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Teach your children from home! Welcome to the world of home education - learning without school! We officially began educating our three children in 1985, when our eldest was five years. In truth, we had helped them learn what they need to learn as they grew and explored and discovered this amazing world since the moment they were each born! I am a passionate advocate of allowing children to learn unhindered by unnecessary stress and competition, meeting developmental needs in ways that suit their individual learning styles and preferences. We are a homeschooling, unschooling and natural learning family! There are hundreds of articles on this site to help you build confidence as a home educating family. "Thank you... The information you supply is real and generous - fantastic reading. Your honesty is rare. Most books do not really explain 'how' as well as you do." Tracy Getting Started with Home Schooling: Practical Considerations by Beverley Paine
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About this site and Beverley Paine Prolific home education writer and supporter since 1989, Beverley began home educating her children in 1986, but like many families this really started with the birth of her first child in 1981. It's almost 30 years later and Beverley has become a first-time grandmother - she now finds herself pondering the homeschooling implications of this amazing event! Being a parent profoundly changed Beverley's views on education and parenting. She's moved from a 'layering on' and 'filling the pail' view of both to one that works with and honours the nature of each individual child. Her educational experience includes a four year voluntary stint working in an alternative classroom with children aged 5-13 years, during which time her confidence in home education grew exponentially! She's not just passionate about homeschooling - she's also a keen gardener, landscaper, builder and writer. Her practical and logical approach to life informs her views on education and learning. She talks and writes passionately about what she believes are the essential learning and developmental experiences for children, and how families can build a curriculum around simply living in a way that naturally and largely effortlessly develops the skills and knowledge children need. Beverley's been a home education activist for 20 years and feels like she's 'been there done that' many times over. She began promoting and supporting home education by producing South Australia's first homeschool newsletter, has organised a few conferences and seminars, run home ed TAFE workshops, as well as organised a few homeschool camps. She is a member of the Home Education Association of Australia and owns and runs Homeschool Australia and several Yahoo groups, as well writes and publishes for Always Learning Books. Her three children are all now adults, living happy lives doing what they want and are active lifelong learners. Beverley is happy to speak about homeschooling, unschooling and natural learning at conferences, seminars and workshops if she is available. Click here for a full list of Beverley's many and varied websites! A spring wedding! Roger and Courtney, Oct 2012
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Since 1989 Beverley Paine has steadfastly promoted and supported home education as an educational choice for Australia families. Her books and websites aim to demystify education, gently deschooling families so that they may meet their children's individual and unique educational and developmental needs. Her honesty, insights and wealth of experience continues to bring hope, reassurance and confidence to families. Beverley publishes her recent articles, tips and links to resources in her quarterly magazine, Homeschool Unschool Australia!
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1985 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several online groups supporting families teaching their children from home.
In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and was a committee member for three years, editing and producing the HEA Newsletter, Stepping Stones for Home Educators magazine, annual Resource Directory and other publications.
If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Homeschool Australia Facebook page.nor do they endorse or recommend products (other than their own) listed in contributed articles, pages, or advertisements.