What’s your best thing about Home Educating?

I still get asked this question even though it’s seems so far away from doing it now. I had to look back at this blog from a while back just to remind me:

• the opportunity for the children to be able to learn uninhibited
• the opportunity for the children to have some say over their learning and education
• choice
• some control over who the children mixed with and how they were treated
• the opportunity for the children to be out learning in the real world instead of being shut away from it and just learning about it second hand
• to have plenty of time to learn about their own well being, what they were good at, what turned them on, and encourage the habits that supported those things
• to have the opportunity to make learning interesting, practical, exciting and fun
• to be the ones who watched our children blossom, even in the tiniest ways, rather than a stranger who would have probably have missed it anyway
• to have the opportunity to make learning a part of living and not something separate from it
• meeting an individual and diverse bunch of stimulating, non-judgemental people and have them to share it with
• to give the children plenty of experiences to support their education, and make best use of their best learning times rather than be restricted by rigid timetables.
• to be able to approach learning in a way that suited the child rather than the child being made to suit the approach
• the opportunity for the children to learn anything, any time, all the time if they wanted, any how and anywhere
• and to be able to rescue the kids from the uninspiring drudgery that school presented as learning, which was killing off their desire to learn at all, along with their happiness and their vibrant personalities
• to get our recognisable motivated kids back
• finally the opportunity to enjoy a united family life

Now, as I hear of increasing cases of less well mental health, incidences of ADHD and the like, and unhappiness in children at school I would certainly also include: the opportunity to pay attention to the children’s mental, physical and spiritual well being, so often disregarded within the system and treated as of secondary importance.

So what would you consider as your best things? If you have a moment in your monumentally busy day, do leave a comment!

Plenty of opportunity to pay attention to their health and wellbeing.