Hi all – had to just add to your discussion – believe it or not – I have 6 children at home all under 12 – the youngest is 4. They are ALL home educated, I do modeling and cake making and am a professional chocolatier too. They like to get involved with what I do and I have recently started to let them help out with simple cakes and cupcakes (the older 3) and they have expressed an interest in getting involved with the company as they get older. We are also a full time Free Range Egg farm and they get involved in that too. We incorporate their learning in our day to day life. Counting/maths etc gets pulled into weighing/counting eggs/ingredients etc – they enjoy doing math this way and it keeps their interest, unlike when they WERE at school and were bored senseless!! We do sit down for an hour or so each day for involved learning, and, as they are on a one-to-one basis, this is perfect and they have all learnt far more than when they went out to school. I could never go back to that way of life now and we all enjoy what happens here. So ladies, I have to say, it CAN work and do children LOL ;-) xx
