Sorry I haven’t been here for a while. We’ve been so busy recently and I’m just catching up on my blog reading. Great to get here to visit now though :) You asked on my blog recently about homeschooling and here’s the reply I posted there (in case you didn’t see it).

@ Green Mamma, here in the UK homeschooling is known as home education. As the official ‘school age’ here is 5yrs (although most children now start younger), I’m not yet ‘home educating’. However I am already unschooling sunnyboy (unschooling is usually known as Autonomous Education here).

I ‘discovered’ unschooling when I started researching home education and reading books by John Holt, which I’d highly recommend. There are several links in my sidebar about unschooling and I have several posts labeled unschooling, if you want to find out more. Please do ask me any questions you want too :)

MamaTea, ugh, I’m excited about our family’s finding a pre-school, but can you tell I’ve got mixed feelings too? Next year she’ll be old enough to attend a pre-school co-op where parents spend one week every month in the classroom with the kids (and it isn’t an everyday thing either . . . nor this year). Oh gosh, I can feel the guilt in this comment . . . I want to homeschool but then I feel torn about what Annabelle wants and right now it sounds like she wants to “go” to school.

In other words, I’m not entirely positive we “found” a preschool that jives with how “we’re feeling” as much as we’re participating in an educational experiment, :-)

I am enjoying reading about your Days of You and Me.

I’m glad you’ve found a preschool that jives with how you’re feeling. :)