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If anything was going to make me deeply sociopathic, prone to drug and alcohol problems, violent reactions, depression, unwanted pregnancie...

Mike was just SO RIGHT and the German Prof. approximately 95% wrong in this piece from the BBC World Service. Mike successfully tied the P...

There's an interesting discussion on the merits or otherwise of the Channel 5's Attachment Parenting Programme over at Playing it b...

Ouch, Owwww...ow and general twisting and turning and moither. This is definitely one of the downsides of Home Education! The problem is you...

Here's Spy Blog detailing some of the problems (technological and otherwise) with one of the most sensitive areas in the children'...

Of course it isn't just the Pearls who advocate an utterly unnecessarily cruel approach to child rearing. Here's Hailey on the Ezz...

The Independent has a piece on attachment parenting from a home educator. Rings a lot of bells.

The Home Education GCSE list has contained a good number of success stories. We hear of people who were miserable at school and not doing as...

Blogging life is getting easier all the time, for not only does the ARCH Rights blog cover more or less everything that I would feel oblige...

We're set to record this one: next Friday September 1st at 7.30pm, Channel 4 "30 Minutes" programme is on children’s databases...

Despite risking becoming just a referral site for ARCH blog, I feel compelled to point people in the direction of this one. Here's a ta...

ARCH Blog has more on the problems with the NHS records system computer upgrade. Guess what - it isn't working out too well. And what ...

Jonathan from Liberal England sent this meme this way. Thanks Jonathan. 1.Things that scare me: Iran Asteroids Skiing holidays 2. People wh...

Oh joy! Top of my "to do" list this lovely am: *Fill in tax return and *Find the hornets' nest. The hornets demonstrate qual...

Dr Eamonn Butler has yet another prospective reason to choose home education.

...after doing maths, biology and art . Think we can see where government priorities are pushing things at the mo!

Oh dear...it looks as if there is nowhere to run if Spunky has it right.

With all this talk of A-levels, and the general all round jollity that the latest batch of best-ever results has inspired, I can't help ...

It is the case that most of us discover just how insightful and generally all round brilliant we really are after a couple of glasses of som...

By way of consoling myself as regards the expense of home education, I regularly compare costs with private schooling. A recent estimate fro...