Yes, you can teach your kids.
Ten years in and still figuring it out — sharing resources & rhythms for building a home education that works for your family.
Home-educating. Two teenagers. One preschooler. Figuring it out as we go.
Teaching, planning, organising, starting out, just days.
Perfect days are nice, but ordinary ones do the work.
You don’t have to know everything. You don’t have to be a teacher. Here’s what you actually need to be.
ReadThe best lessons often start with a question at the kitchen table. Here’s how to catch them before they disappear.
ReadWhen a child understands why they’re learning something, the lesson lands differently. A simple framework for making purpose visible.
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It’s the end of the day and I find the science lesson plans we didn’t get covered today. I know logically that they did study science today, learning practically, but I’m not quite sure if it counts. Today was just a day.
The short answer is that it almost certainly does, and you probably are. But “almost certainly” and “probably” isn’t very comforting at 3pm, and is even less so at 11pm when the question’s still spinning, so here’s the longer one.
Nothing is going to plan, and the gap between the home education you imagined and the home education you are currently living feels huge. And then the thought arrives: am I actually doing this right?