We were seen by the hospice social work team on Tuesday overall it was positive and I was also told I have a right to work and to Home educate, can I bottle that statement.
Im at a loss what to do over work as work is pushed by all we see, its good for parents to be working but is it safe for this sleep reduced parent to care for other peoples kids ( im a childminder).
Im considering a re train but in what I loves eastern medicine and would love to do acupucture but thats going to be long and expensive,
Where from here?
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I don't know if i'd recommend what i did.
The situation as i saw it was this: both parents needed to be around for the children to be educated, which meant we both needed to work from home. I was interested in alternative medicine but needed to do something which was affordable, in whose efficacy i could place faith, and which didn't clash with my values. That would be herbalism, because it was cheapest and would allow me to practice from home. The idea was that i would then be able to train in other therapies, which turned out not to be feasible because i never made enough money to do that.
Consequently, i now think the answer is self-sufficiency and helping other people with those skills from home, something which can also bring in an income and form part of the children's education. I've done that to a limited extent.
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I wouldn't recommend going into herbalism as it now stands because right now the EU and government are cr*pping on us from a great height and the NIMH is pathologically incompetent in defending the interests of herbalism. However, it occurs to me that you may have an interest in traditional crafts, whereof to me herbalism is one, and therefore i wonder if there's something in there. Pre-industrial cottage industries did exist, and i think the artificial division between work and home is part of the problem. Have you considered the likes of maybe natural dyeing, soap-making and so forth, or maybe producing ink, writing materials and the like? Or weaving? I just think there might be something in that which would be enough, both on the side of production and maybe selling what you make at craft fairs, re-enactment events and farmers' markets.
Just a thought, i don't know.
And i'm also aware that i'm trying to "fix" this in a typically male way.
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