Good Friday commemorates the reason for the season and Sarita Holzmann, co-founder and president of the literature based curriculum company, Sonlight, is going to be with me for my whole show. We will talk about this holiest of holy days in the Christian Church calendar. We will explore the secular and the sacred and read favourite passages…

My guest this week is a homeschooling mother who speaks at national conferences in the United States and has also traveled to Europe as an advocate for children with learning challenges. Kathy Kuhl, author of “Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner,” graduated from William and Mary College with a teaching certificate in mathematics and English. She holds workshops…

April is Child Abuse and Prevention month and this Friday I am thrilled to have Dean Tong as my guest. Dean is a nationally recognized expert on the topic of false child abuse especially among homeschoolers. We will talk about what to do and not to do if you have been falsely accused. Mr. Tong’s book, Elusive Innocence, contains…

Dear friends The main purpose of this update is to let you know that the Crowther concert on the 17th is at 3 not 4 pm in St Peter’s. Sorry, my mistake. It’s been a difficult as well as a wonderful week. Poor Jake has been in hospital again being fitted with a tube through his…

  Have you caught yourself telling your children how they should be feeling: “that didn’t hurt!” or how long they can shed tears: “that’s enough, you can stop crying now.” Do you expect your children to say “please” and “thank you,” to be polite? Do you insist they are respectful of adults, not whine or…

Dear Friends, At last I get a chance to write to you all! Since the last missive we sent you things have really been ‘on the up’ for me and I’ve been having the most wonderful, if slightly exhausting and hectic time. I’ve begun to start attending the Royal Academy of Music again part time and…

This week I am broadcasting from London and will be talking to Laura Lee Ellis and her husband, Nick, who live, work and raise their son, in Oxford. They are lifelong homeschoolers and are going to be offering tips on how to thrive in higher education and fulfilling work while standing out from the crowd…

Linda Dobson certainly knows how to homeschool, she talks about it, writes about it, blogs about it and teaches families how to enjoy and thrive through the homeschooling lifestyle. She and her family began their journey in 1985 and she served as The National Home Education Network‘s first public relations advisor in 1999. Join us on Friday…

I am happy to welcome Mike Donnelly, a staff attorney for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, to my show again this week. For those of you who have listened to the past conversations we have enjoyed you will know by now that Mike is a well spring of information for all of us. This week will be…

We have had the most awful week. In a single few days we lost two dear members of our family. Our cousin’s son Tom and Jonathan’s lovely sister Jane both died within a few days of each other. As many of you know Jane had been ill for a very long time, though for most…

    My guest on Friday is Debbie Harbeson, author of the hilarious, free, online book, Okay Kids, Time For Bedlam. Debbie is a freelance writer, website designer, reading tutor and computer coach, who lives in Indiana. She has a blog where homeschooling families from all over the United States and the world have answered her four…

Jacob is currently feeling much better. I think alternative medicine and prayer is more successful than all that toxic chemo and radiotherapy at the moment. It’s such a relief that he is able to enjoy music and a degree of independence this month. Thank you for your constant prayers, please keep praying specifically for his…

Your prayer has borne the most marvellous fruit, Jacob has this week played in three concerts, won a prestigious music competition, bought a new bicycle, been for a ten mile ride with Ben and stayed with friends in London three nights, he is planning four more concerts in London, Oxford, Folkestone and Canterbury in the…

    This week I’m talking to the second of a series of experts especially invited to help homeschool students plan for their future and choose a career that suits their individual talents and personalities. My blue eyed cowboy has agreed to join us for a cuppa and a look behind the scenes of a…

  Ever wonder where children think money comes from? Listen this week as Amanda van der Gulik shares with us the responses she received when she asked this question of some of her young acquaintances. Amanda home-schools her two children ages 7 & 9 and in her spare time she is a wealth-mentality coach for parents. As…

Imagine not being able to exercise your parental rights to bring up your children the way you want to and educate them if you so desire. Imagine an education officer knocking on your door and legally gaining entry to your house, no warrant needed. Now imagine that same person insisting on interviewing your children, one…

    Come and have fun with me this week as I talk to another homechooled homeschooler! Jennifer Saake is a wonder of a woman who faces struggles you and I would run away from and hide. She lives in Nevada and “bedschools,” (her description not mine) three living miracles while fighting XMRV-Associated Neuro-immune Disease….

Last week I had the good fortune to speak to Mike Donnelly from HSLDA, the Home School Legal Defense Association on my radio show, The Sociable Homeschooler.  Mike told me that the ruling granting the Romeikes, a German homeschooling family, political asylum in America, is going to be appealed by the federal government so as…

Thank you to everyone who could make it to Jake’s duet concert with Spencer Payne last week. It was a wonderful occasion, not only musically, but because so many good people turned out on a cold night to join us. It was just like a great big family party afterwards. Jacob couldn’t believe that he knew…

Jake’s latest news:- some good, some discouraging. He has been feeling reasonably well and enjoying playing chamber music with friends and is doing a duet concert at school in a week or so. He had a spell in hospital last week with tummy trouble but is physically better now. Each visit to the hospital confirms his plight…