-one missed the chair. We were all still sitting [Continue]

So the Badman thing is really getting on my nerves and causing lots of ranting from the 3 older members of this household. The very nearly teenager is even more ranty having spent the afternoon researching the home ed situation in Germany (after spending the morning doing band practice and planning meeting and a photo shoot [Continue]