A child development expert decided to 'wild school' her children - home schooling them using nature while travelling and living out of a van. Birdie Wood, 28, used to work as an early childhood education teacher and saw how formal schooling could leave children "burnt out".
So, when it came to her daughters - Fifer, four, and Mavie, two - she chose to home school them, but in a unique way. Single mum Birdie opted to 'unschool' her little ones - a method of home schooling with no set curriculum where she lets them study "whatever they want".
The family live out of a van and travel around looking for natural spaces to settle where the little ones can learn and do whatever they like. The mum-of-two says people criticise her choice and claim she is 'setting her children up for failure' - but she says they just don't understand it.
