Making Homeschooling Easy

Happy New Year!  I hope you have enjoyed Christmas and New Year.  Today, 6 January, is the feast of the Epiphany which concludes the twelve days of Christmas.  As much as I enjoy getting out … (read more)

Bored Enough to Play

During the first week of the holidays, one year, I decided to allocate ‘home days’. Days when we would stay at home and the children would play at home without friends to visit and without … (read more)

Housework and Homeschool part 2

A concern that some people have about homeschooling is the thought that they will have to live in squalor, surrounded by science experiments and ‘works of art’.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  If you … (read more)

Housework and Homeschool part 1

How do you home educate and still keep house?
How do you clean and tidy the house when it is always full of people?
How do you stop your children from leaving their stuff all round the … (read more)

Why You Might Need to Let Go of the Good Things.

If you have been reading along with me on the subject of vision and philosophy in homeschooling I wonder how you are getting on.  Are you feeling comfortable with the idea of having a vision and … (read more)

Why It’s Never Too Late

Working out the answers to questions about what you are doing and why you are doing it is a great way to keep focused in home education.  In “Two Important Questions” I asked you to … (read more)