12 Things you Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking

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I read this really interesting article today and I wanted to share it with you. I have a number of reasons why I decided to home educate my son. However, one reason was I really did not want to stifle his creativity by sending him to a mainstream school. This article really resonated with me and so I thought I would share it with you. I am sure that most homeschooling parents will agree with a lot of what is being said. 

30 Vlogs in 30 Days

Hey homeschooling parents! I hope you are well. I just wanted to let you know that I am currently doing 30 days of vlogs over on my YouTube channel.  I love doing these vlog challenges because it pushes me to come up with new material, and I think it also helps people to see what you are doing on any given day when you are a homeschooling family. I really enjoy vlogging, and I love posting something every day. It is great because it gives you a visual record of what you do each day.

Homeschooling in pictures

Here are just a few pictures from the past couple of days. Enjoy ! 

Homeschooling Vlog: Budding Photographer and Park Discoveries

30 Days of Vlogging : Our Homeschool Days

Hi homeschooling parents!

I just wanted to check in with you guys and let you know that I will be doing 30 days of vlogging on my YouTube channel. I will be vlogging our homeschool days for the next 30 days to show you what we get up to on a day to day basis as a homeschooling family. The vlogs will mainly show the work we do, and they will also show when we go out on field trips.

Since we do not officially do school on the weekends, we will only be vlogging Monday to Friday for the next 30 days, not including the weekends.

If anyone is interested in joining in, head on over to the YouTube channel and subscribe to keep up to date with our videos. I would love to see your vlogs too, so comment on our videos to say you are doing the 30 days of vlogging too and I will head on over and subscribe to your channel too.

Peace and Blessings

Abena xxx

Why I will never send my child to another Montessori School

For those of you who are new to reading this blog, you might not be aware that I did originally send my son to school. It was a Montessori school, and he was there for 4 months. I took him out for a number of reasons, I will not go into that now. However, the main reason I will never send any of my children to a Montessori school is ; many Montessori schools do not employ all Montessori staff. 

The school that my son went to was generally a decent school. However, there were four teachers in the school that were not trained in the Montessori method. Which caused a lot of confusion for the children. As far as I am aware any school can use the name Montessori, the school might have three Montessori trained teachers in the school and the rest of them can have no Montessori training whatsoever. 

I don't want to generalise here because there are many great Montessori schools. I also very much believe in the Montessori method but if a school is asking you to pay huge fees to teach your kids in the Montessori way then all the teachers should be trained. Otherwise you might as well send them to a conventional  private school or a state funded school. I decided to go against the grain and homeschool. Most people might think I am completely crazy but really to be a homeschooling mum, you kind of have to be a bit of a rebel to have the guts to do it in the first place. 

Homeschooling is Freedom

I feel free, my son feels free, homeschooling is the perfect slice of freedom for both of us. The bliss of waking up in the morning and realising that we do not have to make it through that dreadful robotic school run. My son used to some days feel physically sick in the morning because he simply did not want to go to school.

Homeschooling Gives Me and my Family Freedom

When my son started going to school (he want for three months ) I felt free, but trapped. Sounds paradoxical right ? Well, I felt free because when u dropped him off I could go about my daily business without stressing about what my son. However, I felt trapped because I had to rush every morning to take him to school. It was a struggle, if I wanted to book a holiday I had to organise it around the school terms. By the time the first term ended I was exhausted! I was totally frazzled and so was my four year old son. Something clicked in my head, this was not right for us! My son then told me he was basically getting bulled. Then I thought, this is the perfect time to pull him out of school. I did it and I have not looked back.

Sunny Sundays and Sleepless Nights

Sunny morning in East London: Time for reflection 

As I sit down to write this post, it is a sunny Sunday morning, and I have had 30 minutes of sleep. Not much I know, this is my first post on here, and I have all these thoughts rushing around my head.

Let me start by explaining why I decided to home educate my son. My son is four years old, I had a bad experience sending him to nursery when he was three years old, so I took him out. He started reception class in September 2013. Everything was going well when he started telling me that he did not want to go to school. I questioned him, he just said he wanted to stay with me. Then the teacher told me she thought he had a problem with his hearing and that he does not listen well. I took him for a hearing test, they did not detect anything.