Social Conditioning Posts

If you’re a home educating parent, September might stir up some surprisingly familiar feelings—maybe even a bit of anxiety or pressure to “get organised,” buy new supplies, or mark the start of a new academic year. But what if you didn’t have to? In…

This is one of the biggest battles we face as human beings - we love to feel accepted and embraced by our peers, and the act of defying convention and believing something different to others can require real courage! I know that I will spend a lifet…

I want to start this blog by emphasising the importance of the answer to the question you may have typed into google that found this blog, Home Education is a perfectly legal form of education. It is your human right as a parent to a child. It is th…

One of the things I was shocked by when I started home education was that so much of the life I was living day to day had been informed by my school life. I realised as time went on how intentional that is sadly and how important it is so abolish if…

The society we live in today LOVES a scandal and parent's waking up to their own freedom is making government and society alike freak out. The heavy propaganda around home education is being whipped into a frenzy - that home educating parents are 'p…

The pandemic made us all think. I'm not unique in that. Millions of us found ourselves ripped from our previous lives and placed in a new one filled with fear, anxiety, loneliness, overwhelm & confusion - but for me there was something else too - a…

Hi! This is me. This is me the day I tried to convince a friend of mine to come splash in puddles with us in the torrential rain. This is the day my sons trousers kept falling down and my daughter sat down and cackled. This is the day we all ended u…