2. Home Educating Wildlings - Our School Journey and Why We Chose Home Education

01/19/22 • 32 min

In this second episode of Home Educating Wildlings I’m going to talk you through our brief journey with school and why we decided that school wasn’t the right path for us as a family. I’ll talk about the day we got our eldest’s official letter about choosing a school, right through to how we live and learn now. You’ll get to hear my son talk about his personal experience with school and why he prefers home education.
Now let me be clear – this is our experience and our opinions. I’m not preaching and I’m not here to persuade anyone to change their lives. This is our story, our journey.

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1. Introducing Home Educating Wildlings Podcast

Welcome to the very first Home Educating Wildlings Podcast!
This podcast is hosted by me, Kiki, a home-educating mum to two boys in Warwickshire, UK. I'm incredibly passionate about our no-school life choice and feel compelled to encourage others who seek different. School is one way to learn - not the 'only' way. It is not for every child or family. By shining a light on our journey from a brief school experience with our eldest to our now unschooling, self-directed learning way of life, I hope I can give others the opportunity to see an alternative path.
So whether you’re new to home educating, thinking about it or you’re already forging your own home ed path - I hope you'll enjoy this podcast.
On the very first episode of Home Educating Wildlings I’ll be sharing some of our journey so far – our home ed way, how we got here, my lockdown enlightenment and the beauty we have carved out in our everyday life. You can expect honesty, insight, all the emotions and, most of all, encouragement. Because it can feel like a lonely path sometimes when you decide to break the mould but knowing that others are out there living it can be incredibly empowering.
You can find out more about us over at www.educatingwildlings.co.uk and on the gram @kiki_and_the_wildlings. I look forward to connecting!

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3. Home Educating Wildlings - The Gift of Time

Home education, for us, is the gift of time.
One of the main reason we decided to home educate was to take back our precious time. Time to spend not only together as a family but time to invest in the things we all individually love. Time to adventure in nature, explore diverse places, meet people of mixed-ages and dive deep into our interests. Time to really connect with one another, to spend time on our own to explore our thoughts and get to know ourselves. Time to think freely, to dream and time to nourish our souls.
Our wildlings are free to use their time as they choose - in play, passion-projects, discovery, daydreams, family-time, nature, stories and so much more. They have their emotional, social, educational, developmental and physical needs met. They get to pace themselves without the pressure or coercion of school.
The beauty of home education is that you get to set the pace. You can ebb and flow to the needs of your family. You have all the time in the world to spend as you all desire. There is no race, no deadlines, no rules, no pressure. You can live a life of contentment, joy and interest by self-pacing yourselves. You are the keepers of your own time.