I have become interested in recent years in the concept of learning, what is learning, how is knowledge transmitted, what environments...

Fifteen years in practice, and never once did I come across a home educating family. This could have been chance, possibly the nature of...

Often when I say I am a qualified Speech Therapist people tend to think I worked helping children "learn to talk". Whilst that's largely...

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It’s interesting to me when I hear of a Mother being told, the reason her child is not resilient enough is because they bed share at...

“It’s an angry piece” I told a friend, as I closed my laptop and returned a message to say that I wasn’t going to publish it. Words of...

PERMISSION TO FEEL There was no answer outside myself that would get me approval from an adult anymore, a grade in school, or correct...

Progress, what is it? What does it look like? How do we know we’ve reached it? Are we somewhat obsessed by it, or is the motivation for...

There’s a tree outside my window, it's an old cherry tree, sparse branches this time of year, stripped back to its foundations. It...