Welcome

If you have found your way here, then either you are a friend or family member come to check up on us lol ( Hello! ) or you are someone curious about or considering home education. (anyone else - well not sure why you'd want to be here lol)

The question I get asked first probably 90% of the time is about home education is - "Is it legal"? - so lets get this one out the way - yes it is - the "powers that be" haven't yet been able to take this legal right away from us - the law in England states that "education" is your legal responsibility as a parent - not school just education - so in law - even if you send your kids to school it is still YOUR legal responsibility to make sure your kids get an education.

For a further explanation of the legal situation and any consultations that the powers that be decide they need to have with us home educating parents - please check out the link to Education Otherwise or EO as it is also known.

You may along the way discover that home ed families are VERY political and many are active in many areas with regard home ed and parental rights - don't let this put you off - we have discovered how precious our children are and the truth about education and we want to do all things to keep the right to continue - after all - who's kids are these anyway - ours or the "states"?

Although we have learned LOADS over the years about home education, we have never really put anything back "out there" so to speak - recently a dear friend reminded me that i enjoy writing and often the content of my emails to said dear friend often ends up more of a political or spiritual rant - and the subject of home ed is something I feel really passionately about - so why not combine the two?

After a bit of consideration I have decided to join the blogging craze - I have kept away until now due in all honesty to the fact I know I can start things and not finish them or keep them up due to schedule ;)

However, to be honest when I considered the possibility of getting rid of a mountain of paperwork which never gets nowhere near as organised as I would like ;) it became more appealing - then, I discovered I could enter the blog as a yearly report to the "powers that be" I was sold.

So grab a cuppa - come on in and have a look around