Home Education Matters

Home educating? Why stick to the usual schooly curriculum subjects? These two subjects are 100% exam assessed with fascinating and relevant content for our home schooled / home educated teens, and so are fabulous options for home educators wanting to sit GCSEs as external candidates. 

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Home educating? Why stick to the usual schooly curriculum subjects? These two subjects are 100% exam assessed with fascinating and relevant content for our home schooled / home educated teens, and so are fabulous options for home educators wanting to sit GCSEs as external candidates.

If you're on the fence about withdrawing your child, this might be the episode for you. Join Diane and Andy as they discuss the challenges they faced within the school system, the difficult decision they took to withdraw their daughter and how their first three months has gone as home educators. They frankly and honestly discuss both the challenge and the privilege of being able to home educate their daughter.

[This podcast is very much a labour of love, but it's also both a costly and time consuming process ... if you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee - no obligation at all! - you can do so here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HomeEducation]

Today I'm chatting with maths expert, Veronika. We discuss the best ways to facilitate, teach and sit maths as a home educator / home schooler. It's a fascinating chat ranging from creating a love of learning, how to get through the hard bits of maths learning, engaging a reluctant learner and how to sit maths exams. Love maths? Me neither, but you might after this podcast!

[This podcast is very much a labour of love, but it's also both a costly and time consuming process ... if you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee - no obligation at all! - you can do so here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HomeEducation]

Autonomous parenting? Partnership parenting? Unschooling? Radical unschooling?

Come and join Sarah and I as we chat all things autonomy, respect, tolerance and red lines. Some ideas are challenging, and some controversial, but they're all fascinating! Check out this super fun rollercoaster of a chat through the world of free flowing home education.

Join Diane and I recapping some of our highlights (and lowlights!) of 2022 as home educating / home schooling families, and looking ahead to our goals and New Year resolutions for 2023. 

[This podcast is very much a labour of love, but it's also both a costly and time consuming process ... if you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee - no obligation at all! - you can do so here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HomeEducation]

Join Diane and I recapping some of our highlights (and lowlights!) of 2022 as home educating / home schooling families, and looking ahead to our goals and New Year resolutions for 2023.

For our final episode following a typical home education day, Diane chats to Rosa. Removed from school a few months ago, they discuss the problems they encountered at her secondary school and the impact it had on them all. But don't worry, it has a happy ending!

[This podcast is very much a labour of love, but it's also both a costly and time consuming process ... if you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee - no obligation at all! - you can do so here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HomeEducation]

For our final episode following a typical home education day, Diane chats to Rosa. Removed from school a few months ago, they discuss the problems they encountered at her secondary school and the impact it had on them all. But don't worry, it has a happy ending!

Today I am chatting with Amanda, a home educator for the last 14 years, who is now guiding her teens through their exam years, college and into university. We also discuss home education successes, independent thinking children and why sometimes you just need to set up your own meet ups.