The Mala Art range from IKEA

I am still unsure of my take on IKEA’s India product line. I have seen much better products in their line outside of India so right now from what I saw in the store, I’m a bit undecided. The more warm, natural products from their home line outside of India is absolutely missing in the Mumbai Store. It is early days yet plus we are just coming out of the Pandemic year so I’d say same time next year we’d probably have a better collection to shop from. That’s when we’d be heading there for our next big shop trip. We did … Continue reading The Mala Art range from IKEA

Homeschooling – how did we begin?

Now that we’ve decided we are going to learn from home for the next year at least, we came to the question of how and where do we begin? The homeschooling quiz in a previous post slotted us as ‘unschoolers’ so going with that, we started planning for a year of unschool learning. I’ve said this before, neither am I an educator nor a teacher so my approach to home learning is purely as a parent. My learning approach is inspired by Waldorf and Reggio, both of which are play and art based philosophies that have suited our learning goals … Continue reading Homeschooling – how did we begin?

Homeschool is more home and less school…

So this new way of life where my kids are spending more of their time at home means that we are all spending a lot of time together. With nowhere else to go and not much else to look forward to, helping the kids stay in touch with basic concepts and the fundamentals of learning was an easy byproduct. It did however come with its own set of challenges. Now that I look back they seem obvious but it wasn’t so simple when we started. I’m going to list here the top 10 mistakes I made or lessons I learned … Continue reading Homeschool is more home and less school…