I was recently chatting with a friend whose child is attending a “school readiness” program at a private school. She joked that she wasn’t really sure what that actually involved. I said that I felt the title was quite misleading as many parents enrol their…
When I recently wrote an article about products replacing parents I failed to mention this is just the tip of the ice-berg. Today, as a culture we are outsourcing more and more of our parenting responsibilities not only to products but to other people in the form…
I recently spoke with a school teacher who was looking forward to retiring. After a little probing she reluctantly admitted that she wasn’t enjoying teaching anymore. She said, “kids these days have little respect for adults and each other. They just aren’t very nice kids”.…
I don’t think homeschooling is for everyone. In fact, I didn’t think it was for me. I wrote about modern mothers choosing to homeschool last year. Homeschooling has always intrigued me but I never thought I would actually take the plunge. I was concerned my kids would…
This has always my perception of the home-schooled family. But here is the modern homeschooling family! Look! They seem almost….normal! In the last few years I have come across mums who homeschool or who were homeschooled. What was once a foreign concept full of harsh…