Wobble wobble...does anyone fancy reassuring me?!

[msbaublestwinkle]

We autonomously ed our 5 and 2 yo DDs and have another one due soon, so this is probably a pregnancy hormone related wobble!

Anyway, I regularly wobble that I am not 'doing' enough with the DDs. Our weeks usually involve one or two playdates, a visit to each set of grandparents and a lot of time spent at home. At home, they watch a lot of TV, play a lot of imagination based games, draw and paint quite often, play computer games occasionally and spend a large amount of time in the bath!

We do bigger days out about once a month, and have a HE group meet once a fortnight (we don't always get there at the moment due to pregnancy stuff!).

I really had my HE confidence knocked this summer by a very aggressive visit from an CME officer which was followed by a visit from the health visitor as 'no one has seen the children'. I sorted that quickly and they have no concerns, but I have been aware of wobbling more since then!

Well the CME officer will think he did a good job then, if he made you rethink your HE choices.
I'm a child health care professional-HVs GPs Paediatric Nurses etc are not told anything about HE, so of course they think it's normal only to go to school.

Your children are only 5 and 2! In Scandinavia children don't even start formal work until they are seven.
Now if you think about it, if early years schooling really made that much difference to outcomes, you'd think the children UK would be way in front of Scandinavian children by the time they are 11 and 13, wouldn't you?
In fact British children are well behind at that age!

Relax your home ed sounds perfectly suited to young children.

How do you mean "aggressive" CME officer? CME write to ask you what educational provision you were making for your 5 yo because not on a school roll and you would either not reply or say "home educating" or "private arrangement" (some people still trying this last one I gather)? You mean someone from CME came round to your house and quizzed you about home education? This is against the CME regs!