Browsing: Just a Home-Ed Day
The real side of home education — not the Pinterest version. The days when the lesson gets abandoned and nobody’s sure if any of this is working. The role swaps, the reset moments, the times it clicks unexpectedly. This is where the honest writing lives: what it’s actually like to be parent and teacher to the same children, written from ten years inside it.
Knowing that something is the right choice is not the same as saying it’s always easy, and on the days…
The question usually arrives around 3pm on a day when nothing went to plan. The maths got abandoned and the…
Screen usage is one of the trickiest aspects of home-ed to navigate because there are so many useful resources available…
There was a period in our homeschool where one of our learners would start a lesson switched on and finish…
If home education wasn’t your plan but the school system has stopped working for your child, this is where to start. What to do first, what can wait, and what doesn’t matter as much as you think.
Some days the lesson isn’t the problem, the atmosphere is. Someone’s out of sorts, or siblings have been winding each…
Plan as you might, some days toddlers just won’t get with the programme. It’s not always easy home educating older…
Marmalade Day is one of the best days of the homeschool year. When oranges appear in the markets, the whole…
If you’re home-educating siblings, keeping little ones occupied while homeschooling big ones can be tricky. Activities that can be done…
Home-educating with younger siblings around can be complicated! Painting is a good activity to occupy little hands and minds, and keeps toddlers (relatively) quiet so older siblings can concentrate.
