Having been a single mother most of my adult life, I quickly learned the responsibility of having to look only to myself to provide for my family, their well being and their education.

I had never really been employed by anyone and went into the property business at age 20, where things were really booming and business was great. For 10 years that is, till things changed somewhat! I changed business direction and went into law and legal admin where a working day entailed nothing less than 14 - 18 hours (a day).

Given that one needed to look after one's family, long working hours were necessary and given the fact that I have insomnia it really just assisted in producing the goods! A failed marriage or two later I was blessed with my "S" and "River" and "HRH ADMD" who are and always have been my sole responsibility, and one which I take extremely seriously. I elected to start homeschooling a number a years ago after the situation in South Africa became so volatile and unsafe for children (and educators) in public schools, with classes of up to 50 children, that it made no sense to pay the ridiculous school fees that we are forced to pay in this country.

In 1996 the SA Constitution made homeschooling legal and although it is still frowned upon and disliked INTENSELY by the authorities there is little they can do about it. Out of homeschooling our website was born, a need to create and share resources with the thousands of other families who could no longer afford to send their children to school, one because of the lack of safety and security, two, the lack of quality edication and three, and very importantly, the ridiculously exhorbitant prices we had to pay to try and keep our chldren safe in an environment where learning became impossible.

St Aiden's Homeschool was born.
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