Twinkl Home Educators Podcast

Home education can be a hard. Yet the tough times don't have to be endured alone. Join us as we chat honestly about the highs and lows of Home Schooling and offer some encouragements along the way.

In the first of our series, Rachel from the Twinkl Home Ed team talks through why we think it's important to start honest conversations about Home Education and what it means when we change our mind.

If you want to keep the conversation going, we'd love to have you in our Facebook community!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/twinklhomeeducators/

If there’s one word that kept coming up time and time again when I asked people what was hard about Home Ed - it was overwhelm. Whether you call it Home Schooling or Home Education, whether you unschool or follow a curriculum, whether you’ve got one kid or nine… feeling overwhelmed is something we can all relate to.

Rachel continues her series of Honest Conversations about the ups and downs of Home Education.

Continue the conversation with our friendly group of Home Educators here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twinklhomeeducators

Get your *FREE* Home Education taster packs here:

0-5: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/11vrud

5-7: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/s2f50

7-9: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/ewobi

9-11: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1eg8nr

11+: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1foa8a

Home Education is amazing! Honestly, we *really* love Homeschooling... except when we don't! Our Homeschool journey isn't always easy and it's okay to dislike parts of it. So here's the truth, or ten of them, about the things we love to hate about Home Ed.

Rachel is part of the Twinkl Home Ed team and loves (really!) Home Educating her three kids but she also loves honesty, especially when it comes to teaching your kids at home. Whether it's all the time spent on choosing a Homeschool curriculum, or feeling guilty over whether you should unschool or game school or world school or whether Charlotte Mason would really approve of your online learning... it's hard.

So grab a cuppa, lean in, and then let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Continue the conversation with our friendly group of Home Educators here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twinklhomeeducators

Get your *FREE* Home Education taster packs here:

0-5: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/11vrud

5-7: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/s2f50

7-9: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/ewobi

9-11: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1eg8nr

11+: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1foa8a

Over on the Twinkl Home Educators Instagram page we've been interviewing a bunch of different Home Educators. This is a recording of our very first LIVE Power Hour - interviewing as many Home Educators and Homeschoolers as possible in one hour. Will it end in celebration or chaos? Have a listen and find out!

Join three members of the Twink Home Ed team - manager Alastair, video creator Rachel and marketing assistant as we talk about being skint, the onrushing cost of living crisis and also search for reasons to be cheerful!

In this episode, Heidi Steel, Home Educating mother of 4, blogger and Unschooling coach at Live. Play. Learn shares fascinating insights into how her family Home Educate. Heidi explains what Unschooling means to her, how it works in her family and how the philosophy is underpinned by her relationships with her children.

Join us for a Home Education chat with Ross Mountney, experienced Home Educator, blogger and author. Ross talks about what inspired her to make the decision to Home Educate, how it worked for her family and why school wasn't the right fit.