Wendy Charles-Warner
@wendycharleswarner.bsky.social
Chair of Education Otherwise the home education charity. Retired legal professional, long term home educator, home education researcher and specialist in the field.
'Empowering children to achieve their unique potential creates a better future for us all'
'Empowering children to achieve their unique potential creates a better future for us all'
Children's Wellbeing etc Bill.
Increasing numbers of Peers are raising concerns about the Bill but this Government has deaf ears. It is a wise leader who adapts to be accepted and a fool who will not bend.
Home Educators are not he only ones affected, you could be too.
#EducationOtherwise
Increasing numbers of Peers are raising concerns about the Bill but this Government has deaf ears. It is a wise leader who adapts to be accepted and a fool who will not bend.
Home Educators are not he only ones affected, you could be too.
#EducationOtherwise
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Children's Wellbeing etc Bill.
Increasing numbers of Peers are raising concerns about the Bill but this Government has deaf ears. It is a wise leader who adapts to be accepted and a fool who will not bend.
Home Educators are not he only ones affected, you could be too.
#EducationOtherwise
Increasing numbers of Peers are raising concerns about the Bill but this Government has deaf ears. It is a wise leader who adapts to be accepted and a fool who will not bend.
Home Educators are not he only ones affected, you could be too.
#EducationOtherwise
Freedom: the ability to be who you are and live as you please.
Caring freedom, the ability to be who you are and live as you please but wanting to be a valuable member of society.
Home education grows future heroes
#EducationOtherwise
Caring freedom, the ability to be who you are and live as you please but wanting to be a valuable member of society.
Home education grows future heroes
#EducationOtherwise
June 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Freedom: the ability to be who you are and live as you please.
Caring freedom, the ability to be who you are and live as you please but wanting to be a valuable member of society.
Home education grows future heroes
#EducationOtherwise
Caring freedom, the ability to be who you are and live as you please but wanting to be a valuable member of society.
Home education grows future heroes
#EducationOtherwise
Today's treat was watching two little girls taking part in hobby horse gymkhanas. They have never been to school and are the youngest of a large family of home educated children, every one of whom is different.
Home education, inspiring individuals to follow their dreams.
#EducationOtherwise
Home education, inspiring individuals to follow their dreams.
#EducationOtherwise
June 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Today's treat was watching two little girls taking part in hobby horse gymkhanas. They have never been to school and are the youngest of a large family of home educated children, every one of whom is different.
Home education, inspiring individuals to follow their dreams.
#EducationOtherwise
Home education, inspiring individuals to follow their dreams.
#EducationOtherwise
If your children are mid exams, remember to tell them that there is no such thing as failure, there is their best and pride in what they can achieve. We cannot all get A* in everything, mor crucially, the World needs talented 'D's as well. All children have value. #EducationOtherwise
May 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
If your children are mid exams, remember to tell them that there is no such thing as failure, there is their best and pride in what they can achieve. We cannot all get A* in everything, mor crucially, the World needs talented 'D's as well. All children have value. #EducationOtherwise
Mid GCSE, paper twos up to 18th June. Home educating parents learn so much from their children, including GCE exam questions! Inspiring the next generation to love learning for its own sake.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
May 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Mid GCSE, paper twos up to 18th June. Home educating parents learn so much from their children, including GCE exam questions! Inspiring the next generation to love learning for its own sake.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
May 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Pick up the nearest object and your child's whole education can come from that. A rock, Lego brick or tattered teddy, each one can inspire learning. How was it made, from what, where did the parts come from, what is it like there....rabbit holes galore! Home education works.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
May 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Pick up the nearest object and your child's whole education can come from that. A rock, Lego brick or tattered teddy, each one can inspire learning. How was it made, from what, where did the parts come from, what is it like there....rabbit holes galore! Home education works.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
Every child deserves unconditional support; never take away their firsts, no matter how long ago we experienced them ourselves as each one is part of wonder.
Home education putting children at the centre, the future is heirs.
#EducationOtherwise
Home education putting children at the centre, the future is heirs.
#EducationOtherwise
May 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Every child deserves unconditional support; never take away their firsts, no matter how long ago we experienced them ourselves as each one is part of wonder.
Home education putting children at the centre, the future is heirs.
#EducationOtherwise
Home education putting children at the centre, the future is heirs.
#EducationOtherwise
Almost half way through GCSE exams and I have lost track of how many groan producing chemistry jokes I have heard, every single one a joy from a child who could not grasp it only months ago. Patience, love and reassurance.
Home education, finding children's super powers
#EducationOtherwise
Home education, finding children's super powers
#EducationOtherwise
May 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Almost half way through GCSE exams and I have lost track of how many groan producing chemistry jokes I have heard, every single one a joy from a child who could not grasp it only months ago. Patience, love and reassurance.
Home education, finding children's super powers
#EducationOtherwise
Home education, finding children's super powers
#EducationOtherwise
I was home educating a grandchild when I first learnt any meaningful geology, sparked by a course he wanted to take. That 'child' became a geology fellow and my collection of rock samples runs to several hundreds.
Home educate and be inspired by your child.
#EducationOtherwise
Home educate and be inspired by your child.
#EducationOtherwise
May 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I was home educating a grandchild when I first learnt any meaningful geology, sparked by a course he wanted to take. That 'child' became a geology fellow and my collection of rock samples runs to several hundreds.
Home educate and be inspired by your child.
#EducationOtherwise
Home educate and be inspired by your child.
#EducationOtherwise
Tectonics: Stand across a divergent plate; inspire your child. Or, use layer cake! Slice across layers, demonstrate converging, diverging and transform. Baking (maths, literacy and chemistry) and geology plus treats. #EducationOtherwise
Home education, makes learning fun and tasty!
Home education, makes learning fun and tasty!
May 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Tectonics: Stand across a divergent plate; inspire your child. Or, use layer cake! Slice across layers, demonstrate converging, diverging and transform. Baking (maths, literacy and chemistry) and geology plus treats. #EducationOtherwise
Home education, makes learning fun and tasty!
Home education, makes learning fun and tasty!
There are so may images which say 'wonderful home education to me and this is one of them, kindly donated for 'Education Otherwise: Fifty Years of Home Education'. I love the supportive and restful calm of these happy children.
copies from educationotherwise.org
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copies from educationotherwise.org
#EducationOtherwise
May 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
There are so may images which say 'wonderful home education to me and this is one of them, kindly donated for 'Education Otherwise: Fifty Years of Home Education'. I love the supportive and restful calm of these happy children.
copies from educationotherwise.org
#EducationOtherwise
copies from educationotherwise.org
#EducationOtherwise
Home education; learning with your child. Grandson's subjects of choice are very different to mine but I find myself increasingly able to answer questions about complex scientific points which he has learnt but I never did. That is how home education can work. #EducationOtherwise
May 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Home education; learning with your child. Grandson's subjects of choice are very different to mine but I find myself increasingly able to answer questions about complex scientific points which he has learnt but I never did. That is how home education can work. #EducationOtherwise
Next week sees the start of GCSE exams. Already, young people are anxious and stressed. Making young people sit a large number of exams all at once is not reflective of University or real life. Is it any wonder that our young people are the least happy in Europe?
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
May 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Next week sees the start of GCSE exams. Already, young people are anxious and stressed. Making young people sit a large number of exams all at once is not reflective of University or real life. Is it any wonder that our young people are the least happy in Europe?
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
Criticising a dyspraxic child's writing and insisting that they can do better is cruel. Watching a very bright 16 year old trying to write, but unable to control a pen's movement, brings home just how crucial home education is to our SEN children. Caring for the individual.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
April 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Criticising a dyspraxic child's writing and insisting that they can do better is cruel. Watching a very bright 16 year old trying to write, but unable to control a pen's movement, brings home just how crucial home education is to our SEN children. Caring for the individual.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
Tomorrow, 1st May, the House of Lords debates the Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Several senior barristers (David Wolfe KC advised) have advised organisations that it is able to be challenged in judicial review if it goes ahead as it is.
Tell Peers how it affects you.
#EducationOtherwise
Tell Peers how it affects you.
#EducationOtherwise
April 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tomorrow, 1st May, the House of Lords debates the Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Several senior barristers (David Wolfe KC advised) have advised organisations that it is able to be challenged in judicial review if it goes ahead as it is.
Tell Peers how it affects you.
#EducationOtherwise
Tell Peers how it affects you.
#EducationOtherwise
Imagine... no bullying, no peer pressure, no having to fit learning into half hour or hourly slots, no loud bells, no 'isolation', no putting your hand up to go to the toilet, no scratchy uniform and no restriction on what you learn.
Home educated children don't have to imagine.
#EducationOtherwise
Home educated children don't have to imagine.
#EducationOtherwise
April 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Imagine... no bullying, no peer pressure, no having to fit learning into half hour or hourly slots, no loud bells, no 'isolation', no putting your hand up to go to the toilet, no scratchy uniform and no restriction on what you learn.
Home educated children don't have to imagine.
#EducationOtherwise
Home educated children don't have to imagine.
#EducationOtherwise
Small children are innately honest and wise about their own needs. Home educators listen to their children and those children gain maturity, self motivation and independence as a result.
The right path for a child is their path, not one set by others.
#EducationOtherwise
The right path for a child is their path, not one set by others.
#EducationOtherwise
April 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Small children are innately honest and wise about their own needs. Home educators listen to their children and those children gain maturity, self motivation and independence as a result.
The right path for a child is their path, not one set by others.
#EducationOtherwise
The right path for a child is their path, not one set by others.
#EducationOtherwise
A wonderful 16 year old, at a prestigious ballet school, taking a degree and enormously talented, told me how her old school staff told her that she would never make anything of herself if she 'failed' maths. Home education mended her spirit. Nobody had the right to break it.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
April 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
A wonderful 16 year old, at a prestigious ballet school, taking a degree and enormously talented, told me how her old school staff told her that she would never make anything of herself if she 'failed' maths. Home education mended her spirit. Nobody had the right to break it.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
After over 40 years' of home educating children and grandchildren, I am starting again with A levels in 'boy's' subjects which I was not allowed to learn at school. How very far we have come in understanding that every child is an individual with individual education needs.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
April 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
After over 40 years' of home educating children and grandchildren, I am starting again with A levels in 'boy's' subjects which I was not allowed to learn at school. How very far we have come in understanding that every child is an individual with individual education needs.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
Does your child want to make a volcano, build a bridge or create things from their imagination why not download our Little Book of Learning free of charge:
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April 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Does your child want to make a volcano, build a bridge or create things from their imagination why not download our Little Book of Learning free of charge:
#EducationOtherwise
www.educationotherwise.org/resources/
#EducationOtherwise
www.educationotherwise.org/resources/
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Debate, Lords, 1st May. If you know a peer who cares about family rights, the right to privacy and parents' right to choose the best education for their child, contact hem and ask them to vote for amendments which make it palatable. #EducationOtherwise
April 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Debate, Lords, 1st May. If you know a peer who cares about family rights, the right to privacy and parents' right to choose the best education for their child, contact hem and ask them to vote for amendments which make it palatable. #EducationOtherwise
Granddad at Zoo today with grandchild. Unknown boy aged 7-8 asked him a question. When he got home, he told me about it and commented "I think he must have been home educated as he gave a good account of himself and was articulate".
Raising children to be their best self. #EducationOtherwise
Raising children to be their best self. #EducationOtherwise
April 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Granddad at Zoo today with grandchild. Unknown boy aged 7-8 asked him a question. When he got home, he told me about it and commented "I think he must have been home educated as he gave a good account of himself and was articulate".
Raising children to be their best self. #EducationOtherwise
Raising children to be their best self. #EducationOtherwise
Home educated children become doctors, gardeners, ballet dancers, scientists, pilots, lawyers, geologists, florists, actors and every type of role possible.
What they do not often become is unemployable, or unable to be of their best.
It works. #EducationOtherwise
What they do not often become is unemployable, or unable to be of their best.
It works. #EducationOtherwise
April 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Home educated children become doctors, gardeners, ballet dancers, scientists, pilots, lawyers, geologists, florists, actors and every type of role possible.
What they do not often become is unemployable, or unable to be of their best.
It works. #EducationOtherwise
What they do not often become is unemployable, or unable to be of their best.
It works. #EducationOtherwise
Learning: take Easter eggs (please take them!); home educated children have learnt why they are symbols, what of and whether that is positive; how they are made, how many are made and transported, whether they are good value for money and much else. Happy engaged and fulfilled.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise
April 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Learning: take Easter eggs (please take them!); home educated children have learnt why they are symbols, what of and whether that is positive; how they are made, how many are made and transported, whether they are good value for money and much else. Happy engaged and fulfilled.
#EducationOtherwise
#EducationOtherwise