Home Education Matters

By Eleanor MarkerSociety & Culture Education Relationships Parenting Kids & Family

Home Education Matters episodes

April 26 Learning with Lego! Covering the curriculum in fun and interesting ways
Today's episode is a whistle stop tour through the main curriculum subjects and how you can use Lego in your home to help you engage your child and allow them to explore the curriculum in fun and interesting ways!
With Jo (Joanne) Revie- Jo is mum to four young people who she has home educated since their pre-school years, with her Husband Gavin she has a home-based tuition and educational consultancy business, where they offer educational support and activities for a wide age range of students. In addition to facilitating arts and craft activities for school-aged students, Jo is also interested in supporting home-based early years education. - Jo (Joanne)'s Website- Jo (Joanne)'s Facebook page - Jo (Joanne) on YouTube
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35 min
April 19 Five tips for autistic burnout with Emily and Eleanor
In another of our April Autism Awareness month series, this week we have our co host, Emily on discussing her top 5 tips for supporting your child with autistic burnout. Emily is AuDHD and has three neurodivergent daughters, she utilises both her lived experience and training to share simple and effective ways to combat burnout and create more calm in your home.
If you want to connect with Emily and seek more tailored support from her or from our other hosts, Eleanor and Charlotte, then you can visit our mentoring website and find out how we can support you further.
www.homeeducationmentors.com
Or perhaps you would like to join our Skool community and come and join our virtual coffee mornings, accountability sessions, workshops, webinars and wellbeing sessions.
https://www.skool.com/home-education-community/about
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57 min
April 12 Removing our Autistic Child from school - a parents' perspective
If you have been with us since the earliest days, you might remember this episode with Diane and Andy as they talk together about removing their daughter Rosa from school.
Since then, Rosa has grown and flourished, so I took the opportunity of re-releasing their chat with an extra section at the start where I meet back up with Diane and hear all about what's been going on with them since we last spoke.
This is an old episode and an informal chat between two parents so apologies for any sound fluctuations!
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1 hr 6 min
April 05 Home Educating a child with Pathological Demand Avoidance
In today's episode, Emily chats with the wonderful AuDHDacious Humans about the whirlwind that is home educating a child with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance). If your child has PDA or suspected PDA, this is a must listen episode where all three parents talk of their experiences of parenting and home educating this unique condition.
Jenni Angas-Hi, we’re Martha and Jenni. We are both AuDHDers, ex-teachers, and parent carers to our AuDHD/PDA kids, who we now home educate and unschool, since leaving the education system and our jobs as teachers, over 3 years ago.
After struggling to find home ed clubs that could accommodate our kids, we started our own: Make and Create Club, where we offer community, advocacy and sensory support in a flexible low-demand environment where pressure-sensitive kids can thrive, especially those who flourish when they carve their own path. Our motto is connection over conforming, always.
As AuDHDacious Humans, we offer online support for discombobulated parents, carers, families, and educators looking for an alternative outside the education system to help them find their inner rebel so that all neurodivergent humans can heal and thrive away from the systems that break them. Some people call it a journey. They call it a reckoning.- Jenni's Website- @audhdacious.humans on Instagram- Jenni's Facebook page- Jenni's Facebook group
Links mentioned: https://finchcare.com/
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1 hr 20 min
March 29 Catching up with the Hosts - How is 2026 going!
Remember those New Year resolutions? Yeah, turns out that we don't either! But we thought we'd check in and see how we're all doing so far in 2026. It's also a great time for you to pause and take stock of your home education journey so far this year, see how it's mapping out, celebrate your stand out moments and think about what changes you might like to make for the rest of the year.
We promise that it's a stimulating episode where we get a lot off our chests :)
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1 hr 3 min
March 22 The Home Education Learn Free Conference
Today's podcast talks to the founder of the Home Education conference 'Learn Free' which this year is focused on supporting new home educators find their feet and more seasoned home educators deep dive into exams, learning and much more.
You can find the link to book here: https://learnfree.org.uk/ The conference is a great opportunity to come together as a community and meet other home educating parents!
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28 min
March 15 Authoritarian Parenting - Parenting mini series with Eleanor and Charlotte
In this episode of Home Education Matters, we continue our parenting mini-series by exploring authoritarian parenting—what it is, why it’s still common, and how it differs from permissive, neglectful, and connective approaches. We talk about the hallmarks of authoritarian parenting, including strict rules, punishments, and expectations of obedience, and how many of us were raised with elements of this style.
We also discuss why behaviour is communication, how punishments and rewards can sometimes become tools of control, and why many parents experience occasional “authoritarian moments” when overwhelmed. Most importantly, we explore how reflection and repair can help us move toward a more connective, balanced approach to parenting.
Eleanor is again joined by her co-host, Charlotte, a child psychologist, for another engaging, frank and thought provoking chat about parenting and pressures on parents.
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1 hr 4 min
March 08 Unlocking the Power of Music in Home Education
In this week's episode of Home Education Matters, Emily is joined by Will Savage, a music educator and founder of Music with Will. Will shares his own home education journey and how music featured in that, and how he now supports other home educated children to also access music education.
Will shares simple and practical tips for home educating parents to easily incorporate music education into their daily lives, whilst also highlighting easily accessible resources that create a fun and engaging environment for children to learn and develop through music.
Will Savage
Will Savage is a musician and educator with nearly 20 years’ experience teaching music and piano. Home-educated himself, he knows firsthand how music can feel like a “black box” to children without formal training. Will’s approach makes music accessible, playful, and understandable, helping children explore, create, and internalize musical concepts through listening, singing, and hands-on activities. He also runs a small online program for home-educated children aged 7–12, providing flexible, interactive lessons that inspire curiosity and confidence in music.
Will's WebsiteWill's Facebook pageWill on YouTube
@willsavagemusic on Instagram
Resources mentioned:
clara.imslp.org
Chrome Music Lab
Ableton
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45 min
March 01 Five Steps to Incorporating Unschooling into your Home Education Journey
Unschooling can feel like a wild and scary place for the uninitiated! And so today's podcast is looking at gentle and easy ways to incorporate unschooling and its principles into your home education journey, in way that feel manageable and empowering for you and your child.
I am joined by the wonderful Heidi Steel and she'll be giving us five ways we can dip our toes into this liberating and rewarding approach to a child's learning.
With: Heidi Steel- Heidi Steel is the founder of liveplaylearn.org and the Unschooling Village Hub, and author of the book School Isn’t for Everyone and What You Can Do Instead: A Practical and Neuro-Affirming Guide to Unschooling.
She has over 14 years of hands-on experience as an unschooling parent of four always unschooled children. Heidi shares a practical, down-to-earth approach that builds connection, trust, and a lifelong love of learning.
Throughout the resources and community that she hosts for unschooling families, you can find support to step away from traditional education systems, and guidance and reassurance to create learning environments that truly work for their families.
Heidi’s work is rooted in the belief that children learn best when they are trusted and given the space to follow their natural curiosity.- Heidi's Website - @liveplaylearn1 on Instagram- Heidi's Facebook pageand Heidi's book can be found here
This podcast is a labour of love, and time and energy and commitment and lots of coffee! It really helps us if you can follow us on our social media channels and comment to let us know if you enjoyed the episode, what you'd like to see more / less of and generally come and say hi!
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42 min
February 22 Permissive Parenting - Parenting Mini Series With Eleanor & Charlotte
Today is the first in our parenting mini series and we are starting with exploring Permissive Parenting. This approach to parenting combines many wonderful elements such as child autonomy and responsive parenting. It can, however, throw up challenges both for you as the parent and for your child.
I am joined by my co-host Charlotte Webb, a Clinical Child Psychologist, to take a fun and no holds barred look at permissive parenting.
This podcast is a labour of love, and time and energy and commitment and lots of coffee! It really helps us if you can follow us on our social media channels and comment to let us know if you enjoyed the episode, what you'd like to see more / less of and generally come and say hi!
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1 hr 16 min