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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

Today we speak to author and home educating father of 3. John, who has been home educating for 19 years, has recently shared his home ed experiences in his new book “this is not a school”. We pick his brains about all things home ed, from how to deal with self doubt and anxiety around homeschooling to how to tackle those trickier subjects like algebra!

To get Johns book head over to Amazon https://amzn.eu/d/13xMnmp

Or listen on https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6956884

Head over to our instagram to see the illustration mentioned in the podcast.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

In this episode we are interviewing an alumni of worldschooling. We'll be asking the questions on everybody's minds about how homeschooling can work to someone who has lived through it and had the same questions asked throughout her life. 

The biggest thanks to Naia for agreeing to come and chat with us, it was so enjoyable talking to her and incredibly interesting to hear her experiences coming from a worldschooled background.

Find Naia on Instagram @djswagzilla 

Check out her blog - https://www.skyrunninggirl.com/

Buy her book - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLG5BH2V?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_A01YZM0Q4C0NM2RCGBKN

Find Naia’s mum Julie on Instagram @wanderschooling 

Or at her website https://www.wanderschool.com 

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️
 In this episode we'll be chatting about some of the questions we have been asked, including topics like 'what have they learnt today?', 'do you have a schedule' and others. We figured this might be a good topic to talk about as it's likely anybody embarking on this journey will get asked these by friends and family at some point.

Time Stamps:
 00:00 - Intro
 02:00 - How do you measure progress when home educating?

08:45 - “What’s he learnt today?!”
 18:55 - Do we have a schedule?
 23:50 - How goes the socialising?
 26:15 - Should he be able to read yet?
 30:36 - Summary

 Links mentioned in this episode:
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/helm/dev/ncc-presentation/page_four.html - this has a very helpful video of how small peoples hand grow, and they aren’t “fully developed” until they’re 14.

 
 As always, thank you so much for tuning in! 
 Got a burning question?! Get in touch via email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com,
 And don’t forget to leave us a review and share the podcast with a friend if you’ve enjoyed it. 
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

In this episode we share with you our decision and the key reasons that ultimately led us to it. We explore some of these reasons in more detail to help understand our mindset around it, and the challenges that we have experienced since making our choice.  We also discuss the future of the podcast!

As always, thank you so much for tuning in! 
Get in touch via email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com,
And don’t forget to leave us a review or share with a friend if you’ve enjoyed the podcast. 
 We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
 See you next time! :)

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

In this episode we look at the age at which children start school in various countries around the world. We try to dig into why these differ so much and whether there are any benefits of starting school earlier rather than later or vice versa, and consequently whether this impacts our thinking around home schooling.

As always, thank you so much for tuning in! 
 Let us know what you think about todays episode! Get in touch via email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com,
And don’t forget to leave us a review if you’ve enjoyed the podcast. 
 We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
 See you next time! :)

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

In this episode we will cover what we have found out about finances, as well as start the discussion around the mental health aspects of home schooling, which is a vast subject!

Links mentioned in this episode:
https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk - to find out what financial help you could get.

 https://youtu.be/fWNJmZAWRNg - the lovely Puerto Rican home educated lady we mentioned

 https://schoolwearassociation.co.uk/cost-of-school-uniform/ If you want to get in touch please find us on Instagram at honeyshouldwehomeschool

As always, thank you so much for tuning in! 
 Let us know what you think by getting in touch via email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com

And don’t forget to leave us a review if you’ve enjoyed the podcast. 
 We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
 See you next time! :)

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

In this episode we will be discussing the questions we have been asked about how our children would get the socialisation they need if they were home schooled. We explore what socialisation means, and try and answer some of the challenging questions sent our way.

Links mentioned in this episode:
www.responsiblehomeschooling.org

Thank you so much for tuning in! 
Let us know what you think and get in touch via email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com,

And don’t forget to leave us a review or share our podcast with a friend if you’ve enjoyed it. 
 We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
 See you next time! :)

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Hello and welcome to our first episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

In our first ever episode, we’re discussing why we’re even considering homeschooling and our concerns about the different ways of educating our children.
 
 Time stamps:
 1:55 A brief history of our school lives and the things we liked/disliked about school

08:24 The list of why school may not be right

•  I hated school!
• Class size
• School doesn’t prepare you for “real life”
• Bullying
• Phones!?
• Under stimulation
• Exams and testing

30:10 The list of why home ed may not be right

•  My sanity/fear/ too much time with my kids?!
• Socialisation
• Financial Reasons

 38:45 Summary

Links mentioned in this episode:
Class size information for the UK

 Thank you so much for tuning in! 
 Let us know what you think and get in touch via email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com
 And don’t forget to leave us a review or share our podcast with a friend if you’ve enjoyed it. 
 We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
 See you next time! :)

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

 Today we’re discussing the UK curriculum (mostly primary curriculum) and whether we need to or even ‘should’ follow it?
 
 Most of the information discussed today can be found on the gov.uk website here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
To find the info on how academies work head here - https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/academies#:~:text=Academies%20have%20more%20control%20over,it%20must%20become%20an%20academy.
To find the statistics mentioned about academies head here - https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk
To read more about the evolution of the curriculum head here - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmchilsch/344/34405.htm
To read the article about introducing computing to the curriculum head here - https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/englands-computing-curriculum-a-clash-of-values-beliefs-and-purpose
To read the article by Mr Joshua Vallance - https://mrvallanceteach.wordpress.com/2021/03/13/curriculum-what-are-we-really-talking-about/
To see the adorable video of Japanese children learning about bus etiquette head here - https://www.facebook.com/kacchalimbooindia/videos/this-is-a-courtesy-lesson-taught-to-elementary-school-children-in-japan/1577289989363419/
To hear Izzy Garbutts speech head here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKrpYo9N5hs&t=52s

As always, thank you so much for listening and if you’d like to get in touch you can drop us an email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com or DM us on FB or instagram. We love hearing from you <3
See you next time :)

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

Today’s hot topic is The “Children’s well being and schools bill”.
 
 WARNING - This episode contains some discussion about murder that may disturb some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. If you would like to skip this part, go straight to 1:55
 If you would like to know more about the case you can read about it here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr3vygvyy7o

To read the full bill go here - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-01/0151/240151.pdf
To check its current status head here - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909

Read some summarized versions of the bill here - https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/the-childrens-wellbeing-bill-what-parents-need-to-know/
and here - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/childrens-bill-to-keep-children-safe-from-exploitation

The article referencing numbers of home educated children in Cornwall - https://hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/cornwall/news/rise-homeschooling-cornwall-since-pandemic/

If you’d like to learn more about the Children’s University after my quite vague explanation, go here! - https://www.childrensuniversity.co.uk

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As always, thank you so much for listening and if you’d like to get in touch you can drop us an email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com 
We love hearing from you <3
See you next time :)

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