Tales from the cupboard

We Home educate.  We have done for many years of my sons life and all of my daughters.  There has been so much misinformation on the news and tv lately about home education with words like radicalisation, child abuse and unseen banded about.  I can only speak for myself, my close home ed friends and the hundreds of friends i have met through social media when i say that i know of no home educated kids who fit any of those phrases.  My children are the happiest, fun loving and most definitely well socialised kids i know, hell, we are never in, let alone have time to lock em up under the stairs Harry Potter style!  They have the freedom to choose how they spend their days, they have a say in their lives without it being dictated and micro managed to the Nth degree.  They can choose to exercise the most basic of human needs such as toilet, food and drink, whenever they need it, and for the most part, experience a fun, exciting and stimulating childhood.  I've seen various discussions of late on tv, most notably the discussion on BBC look north, where people with absolutely no idea how home education works, were discussing and showing their disgust at the very idea.  That would be akin to me discussing rugby and stating how disgusting it is on live TV when i don't know the first thing about it!  So here are some wonderful images of my children at their local Forest school This Green Moon being unseen, abused and clearly miserable!!!!

According to youngling these were hay Highlights!