Teaching on the road.

Teaching Zachary whilst we have been away has been hit and miss. There are big things he has learned that wouldn't have necessarily been taught at home, then there are things that are difficult to teach out of our backpack.
Zach has learned heaps about Asian culture just by being in Asia, In Asia baby's and toddlers are everyone's and it is not uncommon for the waitresses in restaurants to take kids to meet the rest of the staff while Mum and Dad order food. He has seen other religions in practise and learned that people are different.
Sometimes it is hard to teach that not everyone is a friendly waiter or happy tourist, so this would be a drawback, I have tried to instill that its only okay when Mummy says so.

Travelling is such a wonderful thing there are an array of animals in every country. Zach has been enabled to learn about animals in a bigger way than seeing them at the Zoo. Touching animals that you wouldn't very often get to touch in a western country. Seeing animals in the wild that dont exist in our 'so called wild'. These are just some of the things you're kids can learn whilst being away from home for long periods of time.
On long bus trips we work on speech sing lots of songs and go through our ABC, 123, and Shape's and colour books. I suggest getting a good one of all of these in paperback, we keep ours in a plastic folder and they are super light weight. We also have a couple for bedtime which are really good.

Sometimes whilst travelling Zach misses out on socialisation with other kids his age. Dont get me wrong he gets to play with other children because you meet loads on the road in villages, local parks, Play area's, and hell in shops and on the market because a lot of asian people take their kids to work with them. I just would have hoped for a little more social time for him though as he has took a liking to wearing scuba gear outside of the pool!

There is so much to be learned just a plane ride away. So go and book a ticket travel Mummy's! x

When I decided to Home Educate.

My revelation.

Deciding to home educare wasn't a BIG decision for me to make. It was a revelation, I had been searching for something career wise that would give my life meaning, and with life being life nothing came to me.

Then a few month's ago when we started our 5 month long trip to asia I realised this was it. I wanted to be with my son and my future kid's to come, because frankly it is my responsibility to educate him.

I realised yes a public school would be a 'sufficient' education but that wasn't what I wanted, I wanted something more I wanted him to find what he love's not years after he is finished with school but starting from now.

That night I  stayed up all night going through lesson plans, fun projects and I realised there would be no stopping me now. I realised that this was it, this is what my heart has been searching for, something that I already have, my kid by my side learning and changing for the better!