About us
If just one parent finds the courage and reassurance to home educate their gifted child, then Doctor Homeschool will be a success
We’re James and Marie, two doctors in the UK.
We have three high intensity kids together as well as a ridiculously energetic border collie, just to keep things interesting.
We initially started thinking about the prospect of homeschooling when it became apparent that our eldest child wasn’t like many of the other kids of his age that we’d met, with profound developmental leaps in language, maths and memory that were comparable to those of children several years older.
A relative hesitantly suggested to us that he might be ‘gifted’ or of high learning potential as it is now more fashionably called, and so we started reading more about how we could help him (and his future siblings) to learn to the best of their potential in an enjoyable and low-stress way.
As time continued on, it became clear to us that the traditional model of schooling, where a large group of children sit still in chairs in a classroom and listen to a teacher for extended periods of time, was not going to work very well with any of our kids.
They are perpetually on the go: moving around, talking incessantly and questioning everything relentlessly. Often they become completely focused on an individual game or task for long periods of time, and are explosively resistant to any attempt to divert their attention to another topic until they have decided they’re satisfied and ready to move on. This works just fine when we as parents don’t try and ‘enforce’ a specific subject or topic to learn about. Instead, by just letting them lead the conversation where they want it to go and educating as best we can ‘on the fly‘, we’ve found they rapidly learn vast quantities of interesting and genuinely useful information about their surroundings. One day of the week may end up being entirely about how a tractor gearbox works and the next day focusses around why a unicorn’s horn comes out of the forehead and not the nose like a rhino.
They just learn better that way
I promise we’re not pushy parents – quite the opposite in fact – we’re desperately holding on and trying to keep up with them as they drag us along in their wake. We have no preconceptions or particular ambitions about what our children might end up doing in life, we just want to help them to achieve whatever they want to, by providing the best support and education that we can, and from what we’ve read, the discussions we’ve had with other people who homeschool, particularly teachers who’ve decided to homeschool their own children, it seems to us this might be the best way forward.
We’ll let you know…
M&J
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