Homeschooling is a bad idea, and there are plenty of great reasons that you shouldn't homeschool your children. I know, because I hear them all the time! Maybe you do too? Everyone seems to know ALL about homeschooling, even if they've never done it, and they're very...

  Homeschooling without depression is like a bushwalk that's a little beyond your fitness level. It's hard. At some points you want to quit, but the regular glimpses of beauty are reward enough to keep plodding along.   Homeschooling with depression is like...

You know those times when life is just a total mess and everything falls apart? We had one of those recently. It involved weeks of caring for a close family member in the final stage of cancer and the inevitable result, bookended by 5000kms of...

  It's nearly Christmas, so how about a present for everyone? People have been incredibly generous in recording their homeschooling days for me, and allowing me to publish them. I’ve collected all of the 2016 submissions and put them together into an ebook. And...

If you don't come along to the awesome Australian Homeschooling Summits or haven't done Zero to Homeschool, you may not know a great deal about me - I'm definitely a behind-the-scenes person. But Kylie from The Homeschool Sweet Spot has dragged me out of my cave and...

  I have a problem with the title of this post. Yes, I wrote it, but it needed to be short, snappy and clear to people who were looking for information.   How I Facilitated my Five Children in Becoming Confident, Voracious Readers was simply too long and...

Bekah is an Australian mum of three children aged 8, 6, and 5 months, whom she eclectically homeschools. Here she shares how homeschooling gets done as well as possible around a grouchy baby.

Teaching your kids to read can be SCARY. Really scary! Reading is the foundational skill that will influence your child's success in virtually every area, which is intimidating enough - but then when you begin looking at how to teach your kids to read you run into a...

  This post is part of the Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Styles series - view the entire series here     So many homeschooling styles - how do you decide which one to use? How do you even COMPARE them when they're all so different?!   One way is...

Dani and her family are currently travelling and unschooling around Australia. Here’s what a typical day in their life looks like, complete with breathtakingly beautiful bush surroundings.