Hi Michelle, I cut your comment down because it would destroy my SEO, but I read it. You seem very focused on your children’s academic success. Would you be able to let them no longer follow a set curriculum, grade levels, not “learn” in any conventional structured way? Will you be able to “deschool” yourself fast? It can be hard to trust in natural learning when you’re used to the school way. I’m not thinking about vaccine requirements at all, just open borders. There are very few currently. Asia is pretty much locked up tight. Travelling in most of Europe wouldn’t be smart until the vaccines roll out. Central and South America seem to be easiest. Along with eastern Europe, the Balkans, Maldives, some of The Caribbean. I have friends who’ve been stuck in Vietnam all year. Unable to move on. Being stuck like that isn’t the experience they wanted. I’m presuming you’re American. Australia (where I am) is shut. We can’t get in or out. Are you thinking of dropping everything and going right now? Most people spend a year or so getting everything organised. Because things will change big time in coming months – we all hope. I wouldn’t encourage anyone to go now when a much safer and more enjoyable experience is just around the corner. I’d start by pulling your kids out of school and see how life looks with them with you 24/7 at home. I’ll be travelling just as soon as I can, and I hope that will be by the middle of this year. There’s not much money in writing about worldschooling, I’m holding most of the Google number one spots and the search volume is tiny compared to the terms that really put food on the table for us. Also with the current situation, travel interest is way, way down, but since November it’s bouncing back. Confidence is returning. My business, income, and life are all travel. I would travel right now if I could, yes. But I can’t, not least because we don’t have that travel funded by our travel business. The industry is on its knees. I can’t really help you make your choice, only tell you what I know, through worldschooling and travelling for the last 7 years, because every family is different, different kids, different dynamics, different ideas of what travel style is for them, different wants, different needs. Feel free to e-mail me if you’d like to chat more.

…As for Covid vaccines, I will be sometime in 2021, but they haven’t even started the trials for children vaccines yet. That said, there are countries you do not need a vaccine to enter. I’m just not sure about health coverage right now….

Do you mean world school, throughout childhood? Or for a short time, a gap year? Will exams be involved? Will you be chasing exam passes and studying your curriculum required for those passes? ( My boys are doing this currently, they’re doing iGCSE courses, you can just turn up and sit the exam, maybe a year or two to memorise the curriculum content) What does worldschooling look like to you? You start at birth with raising and nurturing your kids. School starts between 4 and 7 depending on where you’re from, but really, outside school, knowledge and learning are seamless. They flow, it’s just a natural progression. They won’t learn much that would be considered academic until they are tweens and teens but they will have had a really nice childhood, staying close to their main comfort, love, and support providers, with no timetables, pressure, stress etc. Also interesting, diverse environments to explore are obviously beneficial. Right now, Covid has messed everything up. But I’ve had relatives vaccinated already, it won’t be long before we can all get back to worldschooling. Fingers crossed!

That’s too young for academic benefit, obviously. But it depends what you want them to get out of it. Homeschooling can be a birth to adulthood thing, but if you’re thinking in terms of sitting exams, that comes later. What they learn when they’re small has no bearing on exam success later. ( I have the proof of that here with my two) Unless you keep them illiterate and in a box, obviously, and I don’t think many parents do that.

@Nicole Maciura, I am seriously doubting whether or not it’s the right decision for us, simply because I am the sole parent and not sure how I would be able to work with my kids at home. I could essentially work from anywhere as long as I have a good internet connection. That said, I’m a bit spoiled with my iMac and can’t stand laptops anymore, lol.

What age is good to start world schooling? I have four kids: boys are 4 & 6, and girls are 2.