Seedling Magazine Issue #3 - Feb | March 2019

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Alternative Education and Long-Term Travel with Kids by Emma Walmsley

When my first­born child was a baby, I started learning

with our kids, but my partner Anthony needed a little more

about alternative education pathways. It was amazing to me

convincing. He eventually agreed to try home education

that home education was such a popular and wonderful way

rather than kindergarten for our son Dante, on the condition

to learn, and I fell in love with the idea of worldschooling

that Dante was learning and that we were all happy. If not,

as soon as I read about it. How incredible that we could not

we figured school would always be there to fall back on.

only take responsibility for educating our kids, but we could do it all over the world!

Well, we have never even considered sending him to school once, and he is turning nine this year! Home education suits

I was very open to these ideas and happy to give them a go

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Dante perfectly, and he is thriving outside of the school


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