We've been considering homeschooling our children since before they were born. The education system model simply doesn't fit our family's way of parenting. There are lots of reasons parents might choose to home school their children - here are just a few. We'd love to hear  your reasons to home s

I've noticed where we live, the primary (elementary) schools are increasingly looking like prisons. Surrounded by iron fences, topped with barbs, with chained gates that are locked as soon as the school day starts. My two youngest sisters are attending a government school, where the students are

Here's a fun chemistry project for your older children! Epsom salts are magnesium sulphate, and are soluble in water. What you are doing is creating a solution of water and Epsom salts, and then saturating it slightly (So not all of the salt crystals dissolve) You can suspend a string in the solu

Whether you home school, public school or private school we all need school supplies. While we all try to go green on many things, one thing often overlooked is school supplies. Here is a list of some awesome and I dare to say "cool" natural school supplies. Backpacks / Lunchboxes Did you

One of my favourite times of  day, is when we all sit down and share a story as a family. We've been reading to both of our boys since they were in utero. Not for any reason other than the fact that we love stories, and wanted to chat and share with them. It's been an amazing journey so far,