I'm so sad about this news but here's why I'm disconnecting. 

Some teens will hop from thinker to thinker, based on who shouts the loudest, but we want them to be rooted in something even deeper than our parental authority.

Also, how can I help my Eng students enjoy English, even in preparation for an exam??

Establish ideas that create the atmosphere out of which springs action. 

You don't have to understand how good ideas produce a fruitful life, you just have to sow them, and see the harvest.

Love you 

Is the academy playing ivory tower games, instead of working in close connection with the world it seeks to benefit?

I had a student with disabilities who wouldn't speak until I gave up my self.

First interact for the sheer pleasure of relationship, then listen, then teach.

What a dream about custard has to do with a growing shadow in our lives and how I want to a shine a light there.

Are incompetent teens a result of controlling parents? 

Charlotte Mason says any decision made for the child that should be made BY the child is an encroachment on the child's rights.

@daddyhomeschools

I want my daughter to withstand evil with selfless wisdom. I arranged a city-wide treasure hunt to dramatise the story of the Daughter of Zion.

I also answer some questions:

3 day/week home-schooling

Prepping for Uni

Book recommendations

Soli Deo gloria

I was going to give some advise on how to get some daddy/mommy time, but my 3yr old interrupted. My response was so spectacularly awful that it made me rethink what I was saying. 

I also give advice for the man-child phenomenon. 

Listen to my self-esteem deteriorate through the episode as I wonder if a parents attention really can be in two places at once. 

I'm trying to get rid of the internet completely from the house.

My IG friend Ashley @returning2home is a fellow 2nd Gen home-schooler and a talented all-round creative.

We speak about:

-de-schooling, 

-retaining a sense of self when your whole life is about your kids, 

-school mindset vs Charlotte Mason principles,

-keeping joy and magic in the school-day beyond the early years