The HEFA Podcast - The Heart Of Home Education

In this week's episode, we enjoy our first question time with my new co-hosts, Craig and Cheryl! We discuss how to gauge a child's learning and progress, explore setting boundaries in the first few months of home education, the experience of being an admin on a home education group, how to avoid imposing beliefs on children, starting the home education journey and more! 00:00 Introduction and New Format 02:33 How to gauge how much your child is learning and progressing 16:28 Setting boundaries in the first few months of home education 30:57 The Parent's Perspective 32:43 The Experience of Being an Admin on a Home Education Group 37:03 Avoiding Imposing Beliefs on Children 48:57 Starting the Home Education Journey 54:52 The Philosophy of Home Education If you are looking for a transcript of the podcast, these can now be found in the HEFA group guides under this week's podcast.

This week I am joined by the lovely Craig, a part time working, home ed parent in England! Craig shares their wonderful wisdom and insights of their family choosing home ed as their first choice!

This week I am joined by the wonderful George, a parent, carer and home educator in the south of England. George is a step father of a home educated child and offers super insight into this element of home ed parenting!

This week I'm chatting to Graeme! Graeme is a home ed single dad from the West Midlands with some wonderful thoughtful experiences to share!

This week I am joined by the lovely Adam from Manchester who joins me to chat about home ed and how that works for his family. Adam chats more about what led to him changing employment and shares his top tips for other home ed dads out there!

For this season we are focusing on home-ed dads! Join me as I chat with Luke, a home-ed dad who shares his excellent perspective and thoughts on what it is like to go from a reluctant home-edder to a strong advocate of home ed, who won't be sending his youngest child to school!

New to home education? Have a listen to our September panic episode with ours top tips, do's and don'ts!

Join me for a bonus episode as I ramble about the summer holidays and how that can look as home educators.

Join me this week as I chat about friendships in Home Ed.

This week, I am joined by Natalia, a home edder living in Scotland to talk about how we can approach education when we dont feel our child is able to engage in learning. We chat all about the difficulties involved in home edding when there is neurodivergence, PDA, trauma and more.

This week I'm talking about how to deal with friends and family and their opinions, worries and fear about your decision to home educate.

In this week's episode, I'm joined by my long-suffering husband as we chat about reluctance around home ed from both our perspectives- mine as the main educator and him as the outside of the house, worker. Enjoy!

Welcome to series 3 of the HEFA podcast and this series, I need your help. What would you like this series to focus on? Please do leave either a comment or voice note to assist me in where you would like us to focus this time! Send a voice message to my podcast, HEFA- The Heart Of Home Education: https://anchor.fm/hefa/message

We are super excited to have the excellent Dr Naomi Fisher on the podcast for our end-of-season finale! Naomi joined me for a ramble all about home education. A few key points in this week's podcast - Naomi chats about her home ed journey, SEN and mental health, deschooling and recovery, the current school system and exams, and of course chats all about her new book 'A different way to learn - Neurodiversity and self-directed education' (being released on 21st June) Grab a cuppa, its a corker! Dr Naomi Fisher is an independent clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant. She specialises in trauma, autism and alternative approaches to education. She works with children, adolescents and adults. She is the author of ‘Changing our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of their Own Learning’ (Robinson, 2021) and ‘A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education’ to be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in 2023. You can find Naomi here - https://www.naomifisher.co.uk/

This week, I'm joined by Lana to chat about home edding when we have disabilities and chronic health conditions. Listen out for our special surprise guest, Lochie, Lana's snoring Frenchie!

This week, I'm on a ramble all about that ever contentious issue...screentime! What do we mean by screentime? Should there be rules around it or not? Join me as I share my thoughts around this area of home ed and how I've unpicked my own thoughts around technology.

This week I'm joined by Claire, one of our admins and a home-ed mum to 3 younglings, to chat about what home-ed can look like in the early years! Spoiler, it involves a lot of play! 

This week we are tackling the queen of questions regarding home ed- Socialisation! Are home-ed children isolated and given fewer opportunities to socialise? Join me as I chat with two lovely parents, Katy and Diane about exactly that! 

This week on the podcast I have 4 wonderful guests who share their experiences of finding their groove as home educators! We have Jessica a structured home educator, Kate and Lana, Semi-structured home edders and Heidi, an unschooler. Join me as we chat about what their style of home ed means to them and how that looks in practice! 

Welcome to another week of Home Ed 101! This week I'm joined by the wonderful Katie who is quite the fountain of knowledge when it comes to GCSEs and all things exams as a home educator. Join Katie and I for a relaxed chat about her experience of GCSEs with her four children.  For more on exams head to the exams Wiki https://he-exams.fandom.com/wiki/HE_Exams_Wiki Katie in her wisdom also wrote an amazing Guide to taking GCSEs - sort of a step-by-step version of the Wiki above. You can check that out on the link below and its FREE! But do please consider donating to Katie's hosting costs if you are able. - https://learnwhatyoulive.com/product/the-home-educators-gcse-survival-guide/