Meeting the Morris family

Welcome to our preschool blog! 

We are the Morris family, the majority of whom are neuro divergent.

It is truly amazing to watch our three childen grow up and develop as we go through their homeschooling journey together. 

Here we are looking at the years of 2015- August 2019. This is when the three children were born and commenced their learning journey. 

Life is not simple as we have many long term health complications. Sophia, Xander and I have a rare bonemarrow failure condition. This keeps us very busy visiting various hospitals, with the joys of endless waiting times, numerous departments, and appointments. 

During these series of blogs you will see how we juggle homeschooling and hospital. I lived a childhood going between traditional school and hospital myself, thus it is so refreshing to be able to teach them fluidly and consistently within home education. 

I know they cannot fall behind, unlike myself, who had to retake the entire school year as a result of long periods of time in hospitals and lost schooling. 

One final obstacle Dad and I face together is the complicated dietary requirements of our little family. Consequently, life is busy and full on, but most importantly, it is crazy fun! 

I thank you for joining us in this retrospective teaching journey through Sophia and Kira's preschool education when they were 2-3years old. 

You will read more about Xander's preschool journey in later blogs, as he was newborn here. He was living in two different hospital premature units during this period, miles from where we lived. 

These are my educating methods, which form the cornerstones of our personal learning journey:

I follow the principles that we start learning from birth, and the relationship between age and learning remains fluid and flexible, dependent on personal circumstances. 

I focus on ability and interest, teaching in fun and engaging ways personal to the child. It can sometimes be a juggling act at times to meld basic learning along with personal interest, but this is where the fun is born. 

Life is learning and learning is life. There should be no distinction in my mind. Education should not be placed in a box, for a certain amount of years. It is forever.