When I started this blog it was so that I could keep a personal record of our journey, something to look back on and gain knowledge from. As I progressed, I joined the home ed blog rings and enjoyed sharing and being part of the community. Over time, I've attracted readers from many different circles - and that's great. I've really enjoyed comments and messages, on the blog and privately, and have had the opportunity to help people considering home education as well as receiving advice and support for myself.
I purposely didn't invite family to read this blog because it isn't a full record of what we do, I don't include every nugget of information about our lives, and I didn't want it to become like a school report that those close to me could visit and pick at.
Over the whole time I've been writing, naively, it never occurred to me that family might stumble (intentionally or not) over this blog and what they might make of it and so perhaps I haven't taken as great care over their feelings as I might have if I'd thought it through. It is my place, to rant, share the good days and the bad and I don't want to lose it. I gain a lot from being part of the blogging community.
Over the weekend I have been through every post on this blog, at first to edit - in case I'd said something offensive about family during a bad time that now, out of context, could be seen differently. I have edited a very small amount of things but my overwhelming reaction was that actually this is a nice blog, I'm very confident in the choices we have made about how to live our lives, we have recorded some really special moments here and I have nothing to be worried, embarrassed or ashamed about. Therefore I am opening the blog back up to all readers. The only change being that comments will now be moderated.
I hope new and regular visitors will continue to enjoy visiting here and reading our adventures and that those who visit in order to judge us will be surprised to be proven wrong.
good to have you back. Does indeed seem like a nice blog by a nice person to me :)
ReplyDeleteNice to see it back Hannah, Cameron is a clown!! Did you not tell him if the wind changes he will stick like that, actually on second thoughts I did that to my aspie and it caused no end of discussion and many reasons as to why yet again mum was wrong!
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Agree with Jax. I'm glad you decided to keep the blog :o)
ReplyDeleteIt is a very nice blog and your son is a lucky boy. Glad I will still have the chance to read it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your support ladies :o)
ReplyDeleteThis was just posted on a very old blog post and I wanted to put it here where it is in context.
ReplyDeleteGeorgia said...
Sorry, but it sounds like you and cameron just do whatever you want. I mean 1 hours work a day! come on! I think you should do so more maths with him as you said that he was struggling in maths. I understand why you are home schooling him and I'm not saying you should take him back to school but i think you should do some more work with him.
Sorry again, I don't mean to be nasty it's just my thoughts after reading your blog.
22 June 2009 19:45
Hannah said...
Georgina, you are entitled to your opinion however I think you misread the situation with regards to the 1 hour a day.
1 hour is how long it takes for us to cover the national curriculum work that is done in schools (including extra help with maths) - it takes us an hour because we work one to one, don't do busy work and Cameron doesn't have to compete with 30 other children for attention when he needs help.
For the rest of his time he follows his own interests - you may call that doing what we want - but the education and learning doesn't stop when he stops looking at work books, far from it (perhaps google autonomous education or unschooling for more info). So Cameron is actually covering the work done in school AND learning from following his own interests which prepares him for life in the real world :o)
One to one maths tuition in a school? Pigs are going to fly before that happens but let the Georgia's of this world stay in their cloud cuckoo land
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read about home education and began looking into it for our family, yours was the first blog I came accross and I have been visiting ever since,I have found your blog really inspirational so im glad you decided to keep it open, Cameron looks like such a happy, fun boy and clearly has a fab mum who has his best interests at heart
ReplyDeleteTake care
Bex
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I'm really glad this incident didn't put you off blogging - I love your blog, and I think it shows very clearly how Cameron is getting the education he wants and needs. Love to you both X
ReplyDeletegood for you Hannah! It is one ofthe loveliest blogs I've read, which is unsurprising as you are both lovely in real life too.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for all your comments!
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