A Home Educating Dad

Each family's journey is different and ours has its own unique flavour: I am a home-educating dad, Nicola, my wife, is the ‘breadwinner’. Despite our story being different from the norm, there are some general principles that I think will help every home educating family, such as communicating well, budgeting, agreeing on roles and playing to your strengths, getting involved, taking a break and finding a community.

I wrote this part in the chapter because I wanted to share about the process that we have been through in home educating our children in the hope it would ‘normalise difference’ and inspire people to embrace their own approach.

Matt Harris is a former youth worker who, in 2018, became a stay-at-home, home-educating dad to his two daughters whilst his wife, Nicola, studied at Trinity College, Bristol. Matt’s passion is to see people live to their full potential and ‘be all they can be’. His strengths are his adaptability, empathy, positivity, love of learning and ability to help people develop. When Matt isn’t home-educating, you’ll find him trying to keep fit, cooking, listening to a podcast, or working out how to get Wilson and Robin, the family dogs, to behave.