Diary of a Home Ed Novice

We've been home educating for 18 months now!  The longer we do it, the less inclined I am to ever pursue any other form of education... ...

There's a verse in the Bible that says "As a dog returns to his own vomit, s o a fool repeats his folly."  I have felt like th...

Back after another absence... this time because we have just been away for a week, camping at a really lovely site in Weymouth , where a gre...

It is just SOOOO lovely to have some decent weather!  I had almost forgotten the joyful sounds of children playing happily (well, mostly) in...

I need to mention that there appears to be a movement called 'peaceful parenting', but until very recently I was unaware of it.  Unt...

another week passed with no blogging... oops! Last week was really busy - lots of lovely meets and other good stuff.  Then of course this we...

We had a real job to get going this morning.  We had arranged to go and visit friends, so no chance of a pyjama day today - not that the bo...

I've got the most horredous blogging backlog!  Last week was so busy and I was so tired, I kept meaning to write in my blog, but then so...

... is still better than a bad day at school!"  That's how the saying goes - and I'm so grateful that it's true!  To be fai...

Eldest learned a hard lesson today about the difference between saving and deleting a piece of work that you think you've finished wit...

I don't ever seem to get major wobbles - you know, the sort that make you seriously consider if your child(ren) would be better off in s...

Happy New Year!  Here's hoping that 2013 will be a prosperous and fun year for us all! I was in two minds about continuing to blog - i...