When I started writing this post I was mum to a 13-year-old and an 11-year-old, both homeschooled kids. The elder son went to school briefly and, in all honesty, learnt absolutely nothing there, not even how to read. My younger son has never been inside a school, ever. They have been unschooled, homeschooled or worldschooled, […]
Homeschool Curriculum
What is a homeschool curriculum? A curriculum is the content of a course of study. Countries and states have their own government-approved curriculum, as homeschoolers we may be compelled to follow this standard state school curriculum, or we may be allowed to write our curriculum tailored to our individual child’s needs. In some cases, our […]
Homeschooling vs Unschooling vs Worldschooling
Homeschooling, worldschooling and unschooling are all progressive forms of education, gaining popularity in the modern world. Unschooling and worldschooling are types of homeschooling, also known as home education. Other forms of education outside school also exist, for instance, wildschooling, lifeschooling, and farm schooling. In this post we break down homeschooling, worldschooling, unschooling, online schooling, wildschooling […]
Meet the Homeschoolers: Lyndy of Homeschool Ahoy – Homeschool on a Yacht
Number 2 in our Meet The Homeschoolers series is Lyndy of Homeschool Ahoy homeschool and travel blog. Lyndy and her family homeschool on a yacht – they are boat schoolers or yacht schoolers. In this series we try to present the diverse reasons, methods and families behind global homeschooling to encourage and support everyone in […]
What is the Purpose of School?
Ask the man in the street “What is the purpose of school?” and you’ll get a pretty straightforward answer. It’s to educate children, right? Without school they’d all be illiterate, numerically inept and wouldn’t know all that important stuff that only school can teach them. Or would they? The Purpose of School When I was […]
Kids Doing Your Head In? Try Screen Free Days
I totally hold my hands up here, my kids do my head in regularly. I love them, they’re awesome, I love homeschooling and I love having all this amazing time with them, but when they fight and are grumpy, angry little horrors they do my head in. I’m normal, I admit that. Don’t Think You’re […]
Should We Homeschool? Reasons to Homeschool.
Should we homeschool? My husband and I asked ourselves that question so many times in the months leading up to taking our child out of school. We knew nothing about homeschooling, but it was very clear that school wasn’t working out for our family. We needed an alternative and we needed it fast, nobody was […]
Cruising is Great For Homeschoolers
As homeschoolers we are in a great position to vacation outside of peak times and to avoid crowds and high prices. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of cruise ships. We just completed our first ever cruise. No ordinary cruise, this was a monster, an 11 day Atlantic Crossing from Southampton to […]
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 […]
Homeschool Kindergarten
If you’re Googling for that term “Homeschool Kindergarten” you’re new to our world. Hi, welcome, we’re glad you’d like to homeschool. We need to start at the beginning and explain homeschooling to you so that you can best homeschool (home educate, home school, world school, wildschool, unschool ) your kindergarten-aged little one. There are a […]
Pulling My 7 Year Old Out Of School
I’m writing this post today to help you with the mental anguish and turmoil you’re suffering about pulling your child out of school. I did it and it’s all worked out perfectly. I was able to take my child out of school, legally and permanently, when he was 7 years old and it was one […]
Why Online School is Better
A few thoughts and reasons why online school is better. We are loving our online school. It’s so much better than a real school, and by that I mean a bricks and mortar traditional school building. I feel I need to share and explain why, at this point in our alternative education journey, we think […]
Educational Movies and TV Shows For Homeschoolers
Educational movies and TV shows for homeschoolers, or for anyone else, are an awesome way to get the kids learning without them even realising they’re doing “school”. I call it stealth learning and I’m a bit of a stealth learning ninja. One of the things I love about educational movies and TV shows is their […]
Homeschool Plan & Application Australia Year 2
This is the first Australian homeschool application or plan I ever wrote. I didn’t really know a huge amount about homeschooling back then, but this application was approved when my son was seven or eight years old. He’s now a very happily homeschooled teen studying for iGCSEs in the UK. You can take a look, […]
Making Homemade Snow
We’ve been making homemade snow. I had a moment of self doubt the other day, would my boys be troubled, therapy requiring, adults because I’ve never made them homemade playdough? I did what I usually do and put the question to the online homeschool community, most of the mums voted with a yes. OK, so […]
What is Deschooling?
Deschooling is a term you’ll often hear in homeschooling, unschooling, or worldschooling circles. It’s a common term, but one you need to grasp before moving forward with a homeschooling career. Both the parent and the child have to be deschooled. Some give ratios and schedules, one month of deschooling for every year the child was […]
Experimenting With Project Based Unschooling
I am not a total unschooler, we tried it, we dabble in unschooling but it’s not what we do all the time. Every now and then there is structure because my kids and I just aren’t the unschool type. But this month, just for a change, we designated Project Based Unschooling Month. The kids would […]
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Milestones and Homeschool
One of the most beautiful things about homeschooling my boys is being around to see the milestones as they happen, the big and the small, and to see first hand how pleased they are with their own achievements. It’s quite magical. We’ve had a couple in the last few days that I wanted to share. […]
New Homeschooler Mistakes I Made
My elder son is 13, the younger 11 and they’re doing great on life. One went to school briefly the other never, so we’ve been doing this homeschooling thing for a long time. Every new homeschooling parent learns as they go along and I was no exception. So here for you, are my new homeschooler […]
How to Start a Blog for Your Child
Have you ever wondered how to start a blog for your child? Have you been put off because you thought it might be hard, complex or expensive? You don’t need to be, it’s so easy a child could do it, literally! It may be just half a day’s work for your child to start a […]
Making Homeschooling Easier on Everyone
Are you met with resistance every time you mention that maybe, just possibly, they might want to do some written work of some sort? I am, but I have a secret weapon or two in making homeschooling easier on everyone. I’ve had a lot of practice. I have the sort of boys who will occasionally […]
Custom Essay Paper Writing Is a Proven Easy Way to Better Grades
Do you lack time to write college essays and term papers on your own? `Are you looking for a reliable website of a good custom essay writing service to get professional help with your challenging college research paper or a dissertation? Many students who for different reasons can’t complete academic papers by themselves, make a […]
Where to Find Teachers, Online Tutors, and Classes for Kids Learning at Home
A lot of parents will be wanting information on finding the best teachers, tutors, and classes for kids learning at home. There are a lot of reluctant homeschoolers around the world right now. Parents who didn’t ever want to homeschool, suddenly have their children at home. They’re stressed out, worried about their kids educational prospects, […]
Learning About Space Travel. Kennedy Space Centre
What a day we had today! There is probably nowhere better in the whole world for learning about space travel than the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A look at how amazing educational fieldtrips like this one, should be part of your homeschool kids learning. Learning About Space Travel at Kennedy Space Center -Homeschool Style […]
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 […]
Homeschooling on No Salary
On our “about” page I tell you that sometimes we are free of work. It’s time I qualified that statement and shared with you how we’ve managed to escape the boring old 9-5. Neither my husband nor I, have a regular job and haven’t since 2012. I actually quit my career ( I was a […]
Worldschooling. Learning From Australia
There is so much learning that we all pick up from our normal lives, activities and environments, every day, without even trying. Some call learning from the world, worldschooling or world schooling. You can call it that if you like. Some prefer natural learning, unschooling or wildschooling. It’s part of being human, and certainly part of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wax Resist Painting Technique
We learnt a new technique at homeschool group this morning. The people at Cairns Regional Art Gallery let our group have a go at the wax resist painting technique as part of our gallery tour. It’s always good to try out new methods of expressing yourself and creating beautiful things. How to Experiment with Wax […]
Australian Unschooler and Former Teacher
Number 3 in our Meet the Homeschoolers series is Gina of Our Global Adventure. We know of each other through the travelling family and blogging community, but we’ve never met in real life. Like Tamara, Gina is an Australian ex-teacher turned parent educator. I loved reading her responses, they’re all so positive and full of […]
Homeschooling in Houston Texas
Can you homeschool in Houston Texas? Yes, you can. To find out more about homeschooling in Houston we talked to a local mum (and former teacher) responsible for her own 3 homeschoolers in Houston, Harris County, Texas. This homeschool mum tells us how she homeschools, why, what facilities, groups, and field trips exist in and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thoughts on Homeschooling Highschool
If, like me, you have a homeschooled child approaching highschool age, well done! Give yourself and your child, heck, give your whole family, a big pat on the back. Not many of us make it this far. Have you noticed that most of the mums in the online groups have tiny tots? Did you spot that […]
Homeschool Blog Topics (For More Traffic, More Income)
Homeschool blog topic ideas can be hard to come up with if you want to increase rankings, traffic, and income. I have a homeschool blog, this is it. It’s very small because I am a homeschool blogger with several other, larger blogs and websites covering other subjects. However, this homeschool blog does make me a […]
How Do Homeschooled Kids Sit Exams?
Firstly I’d like to say that exams are mostly not compulsory nor really necessary, there are many ways to do life and the regular school system is just one of them. Should the child (or parent) feel they need paper qualifications similar to regular school leavers, there are ways. So how do homeschooled kids sit […]
How to Convince Your Parents to Homeschool You
“How to convince your parents to homeschool you?” A lot of kids, just like you, want to know how to convince their parents to homeschool them. I homeschooled my kids, and it was fantastic for all of us, so I’m here to help you to convince your parents to let you stay home and be […]
Photography Courses for Kids and Beginners, Learning About Photography
Photography is a wonderful thing for your kids to learn, all kids, not just homeschoolers. Photography courses can get you started quickly on your road to mastering the art and science of photography, as a hobby, as a job skill or as a business tool. In this post we look at free photography course, other […]
Growing Up With No Rules – Self Regulation
When I was a child there were strict rules which had to be adhered to on pain of death. Sit at the kitchen table to eat, all together, with knife and fork, at the necessary time “Thank you for my dinner” and “Please may I be excused” were necessary after meals Go to bed at […]
An Educational Holiday in Italy
Holidays can be learning times too. All of life is about learning, every second of every day, holidays are no different. Even a short one week break, vacation or holiday can fill everyone’s heads with new information, ideas, and attitudes. Learning from Travel (Worldschooling) in Italy We spent just one week in Umbria. We were […]
Perks of Having Dual Nationality Kids
I have two dual nationality kids. They were both born in London to a British/Welsh Mum and a British/Australian Dad, meaning they automatically qualified for two passports each. Inter-National marriages can be a nuisance, extended families spread to the edges of the map can make life complicated. Paying for all those passports is certainly expensive, […]
Homeschooling GCSE
Homeschooling GCSE is possible. Homeschooled kids can sit GCSE exams and iGCSE exams at examination centres in the UK and elsewhere. We did it, we home schooled UK international GCSEs from overseas. My elder son now has iGCSE passes, we did it successfully using a variety of methods. This post is about how to homeschool […]
Myths About Homeschooling
There are myths about education that necessarily become myths about homeschooling because they are closely related. We’ll debunk the following myths about homeschooling in this post The Biggest Myths About Homeschooling Most myths and misconceptions about homeschooling come from a lack of understanding of what homeschooling is and what it is not. Homeschooling is simply […]