We have two boys, aged 7 and 10 years, and as you can imagine, home-schooling on the boat during Covid social distancing is more often than not quite challenging.
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we’d planned to return to the UK for the Winter term.we moved onto a boat over the Summer of 2020.So why did we actively decide to home-school our kids?
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Where have the kids gone…?Ĭheap laundry puns aside, home-schooling is not the easiest of life choices.
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But today is one of those days when it’s not working, and maybe I need to throw in the (dirty) towel and make a clean start again tomorrow.
#A SIMPLE LIFE AFLOAT FULL#
But 15 minutes into the hot wash, my patience is already running one sock short of a full load: the tablet the boys were learning French on crashed and then both kids announced they needed the toilet, 10 minutes apart… It’s disappointing as usually our launderette learning days are the most productive – benefiting from super-fast WiFi and a morning looking at a different set of four walls that at least have head-room to stand up. Today, as it happens, I find myself attempting to home-school in the launderette – our 10 days of washing taking around 2 hours to wash, dry and fold. We live on a 9mx4m catamaran which encompasses three cubby holes with beds in (I wouldn’t go as far as to call them bedrooms), a tiny kitchen (galley) and cloakroom (heads), cockpit, fore-deck, swim deck, and a 1.5mx1.5m u-shaped seating area ‘saloon’ which serves equally as sofa, dining table, bar, workshop, cinema, office and school, according to our daily and nightly needs.