The reason I started this blog was so Swedish people could see and read about our journey. Homeschooling is not possible in Sweden and that is why we left.
I have had a lot of emails from different Swedish people that have said that they have read my blog and that that got them to take the step to leave Sweden. Or that they were really encouraged, or that they have already decided but it was good to hear from someone who actually gone before.
I don’t know most of the people that are reading this and sending me the email so because it has been some years now since I did a text (except the 2 recency) I will explain a bit about our journey.
I have known for almost my entire life that I shall be a missionary, travel the world and preaching the gospel, start orphanages and helping people. After getting children I started to realise that I couldn’t put them in school and travel the world in the way I knew I should. I was thinking about this a lot.. Then we went on a missionary conference and we listen to a man that was a missionary in Papua Nya Guinea and he had children. I asked him after the meeting, “how did you do with your children? Did you send them away to a school?”. He looked at me and said that he and his wife home schooled them. My world stopped and I asked him what that was. He explained it to me and I just KNEW that this is what I will need to do!
I went home, overjoyed over this and we decided that that was the way forward. Unfortunately very quickly we learned that it was not possible in Sweden since 2011. I started to write to the government and write to the counsel, but it didn’t work… The newspaper came and did a interview with us and it went in to the newspaper shortly after.
However, no matter what, we were not allowed to do it. So I started this blog so that people would see who I am and what we are doing.
We landed in that we needed to move. We read the stories and what the consequences was if you home schooled in Sweden. We did not want that… The world opened up for us and we started to think about where to move. Then one day in the dark December I got a letter that said that now we needed to decide what school Daniel was going to start in the fall (we lived between two schools so we needed to decide.) I took my phone and called Leo because he was away for work. I said, crying, “We need to decide NOW where we are moving!”. There and then we said that we will move to England. 2 months later, we left Sweden. Only the closest ones knew it because we didn’t want to make it public until we left.
So this blog is about our journey. It will be about homeschooling, but also just how we live our day to day life. As I said in the beginning, this blog is mainly to open up the eyes on the Swedish people.
It is possible to do school differently then what it is done in Sweden now.
It is time to step up, it is time to change!
Pictures below from when we drove over
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