Yes, homeschooled children are strangeI read an off-the-cuff remark about the strangeness of homeschooled and unschooled children this week on social media and wanted to wholeheartedly and publicly respond to the lovely random person who labelled all of our children as 'strange'. I actually completely agree with you. Read more...
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6 Reasons to homeschool with less televisionOver the course of a year, according to current statistics, you could have easily have spent between two and six full months just sitting in front of a television or another electronic device. Read more...
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Why your home educated child needs space more than deadlinesAs a university tutor I completely endorse the potential for home education to provide all of that for young people, however from my experience, my students often learn the most when they are offered the seed of an idea and left to their own devices to run with it! Sometimes the deadlines, pressure to perform or reach a certain level, or to over-achieve completely gets in the way of learning what you were hoping to learn in the first place! Read more...
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