You’re old enough to vote, drive, go to pubs, stay out late and do as you please. Ahh, those heady days of freedom! So, you’ve finished school now. Congratulations! 12 years of slog and hard work are behind you, but the daunting days of tertiary education lie ahead. What do you do now? There are [...]
My wife and I have been homeschooling our two for…what…nine years now, I reckon. I’d like to think that makes us veterans but that implies that we’re somehow experts at this and I’m not sure anyone truly becomes an expert. Oh, sure, you can learn the differences between the American High School Diploma and the [...]
As a full time homeschool mother, wife, taxi driver, “family-medic,” “family-psy-chologist,” cheerleader, cook, cleaner, educator and just in general, a living, breathing human, I recently realized that my biggest dream for my child is to have a decent education that will grant her freedom for her future. As a child, I personally never had the [...]
Dear Homeschooler, In South Africa and worldwide, we are observing a changing paradigm in education. In reflecting on the future readiness of their children and taking on self-responsibility, more and more parents are moving away from state-run education to other alternatives. This is especially evident in the fast-growing movement towards homeschooling – South Africa is [...]
Red Alarm: Registrations Refused The Trust has for some time been aware of the developing problem in KwaZulu-Natal where learners are being refused registration for home education. It seems that the problem is now spreading to other provinces as well. At first these refusals related primarily (to the best of our knowledge, exclusively) to learners [...]
Have you noticed that we live in such a fast-moving society, where kids are struggling to keep up with the basic ways in which we operate in the modern world? Take a moment and think back to how simple things were 25+ years ago, when we still needed to physically go into a bank to [...]
Dancer and performing artist, Andrea Nel, took part at Stagequest SA from the 13th to 17 November 2021. She received a silver medal for her acrobatic solo performance and a gold medal for her lyrical solo performance as well as section winner in that category... she was also part of a acro and lyrical group [...]
Resistance vs. Motivation: When that rascal won't cooperate! One of the things I have noticed with people in general, may it be adults or children, is that we tend to enjoy taking the easiest route. I mean, who wouldn’t, right? It is simply human nature. Why swim upstream and build muscle to get fit, when [...]
I was almost a world authority on Pre-Industrial era stamps. I could see it all, stretching out before me. I would do the lecture circuit, travelling to Monaco and Paris, dining with other stamp greats in the Bahamas, sipping cocktails and waxing forth on English postal reform and the advent of the printing press. I [...]
You’re old enough to vote, drive, go to pubs, stay out late and do as you please. Ahh, those heady days of freedom! So, you’ve finished school now. Congratulations! 12 years of slog and hard work are behind you, but the daunting days of tertiary education lie ahead. What do you do now? There are [...]
