Do you remember having a best friend in school but that same best friend often made you feel like you weren’t quite good enough? Maybe you didn’t realise it at the time but as you got older you started to recognise what she was doing was wrong. Or maybe you did or said things to …
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Travel Gift Guide for Adventurous Children
We are travelling around Costa Rica for a month straight after Christmas so it makes sense to buy gifts related to our travels for Christmas this year. However these gift ideas are suitable all year round, not just for Christmas!! Some of the gifts are specific to Cost Rica, however you can make them specific …
How to Give Up Work and Home School – Top 5 Money Making Tips
I needed to come up with a plan fast in order to give up my job and stay at home to home school. In order to convince my husband it was doable I save up 3 months worth of my wages without him knowing!
How to Give Up Work and Home School – Top 10 Money Saving Tips
Often when I tell other parents we home educate they say they would love to but couldn’t because of money. They say they wouldn’t be able to afford to give up their 9-5 job, even though they truly believe their child would be better off home educated. I am here to tell you that it …
Hair brushing and body autonomy
I want to write a little something about hair brushing and body autonomy. When I was pregnant one of the things I was looking forward to was having a little girl I could dress pretty and do her hair. It was really important to me that her hair would look healthy and shiny and well …
Why we took away food restrictions
Before I had children I was certain that they would not be allowed sweets, chocolates, junk food and most of all fizzy drinks. I believed those things were not healthy and bad for your body and I was going to ensure my children knew this from a young age. I even banned my husband from …
Three top tips on how to let your child do messy play without making a mess
It is 2am, I ate a LOT of dark chocolate earlier, 85% cocoa and I didn’t think about the side effects, especially as I have been caffeine free for 3 years! So now I am wide away and my mind is racing. I was lying in bed trying to sleep and my mind took me …
A forgotten Anniversary
So yesterday was our 8th wedding anniversary. I know what you are thinking ‘oh how lovely, I wonder what Nadia and Sy bought each other, something bronze or made of salt I bet!’ Well actually we didn’t buy each other anything, why, because we both forgot about it! Well I didn’t actually forget, I knew …
Reflections on how unschooling found us
As I have said before, we hadn’t planned to home educate and when we took Rayne out of school we had no time to research or plan how we were going to do it. I joined an amazing online network, Explorium who helped us make our decision and continue to help us understand how to go …
Our first day at home unschooling
Even though we have been home educating Rayne and Rose since April, I feel today was our first real day at home actually unschooling. In my last post Less activities and more time to play I wrote about having more time at home as we were rushing around too much, doing too many activities. Today was our …
