As someone who is a very strong advocate for schooling and schooling children well, going to both a private and public school, as well as recently finishing my first university degree, I know the importance and value of education.

HOWEVER, school, especially primary school, now has so many alternative options… with so many online resources now the ability to home school your children has never been easier. In fact, it could be better.

Traditional school curriculums are constantly under scrutiny for disregarding the individual and what works best for them, the breaks they need and personalised assistance necessary. Being able to work one on one with your child will ensure they are getting the support they need.

It was on my own travels that I found my passion for writing… As a 10 year old, I would ensure that each day I would write about my ventures, not only did this make me think about the day and what I had learned but also how to communicate those ideas.

To go a step further, in my spare time (because you have a lot) I not only wrote fantasy books but also rewrote those books in other made up languages.

If your child is mathematical, from experience my curiosity with numbers only flourished as math became a problem-solving game, counting the various sea life I would spot in a day.

All the more for a scientific child, there are so many opportunities to question why the world is the way is it… Why are there sunsets? Why does the ocean sparkle at night? How many planets are there and what are their names? How many species of birds are there? What are the names of the different fish?

Nick and Lyndy, the owner of Katsumi a Lagoon 400 have been sailing Australia with there children and have created a blog talking about homeschooling and unschooling…

Here’s what they have to say…

“Learning happens in lots of different ways…

The girls have been keeping up with their diaries, watching loads of Horrible Histories on long passages to keep busy, cooking, doing chores, playing games (including a wasgij jigsaw puzzle with 1000 pieces and only clues as to what the puzzle should look like.) 

We’ve chosen unschooling, where you just let your kids be kids and secretly tick things off as they happen. Unschooling is not following a prepackaged curriculum exactly ie: in the order, it’s being taught in the schools. It’s more just following the kid’s lead and nurturing what they want to learn.

Lastly, don’t worry about ‘socialisation’. It’s a common misconception that homeschooled kids are poorly socialised.”

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