I made a cake yesterday all by myself!

I used a cake mix so it really wasn’t too complicated, other than it literally said “add oil water and eggs = cake” so I almost didn’t put in the actual cake mix LMAO, I was a tiny bit scared of the oven but I did it! It’s very yum

Talking about cake and trust

One of the things that really helped me was my mum trusted me, and she trusted I knew my way around the kitchen enough to make a cake! When you trust your child to their level of skill and knowledge what your doing is trusting them to spread their wings a little and grow into their own person, when you don’t trust your child you leave them open to be manipulated and many other bad things, take for example checking their phone, any “traditional parent” might think that helps keep your child safe when in reality your practically guiding your child to find a way to use the internet and post things where you can’t find it. You’re guiding them to unsecure websites, and unsecure people! But there are levels to this, when I was about 8-9 ish my mum and older sister Checked my phone occasionally because my level of skill and knowledge wasn’t at the point where I could spot an unsafe person before it’s too late. And it’s not just me! My mum trusts both my brothers to their level of skill and knowledge and she helps them with the things they express they struggle with and trusts them to do things she knows they can. Taking my talking point back to the cake when it was time to put icing on the cake my mum came in to help me! Because I had never iced a cake before and she knew I would be sad if my cake turned out not-nice looking, and I struggled at first with it because I was happy in the kitchen on my own but I’m even more happy that my cake turned out ok! Moral of the story, trust your kids to their level and knowledge and they will prosper <3

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Hii! Unschooled *kid* here, and I would love to tell you about my experience if you so choose to listen ♡ I go to homeschool meet ups all the time and meet all kinds of kids, and one of the things I suggest is go to them! My mother has expressed that she finds some of the other mums difficult for those same reasons so I totally hear you on this, but what my mum has also expressed is she’s made a few really good friendships and a homeschool meet is where I met some of my closest friends, one other thing I suggest is find one family you can really get along with. Me and my 2 brothers have been hanging out with these 2 boys for as long as I can remember and their mum is like an auntie to me, and sometimes some of the other families are too much so we just see them. If your kids are still little (3-11 ish) it’s a good time to just find a good support system, but remember there’s no pressure! That’s the whole point of this lifestyle isn’t it, lol. My biggest suggestion though is be as open as you can be, what you immediately see about “mackkenzeigh “ and her mother is their a little bit weirdo hippies, but what you might not know is mackkenzeigh might like art, or gaming, or dinosaurs, just like one of your kids might!, remember Home-educating is a journey and has it’s difficult moments but I promise it will get better! ❤️‍🩹

i homeschool my kids and sometimes i think "oh it might be fun to connect with other groups that homeschool" so i will make the mistake of looking up groups on fb or reddit and it's always the worst mistake. it's just either full of influencer tradwives who micromanage their kids' education for content, manic dumpster fires who are having to wrestle their turdy kids who hate homeschooling to get them to do anything, or negligent unschooling hippies who think it's totally fine that mackkenzeigh is 9 and can't read. there's no in-between.

In my experience it was never to “fill a void” I occasionally study and do math work because it’s fun for me! why schooled children hate doing those things is because there’s that *pressure* to do it. They literally have to, but for us unschoolers that pressures off, so we enjoy education and educating ourselves because humans have an innate desire and curiosity of learning, if you are feeling as if you need to “fill a void where education should’ve been” maybe you should pursue formal education like college or university! (Assuming your too old to just go to middle-high school)

WHAT I'VE OBSERVED:

Kids who are unschooled, tend to do school-related things.

If you were or already are unschooled [aka, your parents pulled you out of school one day as a kid and let you figure out the rest.], is this true for you? [I.E: Creating book reports for yourself, doing random bursts of math to try and teach yourself...this literally just amounts to trying to simulate school activities as a means to "fill the void" where education should've been.] so, in short...

Why hello there !

Im Niamh! and one thing you might not know about me is I grew up homeschooling. I would like to use my blog to spread knowledge about home-educating ! Other than an occasional post abt Sabrina carpenter album or a rant about my favourite video game, home-educating is what I will post about. I’m completely open to questions and queries about my lifestyle, other than “WHATS YOUR ADRESS” lol, im in A LOT of fandoms, so prepare for a ride if you so choose to take a seat, happy scrolling ♡