Let’s talk about mothers who feel ill-equipped to home educate (pause while everyone including myself raises her hand!). It is important to acknowledge the very human reactions to a way of doing education that probably has no precedent in our lives. Home educating mothers-to-be can be tempted to consider the task and conclude they are …
I wonder whether our overreaching nanny state has partially blinded us from recognising the cause and effect of labour and labour’s return. I have been reading and re-reading Proverbs for nearly a year now and time and time again I am struck by the connection between hard work and the fruit of hard work. Work, of …
Every once in a while, we are at our daily work and the Lord visits with great favour. Towards the end of 2022, my husband Simon and our church elder Joe Bailey had a tentative conversation as to whether our church might be able to host a home education conference for local home educators. …
The 2023 UK budget was announced last week and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has extended thirty hours of ‘free’ childcare from the current age of three down to nine months old for working families. With one flash of the magical money wand, tens of thousands of one-year-olds are going to speak their first …
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Three Reasons to Catechise (and a model for 2023) For every doctrinal truth, a competing heresy is planted. The Bible declares the deity of Christ whilst the major religions and cults of the world insist Jesus is not God. The Bible teaches the uniqueness of man whilst evolutionism teaches that we descend from ape-like creatures. The …
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Home Education: Taking Stock of the ‘Off-Key’ Days For the newbie home educator, an off-key day is simply confirmation that home education is a bad idea. What could be a clearer sign that our children belong in the school system than a day (or two) where children cry over their lessons, the house …
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The home educating walk is a walk of courage: courage to be different, courage to find our own groove and courage to stand in the face of curve balls. At this time in UK history, the Christian home educator often feels like a pioneer. More often than not, families start out alone, grappling with a …
I make no bones about the fact that I think Christian parents need to be seriously considering a Christian education for their children (Proverbs 1:7). While a true Christian school may be a possibility for some, home education may well be the obvious option available to most. The decision to home educate generally requires a …
One of the more stressful parts of home educating is the ten thousand times ten thousand minor decisions that need to be made over the course of many years as we piece together our home educating journey, home and curriculum. For a mother with a nature like mine, this is a large hurdle. You see, …
There is a reason that Sunday has been set apart as a special day unto the Lord. Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week and the Holy Spirit was given to the church on the first day of the week (John 20:1, 19 Acts 2:1-4). If we take Sunday (the …
