My daughter’s best friend is a local school girl. That school girl took me by surprise recently and asked why I chose not to send our children to school. I did not know how to explain. On the back of that conversation, I wrote this poem trying to consider the key reasons we unschool. It was good that I did this poem as a couple of days later my daughter asked why she wasn’t going to school like her best friend.
Y(o)ur World
Why we homeschool is such a complex answer
It started with the aim to give you a happy life
Which means limiting stress, anxiety and strife
So that you can follow any path you decide
So far you are three incredible best friends and siblings
You’re not shoved around rooms of school buildings
Day and night, you’re 3 kids that still love to read and sing
You enjoy biking around and pretending you have wings
We get to spend so many hours together in touching distance
It doesn’t make sense for me to send you to an unknown existence
At least here at home, you and I will learn to work with persistence
Free to play all year if we choose, or learn about intricate things like ‘radiant emittance’
It is important for you, my children, to know how loved you are
By your Mummy and Daddy, when in our society, so few are
Through witnessing you follow your interests, I know your happiness will stretch far
We are determined that it is not a stranger’s choice as to who you will become, it is solely yours and ours
How utterly honouring it is to witness your much longer than average childhood chapter
Sometimes I’m exhausted stumbling alongside your boundless freedom,
and then I take a breath just to soak in your laughter
Signed with love always, from your biggest believer and Mum xxx
Gentle Parent 
We love homeschooling too. It gives our family freedom.
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