All the posts

A list of all the posts about homeschooling published by The Educating Parent on Substack, in categories

Budget

• The Homeschool Spending Trap

• Low on Cash and Worried Homeschooling Will Cost Too Much?

• Affordable education? A different perspective on the cost of learning

Encouragement

• Why you don’t need a teaching degree to homeschool

• How do you know it’s time to homeschool?

• Advice to new homeschoolers - 10 reassuring tips

• The Curriculum of Conversation

• What Not Being a Teacher Taught Me About Homeschooling

• They Are Not Avoiding - They Are Getting Ready

• The Secret Pressure Every Homeschool Parent Feels (And Why It’s Unfair)

• Are expectations trashing your homeschool joy?

• Tired, stressed, overworked homeschooling parent?

• Stop Trying to Make Learning Fun

• When Homeschooling Feels Like and Unfolding Disaster

• At Their Own Pace: Meeting Standards the Homeschool Way

• Stop Comparing: Why Your Child’s Learning Journey Is The Only One That Matters

• Lighting the educational fire

• How shifting our focus from control to connection can transform the way our children learn at home

• There is no ‘behind’, there is only learning at their own pace

• The grass is always greener: homeschool success isn’t what you think it is

• Homeschool holiday blues: coping with relatives who think homeschooling is a bad idea

• When grandparents worry about homeschooling

• I want to say “none of your business”: answering pesky questions about homeschooling

• Are you having one of those rotten awful bad homeschooling days when everything goes wrong?

• When Learning Feels Like a Battle: Rethinking Motivation in Homeschooling

• Don’t change up, tune in instead

Planning, Recording and Evaluating

• “All he does is play PS3 all day”

• So you want to homeschool - start by defining what education means to you

• Your first homeschool learning plan

• Have we done enough? Worrying about the annual homeschool registration renewal

• Why your child’s learning journey is the only one that matters

• At their own pace: meeting standards the homeschool way

• A goal without a plan is just a wish

• How to involve your children in evaluating their homeschool learning

• Talk, draw, discover, record: natural learning tools

• Translating Educational Jargon

• Bingo! Stress-free Homeschool Planner

• Write the homeschooling story no one else can write (recording)

• Using Your Community: A Practical and Inspiring Guide for Home Educators

• Decoding the Invisible: How to Translate PDA Homeschooling Life into Review-Ready Record

• Be your child’s learning partner

• Keep going

• I’d Rimmered myself and got stuck in the planning stage

• Why we need to get rid of the comparing and competition habit as homeschooling parents

• Do we have the right to impose our values onto our children?

• A simple recording hack for your homeschool registration review

Organisation

• Are we doing enough?

• You don’t need a classroom to homeschool

• Homeschooling with Little Ones: Finding Flow in a Busy Family

• A Softer Start to Homeschooling

• Homeschooler’s Self-Care New Year Resolutions

• When School Stops Learning Changes Shape

• How to involve your child in evaluating their homeschool learning

• A simple recording hack for your homeschool registration renewal

• Making Sense of the Curriculum (and Turning It Into Real-Life Learning)

Approaches

• Is Virtual Schooling Still Homeschooling?

• Ten Habits of Living Systems (and what they taught me about homeschooling)

• Turning your home into a learning laboratory

• Using Your Community: A Practical and Inspiring Guide for Home Educators

• Unschooling Explained

• Unit Studies: The Homeschooling Method That Lets You Teach Everyone Together (and Have Fun Doing It)

• Make questions a routine part of your day

• Homeschool excursions: learning beyond books

• Why marking special days — from Anzac Day to International Friendship Day — helps homeschool families connect, learn, and grow together

• Simple, joyful holiday activities that support real learning at home

Reflections / Notes / Musings

• Notes from not so ordinary days - Jan 2026

• Happy New Year! 2026

• Counting Down to Christmas: traditional activities

• Education reviews, planning and recording, singing, movies... a few things I’ve been thinking about this week!

• School holidays and other things I’ve been thinking about lately

• Writing, defining home education, pesky questions and translating educational jargon... just a few things I’ve been thinking about this week!

Free Homeschool Resources Newsletter

• January 2026: Science

• December 2025: Maths

• November 2025: History

• October 2025: Free all-in-one homeschool curriculum

• August 2025: Whole Curriculum Packages

• Dive in and explore with these 3 free online science resources

Socialisation

• Should I start a homeschooling group?

• The addictive nature of schooled socialisation

• How often and how much should children socialise?

• Homeschooling and social learning: a perfect match

• Reducing Social Anxiety, what actually helps

Homeschool Fiction

• This is the work I care about

• Letting the stories in: How fiction found me again at just the right time

Unschooling

• It’s not child-led learning: my take on unschooling

• Is it okay to play dolls all day?

• Why do we teach kids to hate chores?

• “I’m not very good at school” - a tale about natural learning

• Feast of love: anniversary dinner cooked by our 3 unschooled kids

• Unlearning ‘rescuing’ mode

• When ‘strewing’ fails and why that’s okay

Homeschool Curriculum

• Educational YouTube Channels, Part 1

• Educational YouTube Channels, Part 2

• Low tech, internet free ways to cover learning Digital Technologies

• Add Fun, Subtract Boredom: Everyday Maths Adventures at Home

• Talk, draw, discover, record: natural learning tools

• Turn Special Calendar Days into Learning Adventures

• Adapting to Our Environment (Geography)

• 100 Words

• Creating a teen learning plan for Health

• “I hate maths!”

• What am I learning? Watching a movie

• The only thing better than singing is more singing: adding a tune or two to your homeschooling day

• Worried about your child’s writing?

• My 1990s homeschool media studies ideas list

Homeschool Templates

• A Handy Homeschool Leaflet to Share

• Dream It! Do It! Planner

• Self-Care Poster

• Homeschool Student Self-Assessment Templates

• A Simple Reading Log

• Special Days Homeschool Planner

• Natural Learning Checklist

• A handy template for recording simple homeschool topic explorations

• Learning Skills Checklist

The Homeschool Movement

• Home Educating in Australia: who I am and what I do

• From 1985 to Today: What UNESCO Still Gets Wrong About Homeschooling

• Gold standard in education? Schools defend ‘best practice’, but droves of kids are leaving the system

• SA government education review to consider options for SA non-mainstream schooling