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Home ed burnout: why homeschooling can become exhausting

Home education burnout: When it all feels too much

Home ed burnout: when you’re tired of being responsible for everything. Why homeschooling can become exhausting, even when you still know it’s right for your family

There are plenty of articles about starting home education . How to deregister. What resources to buy. How to find groups. How to reassure worried grandparents that your child won’t spend the next ten years feral in a hedge.

There...

A practical guide to GCSE preparation for home-educated young people. The Home Ed Daily.

Home education and GCSEs: preparing for exams without losing the plot

A practical guide to GCSE preparation for home-educated young people

GCSEs have a peculiar effect on otherwise sensible parents. One minute learning is centred around the young person and their interests. Then suddenly, somebody has bought forty highlighters, opened a spreadsheet and announced that Tuesday at 10.15 am is now “simultaneous equations”. I have taught maths for over 15 years, so...

15 easy French activities for children at home

15 easy French activities for children at home

Simple screen-free ways to bring French into everyday learning

Learning French doesn’t always mean sitting down for a formal lesson.

For children already learning French, short, playful activities can help reinforce familiar vocabulary without reaching for another workbook. For complete beginners, they can be an easy first introduction to the language, with no pressure to remember...

What Is Deschooling? A UK Home Education Guide. The Home Ed Daily.

What Is Deschooling? A UK Home Education Guide

What is deschooling? For us, it meant giving our son room to breathe before working out what home ed would become. Leaving school is a big adjustment for children and parents. Deschooling gives families time to find a different rhythm, rediscover how their child learns and work out what home education might actually look like.

You’ve sent the deregistration letter. Your child is home. And...

Not going back to school in September? A guide to starting home education in the UK

Not going back to school in September? A guide to starting home education

Not going to school? Home educating instead?

September has a strange amount of power. The shops fill with uniform, lunchboxes and stationery. Social media fills with first-day photographs. Conversations turn to new teachers, new classrooms and the question every child seems to be asked in August: “Are you looking forward to going back?” And if your child isn’t going back, it can feel as...

Sparking STEM IGCSE Biology Hub review. The Home Ed Daily.

Sparking STEM IGCSE Biology Hub review: flexible learning when life interrupts

Why flexible online learning matters when family life changes. Home ed does not always follow a neat schedule. Recorded biology lessons give families room to learn around real life.

I missed our monthly June update about the Inspire To Learn IGCSE Biology Hub. The reason is quite simple. Life took over.

My husband had a mini stroke, on top of other family caring responsibilities, our...

SEND reform: the EHCP appeal rights families could lose

SEND reform could remove key EHCP appeal rights

SEND reform: the EHCP appeal rights families could lose

In his final appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir Starmer addressed people across the country who “ struggle to be seen or heard ”, telling them they were the reason he entered politics.

For many SEND families, the Government’s latest reform proposals appear to point in the opposite direction.

A new...

How home-educated teens can move from interest-led learning to IGCSEs or GCSEs

Moving from interest-led learning to GCSE preparation without losing what works

How home-educated teens can move from interest-led learning to IGCSEs or GCSEs

For years, learning may have felt quite natural.

Your child became fascinated by a subject and followed it as far as they wanted. A question about volcanoes turned into Geography, Science and documentary watching. An interest in Greek myths led to reading, writing and History. Maths appeared in baking,...

Sailing experiences for home educated teens with Morning Star Trust

Sailing experiences for home educated teens with Morning Star Trust

Taking home education to sea with Morning Star Trust

Have you ever thought about taking home education to sea?

For many young people, sailing offers something that is hard to recreate on land: real responsibility, practical learning, teamwork, problem-solving, and the chance to see the world from a completely different perspective.

Morning Star Trust is a Christian sail...

What happens when children stop asking questions?

What happens when children stop asking questions?

How home education can help children start asking questions again

A recent article by Katy Purviance on Substack caught my attention because it puts words to something many families have felt for years: some children do not lose their curiosity because they grow out of it. Sometimes they learn that curiosity is inconvenient.

One line from the article stayed with me. Researcher Susan...

UK social media ban for under-16s: what it could mean for home educating families

UK social media ban for under-16s: what it could mean for home educating families

What the under-16 social media ban could mean for home educated children

A social media ban for under-16s: protection, panic, or a missed chance to make tech safer?

The UK government has announced plans to ban under-16s from using certain social media platforms from spring 2027. The plan is being presented as a way to protect children from harmful content, addictive design, stranger...