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Being 5 in our home looks like…

September 3, 2015 By Racheous

In our society, being 5 typically means school five days a week for the majority of the day. In our home, we live without school. Being 5 in our home looks like… Freedom. Freedom to learn what he wants, to make mistakes, to run wild and free in nature, to play and learn uninterrupted, to […]

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Why School?

August 22, 2015 By Racheous

Why 5 years of age? Why 5 days a week? Why 6 hours a day? Why is it that when kids turn five in our society they are typically expected to spend hours a day 5 days a week in a government institution? Why do they not get a choice in how they spend such […]

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Standardising Childhood

May 13, 2015 By Racheous

I think a good majority of my readers would agree that standardised testing for young kids isn’t in children’s best interests. I think there’s been enough professionals, TED talks, viral videos and articles proving time and time again that standardised testing doesn’t measure genuine learning outcomes and at worst are harming children and the institutions […]

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Why We Don’t Do Crafts

May 8, 2015 By Racheous

The idea of ‘process over product’ is thrown around a lot regarding kids and creative processes. Still social media platforms like Pinterest and Facebook pages are littered with craft ideas for kids and crafts are so dang popular that I’m scared to write this post. You see, I want to provide a different point of […]

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Socialisation

April 22, 2015 By Racheous

You’ve heard it before. The dreaded S word when homeschooling comes up in conversation. There are tons of great writing out there about it. I wanted to share my take. When I’m asked about socialisation, I will ask back: What do you mean by socialisation?  What is it that concerns you? (because I guarantee we […]

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