Ever since I started blogging about our home education journey I have found myself regularly searching for a place to share posts and meet other home schoolers. Unless I have been been looking in all the wrong places I haven't been able to find one so I thought I would start one here.
I love reading about other families methods of home-education as I often come across an idea which is new to me or find a really useful resource to use with my own children. Here are just a few of my favourite blogs - I will share some more next week. I read the interesting and varied posts by Jax on Making It Up , I'm inspired constantly by Lisa and her amazing experiments over at An Ordinary Life, the reliable and jazzy daily exploits by Katie at The Gallivanters make for great reading and then of course, there is the calming supportive voice of experience from Ross Mountney on her Notebook. All of these lovely ladies blog about home-education and offer support, guidance and inspiration to many, many fellow home educators.
So come and link up here each week on a Thursday with a post about your families style of home education. I hope that it will be easier for us to all find one another, make contacts, form friendships and offer support if we all 'meet up' in one place each week. I'd also be delighted if it was somewhere that families who are contemplating home-education could visit and read about the variety of approaches available because as we all know, no two home based educations are the same.
I suppose I'm thinking of this as a virtual home educators group where we can meet up and share our thoughts on a weekly basis. It could be your favourite post of the week, just an image, an article you have written or anything at all that is about home-education.
This week I have linked to my post about our home-ed group session. I am always being asked about socialisation (aren't we all?) which is why I like to write about our group meet-ups. Do you find that most of the negative comments you get are centred around whether your children socialise enough?What are your well versed responses to these types of questions?
I really do hope to see lots of you linking up here - please spread the word to your circle of bloggy home school friends so that we can all get to know each other and share our knowledge. Don't forget the #100homeeddays meme which is currently circulating in social media land which was started by home-educator and my names sake Pru at CreativelyPaleo.
I will read and reply to all of your posts. You don't have to be a blogger to join in - your comments are welcome, just keep it relevant and nice and please no advertisements! If you are linking up please leave a brief introductory comment so that everyone else knows who you are.
I'm quite excited by the prospect of not having to trawl the Internet to find fellow home schoolers and I hope that you are as well.
Finally, there will be a badge next week which I am currently designing. Tonight I'm calling this the 'Home-Ed' link- up but it might have a punchier name next week.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and link-up.
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