Life, Love & Literature

I can’t remem­ber how and why we made the deci­sion to home edu­cate the boys. Like all major things in our life we sim­ply went with the flow and the flow led us to the near­est book shop opposed to the school gate.

Like the major­ity of home edu­ca­tors we don’t sub­scribe to one par­tic­u­lar edu­ca­tional theory.

In some ways I could define us as child-led, but for us I take this as led by being led by what the child needs.  Which isn’t always the same as what they want.  Jack in par­tic­u­lar needs struc­ture, with­out it he becomes very highly strung and lacks the abil­ity to con­cen­trate and focus even on the things he enjoyed.  We try and fol­low their inter­ests and allow scope for flex­i­bil­ity in our schedule.

The Edu­ca­tional The­ory I sup­pose we are clos­est to is Char­lotte Mason.  The house is filled with books and I try and find time most days to read with the boys.

Why learn­ing through life?

The world is a fas­ci­nat­ing place and chil­dren have so much nat­ural curios­ity. We believe the best way to learn is to experience.

Why learn­ing through love?

We love hav­ing our boys around, help­ing them develop and enjoy shar­ing their child­hood. They are thriv­ing in an envi­ron­ment where the edu­ca­tion is tai­lored indi­vid­u­ally to them, where they can develop their inde­pen­dence at a pace which suits them.