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 …
Three Reasons to Come Clean About Santa This Christmas It is that time of the year when random people in shop queues start asking our children what they are going to get from Father Christmas. I am never quite prepared for this. My children generally tend to me look at me with an alarmed, ‘surely …
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Home Educators: Guard Sound Doctrine There is a Facebook group entitled, ‘Christian Home Educators UK’ that recently posted an ‘inclusivity’ statement. It read that anybody who identifies as a Christian, including Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, is welcome to join the group and that the admin team remain neutral to controversial topics including ‘creationism, gender identity, …
An Encouragement to the Classical Educator One of the reasons my eye was drawn to this particular book is because it was written by a British teacher about our own schools. Despite the fact that our government annually spends around 100.3 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money on government schools, it is rare to find published …
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Christian Home Educators all know that being able to explain and defend what we do is part and parcel of our educational choice. I am completely fine with this. To swim against the flow in any area of life is going to raise eyebrows and it is good practice to be able to answer questions …
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Home Education: Seizing the Day There is a reason that the writer of Ecclesiastes exhorts his readers to: ‘Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth…’ (Ecclesiastes 12:1) God has means and ways of saving his children, and in the providence of God, one of those means is that for a particular period …
At some point along the road, most home educators will find themselves teaching at least one older child whilst managing a baby, a toddler, or even both! This has been the norm in our home educating lives to date. My youngest set of twins are now four, and for the first time in about …
