We’ve been part of the home-education community for 15 years, since our eldest was 3 years old. In the early days it was still a life...

… of freedom, meaning and celebration… and of my being ‘othered’ for my parenting choices Dear Ethan, Now that you’re 18 you have reached...

Why Adopting an Annual Spring Cleanse will put a Spring in Your Step! I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’ve not fully shrugged off...

Here's why I love it... One thing I love about NVC is its roots. It grew out of one person’s desire to create peace in a neighbourhood....

Thoughts shared in honour of International Women’s Day (8th March) It’s often the mums who make the decision to home-educate, sometimes...

It's hard being isolated and it can be tricky forming a group Choosing to home-educate initially left me isolated and that was hard....

From circles to celebrations! As a home-ed co-op we learned that it’s not only natural to want to transfer to a new role, but it’s very...

A nourishing social space for the benefit of parents as well as children. I joined the Bristol Home-ed community 14 years ago with my two...

...especially if you'd like it to be a regenerative one. Getting out of the house to be around other home educating families often...

Drop-ins, sign-ups, drop-offs and co-ops From the family unit to organised groups, to the village and co-housing. Home-educating...

In Nature, In Community January is often a time when people could do with having their spirits raised. It can be a cold, dark and lonely...

I was raised according to a system of medicine that favours synthetic suppressive medicine, and in a western culture of...

A little piece about what happened when I stripped out the mainstream. When was the moment I decided to strip out the mainstream way of...

Let nature flow through you Let me introduce you to John Young’s 8 Shields Model. It is a powerful mirror that acts to orientate us...

In Nature, In Haiku, In Connection This morning I began Beth Kempton’s Winter Writing Sanctuary. Two poems inspired by nature invoked a...

Nourish and restore your connections this winter The saying goes, “a change is as good as a rest”, and the winter holiday is definitely a...

1.      Sleep Cues & the Circadian Rhythm Bodies love a rhythm. The trick to easy sleep is to find your grove. There are ways to support...

We can’t be happy all the time. We’re not superhuman. In fact, we are only human, and it is our humanness that gives us our range of...

It can be hard to stay in health whilst home-educating during the winter. There may be less meet-ups and classes happening, less...

It’s usual practice in our culture to carry on as normal when a cold strikes, especially when children are within the school system. It’s...