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How Wonder & Scribble Started (Spoiler: It Was Not a Business Plan)

March last year I went on an ASIST suicide intervention course. I watched people who did not work in suicide prevention become confident and capable suicide intervention first aiders in just a couple of days. Ordinary people learning how to stay with someone in crisis without freezing or trying to fix everything. It was powerful to watch. I had one of those quiet internal moments where something clicks and you think, this really matters. I spoke to the trainers about becoming a trainer myself. They encouraged me to apply. I applied. I was accepted. Then I checked the cost and laughed in part-time-working, home-educating parent. The trainer course was around £4,000 plus hotel costs. We are doing okay as a family, but not surprise-four-thousand-pounds okay. So the dream was carefully parked. Not abandoned. Just placed on a high shelf with a label that said later. The Side Hustle Brainstorm That Went Slightly Off the Rails I decided I would start a small side income stream to fund it. I c...
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Unschooling and Deschooling: What They Really Look Like in Real Life

When families step into home education, two words often come up very quickly: deschooling and unschooling . They can feel freeing when you first hear them. They can also feel confusing, or even a bit loaded, especially when you realise those same words don’t always land well with your Local Authority. I remember feeling unsure how much to say, how to explain what we were doing, and whether the language itself was going to cause more stress than the learning ever did. So here’s what those terms have meant for us, in real life. What Deschooling Looks Like Deschooling isn’t a method or a timetable. It’s a pause. For us, it looked like slower mornings, less pressure, and a lot of decompression after years of rigid routines and expectations. There was a period where very little looked like “learning” on the surface. To be honest, it sometimes looked like doing nothing. But what was really happening was rest. Confidence was being rebuilt. Curiosity was starting to reappear. The con...
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