Anyone in the Central South Coast area?

[MiloandAmeliasMummy]

Hey,

I'm Beth and we have two children, a 12 month old and 3 year old (4 in May) and after a lot of talk we've decided we're definitely taking the plunge and home educating. I'm nervous -- what if we F up and damage our kids, but I'm also really excited.

We've made the pre-school aware (not taking son out of there as they're lovely and he loves it) that he will not be starting big school and we made contact with local groups last week. We're going along to a couple of the groups next week and one of the ladies even came round our house last friday, leant me some books and was really friendly and encouraging.

In a bid to make more connections with home educating parents, especially those with children of a similar age I thought I'd post on here. We're blogging about it on our site btw (not a home ed blog but featuring a home ed blog if that makes sense) www.littledoers.com

Hope to meet some more families

Happy New Year

Beth

Hi Beth
I'm very near you indeed, have seen your posts on the local boards. My children are quite a bit older than yours, 9 and 6 and have never been to school. We don't tend to attend group activities as they aren't really keen on them. They prefer to play with local friends after school or see home ed friends on a one to one basis.
There are some lovely families about locally though with similar age children to yours so I am sure it won't take long for you to build up a nice network.
Any questions feel free to ask. We can be seen here lifeloveandliterature.co.uk/

Hey thanks for getting in touch. checked out your blog. I really like the idea of projects and plan on doing lots in the future. I think it's so important to learn through doing.

We went to our first group today and it was really nice and relaxed, just like a big play group without the negatives. Think we're going to stay away from teh structured learning groups as we prefer something in the middle. We're writing about our "journey" (sounds so American calling it a journey, I'm not a soundbite twa* really) on our site/blog www.littledoers.com

Has your son brought up the school question again?

No he hasn't and keeps wanting me to book tickets for things (loves the theatre!) which he won't be able to do if he goes. Think he has cooled dramatically on the idea but we'll see.
Portsmouth is a lovely group with a nice set up for younger ones.