The Educating Parent (merging Beverley Paine's Homeschool Australia and Unschool Australia)

The Educating Parent Directory

Australian Home Education Blogs

last checked and updated May 18th, 2015

Use this list of blogs as a starting place to explore the huge variety of approaches and styles employed by Australian home educating families - no two families approach education in the same way! If you wish your blog to be included please email or message Beverley. Active Facebook pages that you use as a home educating blog welcome too.

Why only Australian blogs? Although there is a lot to be learned and shared about home education across the world, I have found families new to home educating are keen to hear about families educating their children in Australia. Older and inactive blogs are placed lower on the list but may still provide some insight and reassurance as well as useful tips and suggestions to help build your confidence as a home educating parent.

The Educating Parent (this site) contains hundreds of articles and blog posts by Beverley and now incorporates Homeschool Australia Blog, Beverley's old blog about all things home education.
Stories of an Unschooling Family:
http://www.storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com
Free Range in Suburbia, unschooling:
http://www.freerangeinsuburbia.com/
Homeschooling with a natural learning approach
http://happinessishereblog.com/
Living and learning in freedom, unschooling
https://freeflowingfamily.wordpress.com/
Unschooling, homeschooling, montessori
http://www.racheous.com/
Tamara Kidd, practical home education advice and musing from life long learner: Tutor Your Own Child
Michelle from Homeschool Downunder blog.
Spiral Garden's Lauren's blog at http://www.owlet.com.au/, unschooling and permaculture
Jasmine of the Valley unschooling natural learning family
Jo's unschooling blog: http://unlearntatlast.blogspot.com.au/
Leisa's Free Flowing Family unschooling blog
Alyson’s blog about homeschooling and travelling
http://worldtravelfamily.com/
Cathy’s homeschooling blog http://toomanyflowers.wordpress.com/
Chareen’s homeschooling blog http://everybedofroses.blogspot.com.au/ Wholehearted Child / Charlotte Mason approach
Discipleship Homeschooling, Belinda’s blog http://livelifewithyourkids.wordpress.com
Kylie’s blog http://www.ourworldwideclassroom.blogspot.com.au/ homeschooling and Montessori
Rachel's Racheous Loveable Learning, unschooling
Homeschooling on a boat Homeschool Ahoy by Lyndy
Deborah’s show, tell and share homeschooling blog http://adepts.blogspot.com.au/
Super Kate is a blog about giftedness, dyslexia and homeschooling
Lori's Life Blog is exactly that - a blog about her life with lots of ideas for craft, some posts about homeschooling, etc
Sandra's Free Life Learners unschooling blog
The Freedom Farm's Funschooling bog
Tanya- https://www.facebook.com/ZannickOurHomeEdJourney
Gae's blog: http://cherishedheartsathome.blogspot.com.au/
Sally's blog: Rainbow Love Farm http://rainbowlovefarm.blogspot.com.au/
Ingrid's homeschooling blog, gifted and ADHD http://ingidefyinggravity.blogspot.com.au/
AussieHomeschool encourages all homeschooling parents: http://aussiehomeschool.com/ , a community based resource
Living Learning - homeschooling families living and learning in the Blue Mountains, a networking community blog
Wheel Education, a family of nine travelling around Australia in a converted bus
Suburban Mamma posts about unschooling, gentle parenting, autism
Johanna's blog about our life/learning....www.downonthefreedomfarm.com
Charlotte Mason, Ambleside Curriculum homeschooling family: http://ohpeacefulday.blogspot.com/
Kendra posts weekly on what her homeschooling family has been doing: http://aussiepumpkinpatch.blogspot.com/
Hippy Happy Mama is Andrea's family blog about conscious parenting, unschooling, family travel and self-love.
Heather's homeschooling, unschooling and everything in between blog: http://sunnyhomeschool.blogspot.com/
Kathryn's blog isn't active now because her son has grown up but it has some great posts in the archives: http://kathryn-timeforachat.blogspot.com/
Bruggie Tales - homeschooling adventures since 2003 http://bruggietales.blogspot.com/
Lauren's Sparkling Adventures as she travels Australia with her daughters, last post 2010, unschooling
Sarzy's We Live We Learn blog
Homeschooling mum of two teenage boys using an eclectic and unschooling approach http://homeschoolhippies.blogspot.com/
Homeschooling Kez's blog... and Billy's week: http://kezs-blog.blogspot.com/
Leonie's blog, of Christian Unschooling https://livingwithoutschool.wordpress.com/
Sunny Homeschool is Heather's blog
Exploramum and Explorason are a travelling and exploring Australian duo, trekking around the world, living and learning!
Large Christian family offering a Liberal Education: http://wonder.riverwillow.com.au/
18 years of homeschooling and now Ruby is a grandma! http://mummasplace.blogspot.com/
Homeschool graduate Jess has crafty blog: http://picklesticks.blogspot.com/ and her new blog a making life
Out There Family traded security for the unpredictable, the extraordinary and the unconvention.
Catholic homeschooling family's journey of living and learning : http://sevenlittleaustralians.blogspot.com/
Home ed adventures with Elijah and Jasmine: http://chrysalisisland.blogspot.com/
Christian homeschooling mum who cherishes home and family life: http://www.eightacresofeden.com/
http://www.freerangeinsuburbia.com/ by Shay is an unschooling blog
Kym - http://www.facebook.com/educationideas
Travel at the Speed of Life, one family travelling Australia in a caravan
Jo - www.kraftyguts.blogspot.com , mostly art and craft activities.
Stacey's record of her family's homeschooling journey- http://amomentinourworld.blogspot.com.au/
Radical Ramblings, one family's hectic adventures in radical unschooling (past posts hidden, new posts should be arriving soon!)
Home educating mum of six youngsters, Belinda shares her experiences: http://belindamoore.com/, blog seems inactive now, but I know Bel isn't!
Rachel, homeschooling mother of two, owner of LuSa Organics , writer and crafty gal's unschooling blog
Unschooling Downunder, unschooling family with 4 children in Queensland
Travelling and roadschooling... Wide Open Wanderings
Going Anyway, 5 children, a wheelchair and a serious case of wanderlust! Last post April 2014
Becca's Musings on a busy Christian homeschool life: http://beccamusing.blogspot.com/, last post Sep 2014
Renelle's relaxed always learning family blog: http://dovesrest.blogspot.com/, last post Aug 2014
Jo's excellent unschooling blog: http://unboundedocean.wordpress.com, last post Dec 2014
Recording a journey of faith and education: http://dowhateverhetellsyoujohn25.blogspot.com/, last post 2014
Tracey's blog: http://www.traceymansted.blogspot.com.au/, 2014
Kate - https://www.facebook.com/getintohomeschooling, Dec 2014
Ela's unschooling blog: www.majikfaerie.blogspot.com/ last post Jun 2014
Busy work-at-home homeschooling family: http://houseofbogwitz.blogspot.com/, last post 2014
Naomi's blog: http://this-homeschool-life.blogspot.com and http://pleasant-paths.blogspot.com.au/, inactive since 2013
Joyful homeschooling mum, Rosemary's blog: http://joyfullmum.blogspot.com/, last post Sept 2013
Mum, Dad and four kids home educating and blogging while travelling around Australia: http://www.livinontheroad.com.au, last post Jan 2013
Wild growing learning free! http://unfurlings.wordpress.com, last post Jan 2013
Homeschooling using the Tapestry of Grace curriculum: http://touringwithtapestry.blogspot.com/, last post April 2013
Catherine's Indirect Observations experiments in life and learning http://www.indirectobservations.com/ last entry Sept 2013
Unlearnt at Last - a blog celebrating unschooling, last post 2013
Mother and writer with an interest in books (last post Oct 2013): http://throughthewardrobe-musings-melissa.blogspot.com/
Samantha's blog: http://nowhatifsorifonlys.blogspot.com.au/, last post Sept 2012
Unschooling, parenting, social justice, community and more: http://mosaicspiral.blogspot.com/, last post April 2012
Homeschooled for 5 years, now starting at a small school: http://skyeandfour.blogspot.com/, last post Nov 2012
Janelle's blog about getting into university: http://encouragelearning.com.au/?page_id=56, last post July 2012
An Australian family on a journey of lifelong learning: http://aussiehomeeducation.blogspot.com/ last post Mar 2012
Janelle, mother, teacher, home school facilitator and student, passionate about family, education and travel. Lots of excellent tips and ideas for learning! last post Oct 2012 http://explorelearngrow.wordpress.com/about/
Freeschooling is a way of life for this NSW family - last post Feb 2011
Waldorf home educating family: http://foxglovespires.blogspot.com/, last post Feb 2011
Blissfully free unschooling blog: http://blissfullyfree.blogspot.com/, last post Oct 2010
Melanie's collection of educational videos for kids: http://homeeducatorshelper.blogspot.com/ last entry 2009
Fly in Freedom by Qld homeschooler Emma: http://flyinfreedom.blogspot.com/ last post Aug 2009
Wildcrafted - another great unschooling blog from WA, last post 2009
Melanie shares her favourite learning resources: http://gorgeouspea.wordpress.com/ , last post June 2008

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Beverley Paine with her children, and their home educated children, relaxing at home.

Together with the support of my family, my aim is to help parents educate their children in stress-free, nurturing environments. In addition to building and maintaing this website, I continue to create and manage local and national home educating networks, help to organise conferences and camps, as well as write for, edit and produce newsletters, resource directories and magazines. I am an active supporter of national, state, regional and local home education groups.