Home Schooling

[2sp_]

How do you go about home schooling your children? Not for me, but a friend is thinking about it for her wee boy.

Do you have to be trained or hold any particular qualification to do it? Do you have to follow a set syllabus?

(She's in Scotland, if that makes any difference.)

[2sp_]

I think she's starting to turn herself in knots trying to make the "right" decision about his education. He's an only child and they spent over 10 years trying to conceive, so she does tend to overthink her parenting at times.

She just wants the best for him. Poor soul, sometimes I think she's too busy trying to do everything right that she's not enjoying just being a mum.

[jim360]

Now that I know it's a five-year-old we're talking about I'm inclined to retract what I said earlier. Young children are better off spending some time in school, when it's less about learning actual subject stuff and more about learning to interact with other children and having fun. She should, I think, keep home-schooling light, some support in the afternoons, that sort of thing, and only really start to think about home-schooling at a later age.