Inspiration Sessions
Videos and talks about homeschooling — shared by parents
Swedish education philosophy applied at home
The Svensson Family · Swedish family drawing on Nordic education research.
What Finland and Sweden actually get right - and how to apply it without moving to Scandinavia. Short focused sessions, long outdoor breaks, zero homework.
06-09-2026
Teaching through place: using your city as curriculum
The Papadopoulos Family · Greek family homeschooling in Athens.
Athens as a classroom - how we use our city's history, architecture and living culture to cover history, geography, art and science without leaving home.
06-09-2026
The classical curriculum in a bilingual household
The Dubois Family · French-English bilingual classical homeschool, Lyon.
How to run a rigorous classical curriculum across two languages without doubling the work. Latin, great books and grammar in French and English.
06-09-2026
Nature immersion as primary curriculum
The Yamamoto Family · Family in Sapporo, Japan. Heavy nature immersion programme.
Three years of treating Hokkaido's landscape as our main classroom. How outdoor immersion changed our children's attention, memory and wellbeing.
06-09-2026
Mother tongue first: why it matters and how we do it
The Nkosi Family · Zulu-speaking family homeschooling in Durban, South Africa.
Why we teach Zulu and isiXhosa before English, and how this approach has produced children with stronger English literacy than their English-first peers.
06-09-2026
Democratic learning in practice
The Andersen Family · Danish family with a fully democratic approach to curriculum planning.
Our children vote on their curriculum. Here is what actually happens, what surprised us, and what the research says about child agency in learning.
06-09-2026
The Finnish education model at home
The Makinen Family · Finnish family drawing on education research from Helsinki.
Evidence from Finland's education research applied at the kitchen table. Exactly what we took, what we adapted, and what we left behind.
06-09-2026
Project-based learning from first principles
The Flores Family · Mexican project-based homeschool family.
How to design a multi-week project that covers maths, literacy, science and social studies without the children realising they are doing all four at once.
06-09-2026
Waldorf-inspired daily rhythm without the dogma
The Dlamini Family · Johannesburg family with Waldorf-inspired rhythm.
Taking the best of Waldorf - seasonal rhythms, artistic work, main lesson books, morning circle - and leaving behind what does not work for a modern family.
06-09-2026
The Rotterdam port as curriculum
The Jansen Family · Rotterdam family homeschooling with a port-city mindset.
Industrial geography, logistics, economics and engineering - all within sight of our window. How we used one of the world's largest ports as our primary STEM resource.
06-09-2026
Peace education as curriculum design
The Nakagawa Family · Family from Hiroshima with a peace education commitment.
How we made Hiroshima's history the lens through which we teach science, ethics, history and politics - and why this approach produced children with unusual moral clarity.
06-09-2026