Mar 29, 2023 | creativity, exercise, fun, goals, identity, mindfulness, parenting, play, wellbeing
✅Someone you trust has taken your kids away for the weekend ✅You’re away from home, perhaps somewhere in nature, so there’s no cleaning or DIY niggling at you ✅You don’t have your phone or laptop or internet, so you can’t work – plus you’re...
Mar 22, 2023 | Coaching, family, health, home education, my journey, parenting
It’s was a long battle, but in January we received the news that Oscar will be getting an Educational Health Care Plan. I’m not big on labels, but this feels huge to me. It’s justification that we were right to take him out of school. It’s justification for me to find...
Mar 8, 2023 | creativity, family, fun, identity, my journey, parenting, play, reflections
My dad is mine. Dad taught me to work as little as possible: just enough that I had the time and money to play hard. He was always caving, abseiling, diving, rock climbing, and generally exploring and having a good time. Now in his 70s, his flat is full of science...
Feb 22, 2023 | Coaching, family, home education, parenting
“I’m not doing enough.” This is the main worry I hear from other home educators. It takes time to adjust your expectations of home education and realise you don’t need to fit in with any school curriculum any more. There’s no need to compare what you’re doing to what...
Jan 18, 2023 | Coaching, family, goals, home education, identity, mindfulness, Mums, parenting, wellbeing
Do you just wish you could have a couple hours to yourself? It’s not much to ask, but those couple of hours can be seemingly impossible to find. And when you do find them? You spend them doing stuff you HAVE to do: getting ahead on meal prep, going food shopping,...
Nov 16, 2022 | career, Coaching, family, home education, identity, my journey, parenting
A year ago, I was at the end of my tether: completely burnt out and unable to find anything in my life that I could change to make things better. Following Covid, work was busier than ever, my Mum’s birthday was coming up which I knew was going to be difficult, and my...
