What Do You Do About School?
“So… what do you do about school?” Home education while travelling is a topic most people are curious about, and this is generally one of...
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On Mars in the Wadi Rum
“So, what are you doing about gravity?” asks Z. We’re sitting in a resort in Jordan’s Wadi Rum with an old, old friend of mine...
My Son’s Brain Is Weird
Here in Aqaba, a coastal town in Jordan which is gunning for second city status but has all the verve and vigour of Bournemouth on...
9 Life Lessons Children Learn From Travel
After almost two years on the road, I have to say that if I’d known how much children learn from travel, I’d have started travelling...
Homework, AKA Shouty Time
“Do you have homework tonight?” “Yes. It’s quite hard.” “Oh.” We are in our local pizzeria, for a change. The homework thing, after a year...
Back to School!
Can You Take a Child out of School for a Year? I recently came across a parents group arguing against longterm family travel on the...
Our World School: An End of Year Report
For anyone planning longterm travel with kids, anyone who would like to travel and is delaying having kids to do so, or any parents who...
Buddhism: the Planet’s Whipping Boy?
It’s often said, generally by Christians of the scary-to-very-scary variety, that folk can be far ruder about Christianity than any of the world’s “great religions”...
Unschooling. Or Learning as You Go.
It’s a truism that one learns by travelling, and a cliche that travel broadens the mind. From the days when English noblemen embarked on that...
Unschooling Rocks!
Well, I am quite childishly excited today. This unschooling approach has really worked wonders! Parents, grandparents and a never-ending stream of teachers have sweated blood...