A family's homeschooling, lifestyle and adventures.
First Tour to South Africa: September 2022. Preparing for the tour… Once the travelling team was chosen, including Paula Joy, it was time to get some serious coaching and to up their training schedule. Paula Joy’s school work also needed to be up to date… Fortunately, she thrives on being kept busy and always makes …
Homeschooling Adventures and Activities – Year End 2022. Year End – Activities: Homeschooling. Mum’s Health. As you have probably noticed, I have not posted anything for three months!.. Towards the end of the year, my health took a serious tumble… This eventually resulted in a period in hospital, for tests, then major surgery at another …
The Women’s U19 Cricket Team Journey Begins… Women’s U19 Cricket Team Trials. Dawn in Harare – Zimbabwe, Africa. It’s a chilly winter’s morning in Harare. Many local cricketing girls are up, before sunrise, in order to catch public transport, to the first day of cricket trials for the Zimbabwe Under 19 Women’s World Cup. With …
Incorporating Buying a New Home into Our Homeschooling Journey. New Property Research. We love involving our children in all our decision making. It’s always fun to get their input and bounce ideas off them. Children, generally, see things so differently to adults, which makes for some interesting discussions. For a number of reasons, we decided …
May Adventures and Activities. May Activities: Homeschooling. Winter Arrives. As May begins, so does winter… Fortunately, on our farm we experience very mild winters, which is wonderful. Homeschooling Timetable. We pushed hard with schooling, throughout the month, and managed to do schooling around the training of our horses. On many days we would ride in the mornings …
January Adventures and Activities. January Activities: Homeschooling. Back to School for 2022. School began on the 3rd January, as we like to get an early start… This means that we can take a break in late February or early March. The children had a wonderful 6 week break over the festive season and are now …
As a Parent are You Teaching Your Child to have ‘An Attitude of Gratitude’- or of Entitlement? What is Gratitude? Gratitude: ‘The quality of being thankful; with a willingness to show appreciation for, and to return kindness. Gratitude is a state of mind. Gratitude expressed, touches hearts, opens up and humbles people. Gratitude enriches, elevates, …
Learn these 4 Intelligence types, in order to boost your child’s overall development. Parent’s Goals. Our goal as parents, is to help in our child’s all round development, in order to set them up to cope and achieve throughout their lives… ‘Do not prepare the road for the children…Prepare the children for the road’. Tim Edmore. Parenting can be challenging …
How I Embrace Freedom with Responsibility, Each and Every Day, as I Homeschool My Children. Homeschooling Freedom on the Farm. Homeschooled farm children certainly have the best of both worlds, as far as schooling, farm life, responsibility, space and freedom are concerned… I like to make use of what we have around us, in order …
June Adventures and Activities. June Activities: Homeschooling. School Year. Our academic school year runs from June to June, which is different from the mainstream schools. I have found that I have more time in the middle of the year to tackle the school programme payments and to organize the shipping. This takes the pressure off the …