1. The stigma around homeschooling One thing I never considered when I first started homeschooling was that upon enrolling Jaiden into home education, every person who had never homeschooled their own child, instantly became...
We are at Diggers camp which is a 40 minute drive from Grafton, we are staying at a friend’s beach house that right on the beach! At low tide we went snorkelling in a...
This is our classroom…As Jaiden and I approach our 8th year of home educating, once again homeschooling is seeing a massive surge in new registrations so I thought I’d take a moment to share...
Teaching kids the value of hard work.. Yep, that’s right. I’ve never forced Jaiden to go to school, do formal school work, and he’s never done a test or project in his life. But...
An open letter to the parents of school kids. I was not going to write anything on the subject of “isolation schooling”. But, I am seeing a lot of posts from parents stressed about...
What if your kids did not have access to technology for entertainment? No gaming, no Youtube, no TV, and no Netflix? Whether we like it or not, technology is and will continue to play...
This might look like a few random photos but for us it represents what learning looks like. One of the things I (and many others) find difficult to grasp is that an education does...
It’s back to school time. So we’re starting the year off by learning how to gamble.. It might seem like a strange thing to teach a child, but unschooling is all about finding...
A proud Dad moment. Except, it’s not my kid! 3 years ago we met Toby, who was 14 at the time. Toby and Jaiden connected at an unschooling camp and really hit it off,...
Let’s talk about screen time and technology usage. There’s no denying we live in a time where we are using technology more than ever before. There is an infinite amount of learning that can...
