HeyJaredThe Educating Parent
a trusted mentor and resource for countless Australian families embarking on their homeschooling and unschooling adventures
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Answering objections to homeschooling: “how will you cope?” (opens the original)
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You know that feeling you get late at night running back conversations in your head that you had during the day? When you’re composing all the answers you wish you’d given? I do! Here’s one that used to reply often in my early years of homeschooling, and it’s probably familiar to you too. We’ve all had that conversation where a friend, relative or even a total stranger asks: “But what about time for yourself? How will you cope being with your kids all day everyday?”And we mumble some kind of res
A Trillion (opens the original)
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Every week I add another story to my collection of short fictional stories for children. Each story comes with a link to a set of Plot Twister and Thought Sifter Conversation Cards you can use as part of your homeschool English curriculum. I enjoy writing stories about ordinary homeschooled children living ordinary lives playing games, exploring outdoors, solving problems, making mistakes, asking questions and learning together: stories designed to spark conversation, encouraging children to thi
A new (old?) way of educating children (opens the original)
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Did you know that I’ve self-published many booklets in the past, now sold as e-books at Always Learning Books. I’m slowly working that my back catalogue and updating them. Most of what I wrote still holds true and continues to make sense to me, but I can see that learning about autism and neurodivergence, and in particular pathological demand avoidance (PDA), has given me deeper insights into why my beliefs, values and approaches to parenting and homeschooling evolved and why they worked for me
Dad’s Lesson (opens the original)
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Every week I add another story to my collection of short fictional stories for children. Each story comes with a link to a set of Plot Twister and Thought Sifter Conversation Cards you can use as part of your homeschool English curriculum. I enjoy writing stories about ordinary homeschooled children living ordinary lives playing games, exploring outdoors, solving problems, making mistakes, asking questions and learning together: stories designed to spark conversation, encouraging children to thi
Growing the Patience to Let Learning Unfold (opens the original)
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Have you ever been told by someone that they couldn’t homeschool their children because they “don’t have the patience…”?It saddens me when I hear this objection. I couldn’t imagine not having the patience to help my child learn. Sure, we had horrible days when I was ready to tear my hair out, frustrated that no matter what I did or how we approached a subject my child didn’t seem able or willing to learn. Luckily those were relatively rare occasions and became even less frequent as our homeschoo
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