Welcome to Homeschool Group Hug. We are on a mission to explain and encourage learning from life, without school. I want to encourage and support you on your home schooling or any other alternative education mission. Homeschoolers, unschoolers, worldschoolers or home educators, it largely depends on what country you're in and local word preferences. We've home educated in the UK, Australia, US and all over the world. I really don't care what … read more
RECENT BLOG POSTS
There is An Alternative to School – Don’t Tell the Kids !
We hear it so, so often. If we get chatting to parents of school system kids they'll either tell us that they couldn't homeschool or they'll say " Don't tell my child or she'll want to leave." We hear how children hate school and would far rather be doing something else. But they have to stick it out, they have to stay with the system until the system is done with them. It's great to hear from parents that they acknowledge that their children hate school. I love that, it's a step in the right direction. So many don't. But just as … [Read More...]
Why We Didn’t Opt Out of School (Reasons to Homeschool)
Hi, good morning from a rainy Romania. Occasional wet days are a great excuse to stay in and write blog posts so I want to explain today why we opted out of school and why we opted out of normal, or rather why we didn't. It's something that's been on my mind since Jessica wrote this fabulous posts about grandparents and their support, or negativity towards, alternative lifestyles. It's mostly about travel, but translates well into homeschooling, unschooling or worldschooling families. There are assumptions about reasons to … [Read More...]
Kitchen Science. Fun Science Ideas at Home!
Most of us have a kitchen of some sort, right? Well, you can use your kitchen to teach your kids science every day. I don't mean lecturing them, making notes and doing experiments that have to be written up. Just talk to them, constantly, about what is going on right in front of them, all the time. Sometimes maybe buy them a few props and science kits, you can find some great home science resources in this post, but much learning comes from every-day chatter. I've found that it is the quickest and best way to get all sorts of useful knowledge … [Read More...]
Learning About Voodoo in New Orleans
Well why not? Learning about Voodoo is fun and, like all religions, it's a pretty important part of understanding how and why the world is the way it is. I'm not going to start teaching the kids how to perform rituals, but Voodoo is a fascinating subject that for us, was part of what we were learning about slavery. I believe that kids should have some understanding of all religions, they're key to understanding countries, wars, cultural differences and similarities and more important yet, if the kids learn the facts, they're much less … [Read More...]
Homeschooling London. Our Day
A long time ago I wrote a post called What Does a Homeschool Day Look Like. It's over on our other blog, World Travel Family, and is enormously popular. The homeschooling posts are always popular, so thank YOU for reading, liking and sharing. I thought it would be nice to share a homeschooling day, or lifestyle, in London to go with that. Homeschooling in London is fabulous and UK homeschool regulations are a dream. We look at homeschooling in London, places to go, groups to join and resources for you to use along with telling you what our … [Read More...]
My 7 Year Old Can’t Read
Hi, glad you're here, my 7-year-old can't read either. In fact, go back a couple of years and my first 7-year-old couldn't read. It seems to be an epidemic, this non-reading 7-year-old thing, and it seems to worry mums of 6-year-olds and 8-year-olds too. I'm here to make you feel better and maybe help you help your child to learn to read. Why Can't These Children Read? Child 1 was in school and couldn't read in year 2. So bad was his literacy that he wasn't doing any maths through total inability to read the questions. Child 2 had … [Read More...]
5 Reasons Not to Send Your Child to School
When my son was just four years old I dropped him off at school for the first time. It hurt both of us. But that's what you have to do, children need to get an education and school is where education happens. Teachers facilitate that education and education is the purpose of school. If you don't send your child to school they'll be illiterate, stupid, know nothing and be weird socially. That's what a lot of people believe. This post is about some very good reasons not to send your child to school. It's not true. We've been … [Read More...]
Fun Homeschool Science Resources
All of the fun homeschool science resources on this page have been tried and tested by real homeschoolers, they have been given the thumbs up from me and the kids. I'm not talking about curriculums, work sheets, homeschool workbooks and online learning programmes, that's not what I want to talk about here. The best homeschool science resources, I think, are the fun ones, the games, toys, books, kits and sets. To be perfect they must come with great instructions and ideas for projects, they help out a lot if Mum ( or Dad) maybe … [Read More...]
Wildschooling
There are just too many diverse ways to homeschool or home-educate. Here we investigate and try to give a definition of wildschooling. What is wildschooling and how do you start wildschooling? Is there such a thing as a wildschooling definition and what is the underlying philosophy of homeschooling, with a little more wild? We tend to use "homeschool" to cover everything here on this site, but in the 16 years we've been educating outside school, we've done a fair amount of wildschooling. maybe. We talk about how we think we've incorporated … [Read More...]
Should I Homeschool?
Should I homeschool? Questions you should ask yourself before taking the decision to homeschool your child. Homeschooling is a wonderful option with good outcomes for kids, but not everyone should, and could, do it. Take a look at our questions below. If you can answer a confident yes to each one, then there is a high likelihood that you should homeschool your children. Should I Homeschool. Questions To Ask Yourself Before you decide to homeschool, just be sure you can answer yes to all of these questions. Do you love your … [Read More...]
History Quiz Questions For Kids
History quiz questions and answers, with a free printable pdf for kids and families, suitable as revisions, general knowledge questions, family quiz questions, or just for fun. We love history and learning about history. Enjoy our quiz. The history quiz questions are hidden on this page. If you open the pdf on your screen you can see them. Alternatively print the free downloadable pdf, with or without the answers. Good luck! History Quiz Questions Q 1. Who tried, and failed, to blow up London’s Houses of Parliament in … [Read More...]
Homeschooling Ideas for a 15-Year-Old
Hi there, how's your day going? So you Googled "Homeschooling Ideas For a 15-Year-Old". Guess what, I have a homeschooled 15-year-old and we've been homeschooling forever so I'm full of handy tips and ideas that, hopefully, will help you out. Homeschooling a 15-Year-Old 15-year-olds are very different to their younger siblings. Of course, they're all different, but I found my 15 year old became a lot easier to home educate with age. He progressively became interested in more and more topics and actually wanted to learn. Mostly, … [Read More...]