I have been thinking about home education and marriage. There are some challenges in marriage that only arise when couples begin to consider home education and one is the situation whereby a wife is desperate to home educate and the husband is 100% against the idea. Ultimately, the husband is the head of his
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I rarely skip chapters when I am reading. The pedant in me likes to think I have read the whole book from cover to cover before I count it as finished. However, in my early years of home educating and researching the subject, I deliberately dimmed my reading switch to “skim” whenever the author started
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When did they forget that children are a blessing, not a right?
I would not be living at any other time in history. As schools grow spiritually darker and the content children are taught becomes increasingly incoherent and ungodly, the Lord has provided a means by which UK parents can teach their children the gospel, “when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
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It has been a while since I have written anything new for this blog and I have been cycling through old articles for a number of months. Thanks for bearing with me! I just thought it would be worth writing a bit of an update about what I have been doing and how our family
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
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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
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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.
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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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