Whether you call it Home Education, Homeschooling, Unschooling, deschooling, Worldschooling, Natural Learning, school at home, Distance Education… or whatever you would like to call it is what you do, we are a Community of learners.
Ultimately, we’re all aiming for the same thing… helping children to learn outside the standardised school system.
I call it ‘getting on with life and learning as though schools doesn’t exist! After living and learning outside of the system, you can forget about it and get on with learning about the world, from the world.
It’s a lifestyle, and what I also call ‘the best teaching gig I’ll ever have’.
My name is Tamara. Formally, I am Tamara Kidd B.Teach (Primary)/B.A. (History), Grad Cert Ed. I am an Education Consultant based near Newcastle, NSW, Australia specialising in helping families find bespoke solutions for their bespoke concerns, difficulties, challenges or when they find themselves in fenced off and need help to find the gates. Which is an interesting way of putting what many experience as a ‘gatekeeping’ feeling when trying to help their own child. How can you access help? There IS a lot of help available; a whole community of help. Let me introduce you to them and show you the path in. I’ve been doing this through my business since 2007 for people who choose to use a school and since 2009 for everyone else. And there are A LOT of people who choose to not use a school.
I home educated my children from June 2006 to January 2023. For 16.5 years we enjoyed a wonderful life of learning together, using a mixture of Montessori and Unschooling. Both children completed TAFE qualifications. My eldest graduated with a Diploma, my youngest a high score for TEP and offered a university placement. He is now in 1st year at UON (the University of Newcastle) while their older sibling has been working since they were 17 and lives away from home.
I have the joy of knowing both of my now adult-children were well-prepared for their independent lives. I’ve not just tested the legitimacy of this education choice as a parent, I have as a teacher as well. I’ve watched thousands of other families home educate in their own unique way and know that I’m well qualified to say that learning about the world in the world is second to none. It has been the best teaching gig I’ll ever have, and I have no regrets that we chose this pathway.
I also know, through my experience volunteering to support others, and working as an Educational Consultant, how to make it work.
Over the years I’ve also met and helped thousands of Home Educators, presented at conferences, summits, run workshops, assisted with writing countless plans and helped people with record keeping. I’ve started meetup groups, run home education events and camps, and in general have done ‘what I can, when I can’ as is the nature of what we do. That now includes YOU! Today, I continue to be a part of the Home Education Community and hope to be for many years to come.
The 2024 Summit has started, but it’s not over yet! Join in the conversations over on Facebook where presenters will answer ALL of your questions.
Did you miss the 2023 Summit? Have no fear, with Fearless Homeschool, you can now have an ALL ACCESS MEMBERSHIP to all 214 workshops!
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The Australian Homeschooling Summits
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Feel free to join me on my Substack. It’s where I will collate and update what I have already contributed, and then keep people updated with what I’m doing now.
I’ve been working on a massive writing project for the past 12 months and people are starting to ask how my books are going. To date, I have also published 51 Mentor Videos for Nurture Parenting Magazine and presented at about seven or so Summits, including Raising Happy Kids, and the yearly Australian Homeschooling Summit.
Monthly updates on books, articles and a Podcast of home educators having a ChitChat… yes, updates ARE coming!
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Part 1 – The authors walk you through HOW to create a learning plan that that works for YOUR family, ticks all the registration boxes, and creates a solid foundation on which to grow your home educating experience! Designed to help build your confidence as an educating parent.
Part 2 – Learn how to help the kids get the most out of homeschooling with these tried and proven home educational strategies. Create your own lesson plans and unit studies to suit your individual children’ learning needs and watch them thrive as their motivation for learning grows! Packed with ideas and examples.
Part 3 – Learn how to record and use authentic and continuous assessment of your children’s learning to help plan and implement activities that meet their immediate learning needs. Real examples.
Ask me anything via email/in Nurture Parenting Magazine Facebook Group. Fortnightly LIVE mentor sessions. These are my Consultations.*
*Private consultations have paused for 2024 while I write books.
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