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I know, I know, the world is drowning in New Year New Start New Decade!!! messages of all the varieties. Here’s the thing… it’s just a day on the calendar. A pin on the page where someone decided ‘let’s start counting again there’. It doesn’t even quite match the obvious natural marker of the solstice. Don’t get me wrong, the new year can be a handy point to look back and reflect, and there’s lots of good can come from that. And making plans, I’m told, helps you achieve them. Personally, I’m still stuck in the ‘but how do you…
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’Tis the time of year for everyone to be talking about goal setting. What do you want to be and do in the new year? What are your goals and how are you going to achieve them? And that’s kinda fun – it’s always nice to imagine all the possibilities of a brand new year. But kinda also a bit stressful. What if you just don’t know what you want to do? There’s a lot of talk out there about following your dreams and setting yourself the big goals that slightly scare you and working all out to get there.…
Leave a CommentAhem. Time for a blog reboot. I have many posts I’ve been pondering and I hereby give notice that they’re on the way! Here’s a sneak preview of some of the things I’m thinking on… 5 awesome ways to learn… that didn’t work for us What we have found works How kids learn to cook when you can’t face baking with them A series of stories of different educational paths Astronomy GCSE resources and reviews Maths resources round-up (UK focused) Book recommendations for different home education approaches Favourite blog and podcast resources Running a home education group Group activity ideas…
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As home educators, we don’t have to follow the National Curriculum. And mostly, we don’t. The freedom to follow a child’s individual interests is one of the great advantages of home educating, whereas the National Curriculum is designed to be a best attempt to cover the needs of all the hundreds of thousands of children that pass through LA-maintained schools every year. It’s just not going to be the best fit for any particular one of those children; that’s not its job. (Not that you’ll get the best fit home educating either; perfect simply isn’t attainable. But I’ve reckon you’ve…
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Sometimes it’s the crazy half hour before dinner – when you’re already running late, and your cranky toddler Won’t Stop Shouting, the baby missed a nap, and your older one just smashed a glass of the reddest smoothie you’ve ever seen all over the kitchen. Sometimes it’s when you thought you’d had a great day, then without warning you find a minor disagreement over dinner turns into your tweens both in the midst of a major meltdown because of ongoing issues between them and you can’t talk to one without the other starting up the fight again. Sometimes it’s a…
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I always think I don’t make enough time to read, but looking back over the year I’ve not done too badly (helped considerably by audiobooks from Audible). For your interest and edification, here’s my list from this year… Non-Fiction Actual books Real books get read in bed, pretty much exclusively – they get the most attention paid to them, but it’s quite a limited time slot; so these are the ones I most wanted to get to. The Year of Living Danishly, Helen Russell A light entertainment Christmas present – an interesting, readable insight into another culture, but nothing that…
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“You have to go to school, it’s the law.” I’m willing to bet you’ve heard someone say this. Maybe you’ve even said it yourself. The thing is, it’s not quite true. The law does say that children of a certain age have to be educated, but going to school is only one way of doing that. So, if you’ve ever wondered ‘do I really have to go to school?’ or even ‘does my child have to go to school?’ then here’s the lowdown… What the law says (in the UK) It’s British law, so there’s bits and pieces about schooling…
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‘We began to see the same themes, the same attributes, reflected in a wide range of successful ideas. What we found based on Chip’s research – and by reviewing the research of dozens of folklorists, psychologists, educational researchers, political scientists, and proverb-hunters – was that sticky ideas shared certain key traits. There is no “formula” for a sticky idea – we don’t want to overstate the case. But sticky ideas do draw from a common set of traits, which make them more likely to succeed. It’s like discussing the attributes of a great basketball player. You can be pretty sure…
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