Home education opens the door to unparalleled flexibility, personalised learning, and the chance to nurture deeper connections within your family and community. It’s a path that allows you to shape education around your child’s unique needs and passions, offering opportunities for growth and discovery beyond traditional classroom walls. While it does demand commitment, creativity, and...

👋🏼 This is an invitation to submit your own personal content to a new website ‘The Home Ed Daily’. I would love your stories and articles - on any aspects of home ed. It is a site for and written by home educators. I sincerely hope that the information and many online resources I’ve linked to there, are helpful to our HE community. I’d like the site to debunk some misconceptions about home ed...

School isn't the only way to get an education, and the school way isn't the only way to learn. In fact, some of the skills we need at school are quite different to the skills we need in order to direct our own learning.

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The UK education system could learn a lot from countries like Finland where children learn through play, and 'formal' schooling doesn't begin until the age of 7 (unlike the UK, where they can start school at barely 4, even though the actual CSA (compulsory school age) is 5). The English CSA system was introduced in 1870 to get women back into work quicker (rather than based on any educational...

I was lucky enough to receive two History Heroes games to review, but I only ever recommend products I genuinely trust and believe in. So, you can count on my opinions being completely honest and my own. And those links I've popped in this review? They don’t pay me any commission, but they will hook you up with a lovely discount. ...

Let’s delve into the numbers. In England alone, over a quarter of autistic children – that's roughly 51,000 out...

What a strange thing we do to our young people in this culture and time.

We make them spend several years learning things that they often have no interest in, that they have not chosen and that they will in many...