Extraordinary Parenting: the essential guide to parenting and educating at home

Homeschooling — however long you do it for — provides a unique opportunity to build up your child’s knowledge of the world, knowledge which will give them the context for all future learning.

Just keep encouraging that “why”.’

Offering your child the space to ask ‘why’ time and time again is one of the most precious gifts you can give them.

When you say yes to something, you are always saying no to something else.

Anchors are the points in your day that your rhythm hangs onto.

Playful parenting is so much more than just getting down on the floor and ‘playing’; it’s an approach to everyday interactions with children which can help with the hardest parts of parenting — arguments, big emotions, anxiety — and bring more joy into every part of our life. It can help us to reconsider what it means to be a parent, and allow us t

Rhythm allows us to live in alignment with what matters to us, and it teaches our children that these things matter, through regular repetition.

Rhythm is there to be a helpful guide rather than a taskmaster, and it can and should be flexible.

If you have young children, create a visual chart of what needs to happen when.