Sorry, this is supposed to be a blog about home educating; the politics and the tragedies seem to have gatecrashed 🙄 Mind you, i’d love to think that the politics could take a back seat now but i’m faintly worried we’re going to have to have a revolution first. I cannot believe that we’re in […]
Go quietly
Or actually, just go. Loudly, kicking and screaming, evicted by the army, hung trouser-less out of a window (defenestration is almost too good for you). I really don’t care. I spent most of my pregnancy with Freddie fretting and worrying about what the Labour Party might do to my family. By the end of it, […]
Baroness Deech & the Rights of the (Home Educated) Child
A while ago, home educators watched (if they could bear it and weren’t too busy packing ready to claim asylum in the US) the reading of the latest Education Bill as it went through the House of Lords. We had some fairly strong support, which was heartening and said a lot for the people who […]
Open Letter to Fern Britton & Jeremy Vine
I write to you regarding your shameful coverage of the Khyra Ishaq case on the Jeremy Vine Show on Friday. While the interview was conducted by Fern, it was done in the name of JV and quite honestly, you should both be ashamed. Fern, to be a journalist is many things; there is, without doubt, […]
You may say i am mentally ill. I couldn't possibly comment.
Münchhausen’s By Proxy – that weapon of war against mothers. Used to vilify women in all sorts of scenarios and now, thankfully, largely dead in the water after Dr Roy Meadows was discredited for using it to bring to their knees the mothers of children who fell victim to cot death. I do not have […]
Dear Ed Balls & the DCSF – no thank you.
Inspired by Helen and Jax. You have conspired to question whether my children are safe in their own home, with their own parents, without any evidence of justification for doing so. My children are my children, conceived and grown by me, fed and clothed by me, nurtured and loved by me, taught to walk and […]
Equations = Power
Fran and i have been learning equations this last few weeks. I never liked equations; as a child, i struggled to see use for much of what i learned in maths and because i couldn’t see why or how to use them in real life, i didn’t really learn how they were working or why […]
Mr Badman now seeks evidence to back up his claims of abuse and danger to home educated children
An odd way round to do it 🙁 Even if you don’t agree with Home Educating and you think my children deserve better than to be locked up at home all day, please read this then read this letter and then ask yourself if scrabbling for evidence after the event smacks a little of the […]
But WHY Home Educate?
There are an awful lot of reasons for this, across the HE Community and in our family. The reason we home educate now is not the reason we started to do so. Perhaps one of the most pertinent to the moment ones is this:- It is my duty in law to ensure my children are […]
How to Home Educate.
There, that caught your attention, didn’t it? If only there was a nice, one size fits all, instruction manual for home educating. Of course, there are plenty of people happy to sell you books, boxes and curricula that profess to be the ultimate success, but if i’ve learned anything in 9 years of home educating, […]
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