There's been ups and downs and it gets a lot easier as time goes along- or at least it gets more familiar. Children come with themes and personalities, certain things usually happen at certain time in childhood and having this knowledge makes home educating my younger two children easier than my older two children. I have an idea of the path and the way forward. The older two are still more challenging, but the older two also now are on their own journeys into adulthood- the oldest working in internet security, and enjoying it, and the second looking for work and continuing to study at home- in particular working on drawing, Japanese and maths in this past year as he contemplates the idea that he would like to study and work in Japan.
I am thinking I will try to keep posting on this from time to time. I've had a little feedback that it has given people the idea that they could home educate, and that was the other reason that I put it here. To help provide others with ideas of "how to...".
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2025
I decided a while ago that I would continue. It was nice to hear that some people I knew had found it useful. When I started home educating, I used to spend a lot of time researching ideas and plans, etc online and in a way just looking for a little inspiration. Inspirations for how we could do things at home, and what we could do.
Plus everything was very community based and so it was also nice to have ideas for our co-op, and to be encouraging each other along in our home ed community in Adelaide. I'm really feeling a need to get a bit more grass roots community like that again, but TBH every time I've tried to create something like that in Perth it's never really worked, and quite some time ago I accepted, rather sadly, that it was not possible here partly, I think, because people here generally believe that there is nothing wrong with school.
Arden was always keen to have extra classes and more activities out and about, and so in the last few years of his home education I have tried to foster that a lot, and that has been one of the advantages of living in Perth; there are a lot of classes and external activities. Irving likes a more intimate learning environment and so I've been aiming to do more at home, and one on one with him.
I always like the idea that learning is for everyone and should be free and that the sharing of knowledge should be free and so that is another reason I've continue blogging and sharing more diverse thoughts on education, because simply, I have a lot of experience now, and I hope that I can continue to offer inspiration.
If you've enjoyed or got something useful from my blog please say hi, and let me know what helped you out, and there's a few link's shared below that may be particularly useful.
Arden was always keen to have extra classes and more activities out and about, and so in the last few years of his home education I have tried to foster that a lot, and that has been one of the advantages of living in Perth; there are a lot of classes and external activities. Irving likes a more intimate learning environment and so I've been aiming to do more at home, and one on one with him.
I always like the idea that learning is for everyone and should be free and that the sharing of knowledge should be free and so that is another reason I've continue blogging and sharing more diverse thoughts on education, because simply, I have a lot of experience now, and I hope that I can continue to offer inspiration.
If you've enjoyed or got something useful from my blog please say hi, and let me know what helped you out, and there's a few link's shared below that may be particularly useful.
My early thoughts on natural learning vs natural learning, with 2025 update.
John Taylor Gatto's resignation letter.
Willow's adventures at Uni.
Childhood.
Things I've Learnt Teaching My Four To Read.
