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Articles:
The Deprived Child
Family Honour
Sharing the Joy and Pain of Being a Teenager
Confessions of a Spasmodic Homeschooling Mum
Pruning the Brain Branches
Just Dribbling Along
The Language of Learning
Reading Roads
Raising a Reader

Feature: Socialisation
Natural Socialisation by Lyn Saint
Socialisation Snobs by Patrice Lewis

Articles:
Y Games by Dr John Peacock
Oh No It Has Snowballed by Carleen Sing
Teenage Rebellion and the Lack of it by Susan Wight
How to Teach Your Platypus by Carol Barnier
Slave, Servant or Friend: Leena’s Lesson By Dr John Peacock
Opportunistic Learning by Isabel Shapcott
Faces of Naracoorte Centrespread by Sharee Cordes
In Search of the Perfect Curriculum by Diana Waring
Write Around the World by Jeane Clark
Looking at the Future in the Wimmera , a prize-winning essay by Michael Clark
Stanford Wants Our Kids
Exploring Freaky Numbers by Kevin Lees

Feature: ADD/ADHD
The Great ADD Hoax by David Keirsey
Ten Tips for Teaching Your Highly Distractible Child by Carol Barier
It’s Time for Some Xtreme Homeschooling by Diane Flynn Keith
Home Educating Teenagers is Not that Hard by Susan Wight
Educating Amelia, an interview with Alison Rowe
Allons Enfants de la Patrie by Grant Triffett
Talking Home Education, an interview with Sandra Herbert
Spring Formal Centrespread
Pets as Teachers by Isabel Shapcott
A Mathematician’s Lament Part 3 by Paul Lockhart
A National Curriculum -What does it mean to Home Educators?
A Creative Mess in a Good Cause by Lizzy Gardner

Special Feature: – Teenagers and Freedom

Let’s Abolish High School by Dr. Robert Epstein
Trashing Teens by Dr. Robert Epstein
Dr Epstein on Home Education
Studying through Open University by Sharee Cordes
A Mathematician’s Lament Part 2 by Paul Lockhart
Uses of Freedom an excerpt from John Holt’s Freedom and Beyond
Feminine, Feminism and Beyond by Isabel Shapcott
Killing Curiosity by Brian Holden
Rainbow Diva’s Camp Photospread by Sharee Cordes
Rainbow Diva’s Camp Report by Deb Ellis
Teaching Benjamin and Zachary to Read by Tammy Drennan
Is it Time for a Teacher Makeover? by Beverley Paine
The True Joy of Learning by Janette Cassey Ingham

Special Feature: Homeschooling a Child with Special Needs
Articles:
Radical Feminist Mothers and Why we Need Them
How Homeschooling Helped Us Stay Married
A Mathematician’s Lament
I Don’t Even Like Horses
Liam Sing: Brumby Trainer
Institutionalisation and Deschooling
Days of Knights
What Kind of Teacher Are You?
Full Time Work, Full Time Home Education

Special Feature:
Home Education and Divorce
- Divorce-proofing your kids
- Home Education and Family Separation
- Home Education in the Family Court
Articles:
Teaching a Foreign Language
What to do when a Home Education Journey comes to an end.
I was home educated and Just didn’t know it
Making Something Beautiful
Individuals, Households and Families
Where are they now?

Special Feature:

Home Education on a Budget

Articles:
VCE/VET at Neighbourhood Houses
Much too Early (preschool)
What’s Feminism Got to do with Me?
An Encouraging Perspective from the Potter’s Studio
The Power of Parental Expectations
Talking Home Education
Home Education’s Great…but I’m Just Not Up to it

Featured Articles:
Grandparents
The New Education Act
An Unschooling Journey From Control to Connection
Being a Cheerful Rebel
The Hidden Benefits of Sport
Making and Consuming
The Secret Lives of Children
Days of our Lives
Giving Up the Gold Stars

Featured Articles:

‘I’m a Saboteur’
Mashed Potato Education
Natural Learning in Action
Plato’s Revenge
When Everything is a Mess
Assisting Budding Writers
More Maths Board Games

Featured Articles:

Help Your Child to Wonder
Home Education: A Choice for Life
When Being Mum is not Enough
I Have Today
Home Education and Special Needs Research

Featured Articles:

Schooling: The Hidden Agenda
Learning All the Time
Research on Home Educating Special Needs Children
Socialization: The Hidden Agenda
Build a Home Lab, Part 2

Featured Articles:

Preschool Pressure
Preschool and the Normal Australian Mother
The Preschool Push
Changing Lives (when our children leave home)
Homeschooling: A Feminist Challenge
Teaching All Children to Read
Build a Home Lab, Part 1

Featured Articles:

The New Education Act
The Education Debate
Intelligence, Schools and Failure
Self-directed Education
Gifts of Home Education
Public Lectures as a Home Education Resource

Steiner Education at Home Special
Featured Articles:

Head, Heart and Hands
Play with your Child?
Waldorf Science
High School Options
Curriculum Resources for Steiner Home Education

Also:

Home Educating Teens
Maths and Science for teenagers at home

Featured Articles:

Informal Learning by Alan Thomas
Coping with Hard Times
Learning Science Naturally
Some Ideas for Journal Writing
Victorian Education Act: Changes Afoot

Featured Articles:

Commemorating John Holt’s anniversary
Learning Maths Naturally
Tertiary Options
Home Education for ADHD: More than Just Avoiding Labels
Asperger’s Syndrome

Featured Articles:

Encouraging Natural Learning
Natural Literacy
Schooling and Commercialism
Reference Resources Reap Rewards
Damage Limitation
Coping with the Education Department
Rousseau

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Featured Articles:

Beginning Home Education
Are you Qualified?
Age Segregation is Unnatural
Quality Time
My kids wont let me teach
Teaching Maths
Future Prospects for home learners

Featured Articles:

Learning Through Play
Leisure and Education
Bullying: The Daily Grind
Is It ADD?
Is School A Dream of the Past
Homeschooling in 1923
Learning Systems
Further Perspectives from the Next Generation

Teenager Special
Featured Articles:

Adults Cant You See? (Teenage Suicide and Compulsory Schooling)
Perspectives from the Next Generation (an interview with a grown home learner)
Older Kids leaving school
In School You Are Not Free – by Grace Llewellyn
Home Educating Gifted Children

Celebrating 100 Issues
Featured Articles:

Otherways History
Overseas and Australian Research
Australian Home Education: 25 years on – by John Peacock
Reflections on Life: A Different Research
People Different From Ourselves
Tolstoy