The Struggle To Juggle

I wrote my chapter to encourage mums who are in the position of working and home educating. There are many home-educating mothers out there who are stay-at-home mums and homemakers, living off their husband's salary. I believe that such women are quite largely represented in the home education community which is awesome.

I am a huge advocate for this traditional way of running a household with children. Nonetheless, there are also women like myself who work. If also home educating then as a working parent it would be part-time, working from home or like myself on their own terms as a business owner.

All of this is in keeping with the Proverbs 31 woman who '…considers a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.' However to balance working and home educating, there are certain helpful principles to be applied that I've learnt through experience. My heart is to share those principles to help a mother out there like myself.

Afia Bayayi is a British Ghanaian mother of three, based in London, England. Her children have always been home educated. She left an eight-year teaching profession to home educate them and launched her business in events to facilitate this dream and passion. In running her company, Afia is able to work around her home and children whilst using it as a basis to teach them about entrepreneurship, business principles and work ethic.

Afia draws on various curriculum approaches to serve her children's education. Faith, Culture and Music are key features of her home education values and priorities. Afia also supports her husband in his role as a pastor. They have been married since 2005. As a family they are fondly known as Team Bayayi and with this they use their YouTube and Instagram platforms to support other Home Educating families.