We’re in a very fortunate position to have the opportunity to take our kids travelling for a year if we want to. We just need to decide if it’s a good idea.
- We’ve lived abroad for a decade and we’re planning to come back to the UK. We’ll be changing jobs/schools anyway so could take a gap year before we come back.
- The kids will be 9 and 7 (we’d come back to the UK in time for them to start year 6 and 4).
- We own a home in the UK so we know where we’re moving back to. Although I have no idea how this would affect school applications etc.
- Both kids like travelling (we’ve done a lot since they were babies), we’ve done full summers but at a pretty slow pace and obviously only for 7 weeks during summer holidays.
- Both kids are doing well academically at school, we’d do some home schooling whilst we travel but it obviously isn’t the same as being in school.
- Both kids are very sociable and make friends easily. They also get on well with each other (usually!)
- Financially we could do it pretty comfortably without having to make too many other compromises (I realize how fortunate this is).
- Family would fly out and meet us at various points for a couple of weeks at a time.
In our position would you do it?
If so, where would you go? I’d love to hear tips from anyone who has done it or anyone who homeschools kids this age.