Home Education - how many hours 'schooling' do you (as a parent) need to provide

[KatyMac]

Please

TIA

Bingo!
The experienced home educator/childminder/mumsnetter I spoke to you about offlist Katymac, saying I hoped she would see the message, has just posted!

Waves to Mehetabel!

Thanks everyone - I did make that clear (I hope - I was quite blunt)

I think there is actually a real market for HE-friendly childminders btw.

There is a woman in EO who has a list of CMs who are willing to take on HE'd kids, so its not unknown.

.....can I get on the list??

Well actually I better wait to see if it works tbh

oh I am sure you will be fabulous! iirc you are in norwich? ah well...

it is interesting to see this from a CM perspective though. I have been wondering about looking into a few hours a week CM care for my older 2 (4 and nearly 3 but the 4 yo will be school age from sept) and was not sure what CM rxns would be

I think that the older child is always of benefit to younger children and my days flow better during the holidays when I have the older children. Even that after school time is calmer than it should be with that many children.

Of course there are individual children who don't help the atmosphere - but that is often due to particular issue rather than the situation. I have had to let a few older children go - usually they were unused to boundaries

Yes I am Norwich way - but if it works, you never know I might be able to talk on Woman's Hour about it

ShrinkingViolet - your post about hours of education reminded me of something I recently discovered as part of a training course that I did. In the case of primary schools, every single child (assuming they don't need extra support for whatever reason) between the ages of 4 and 11 only actually get the equivalent of 7 days one-to-one teaching EVERY YEAR.
Seems like HE has a lot going for it.