Why is it that even though we are quite happy to go against the norm just by homeschooling we still feel pressure to conform to the "school standards" or maybe it's just me lol. As I've often said I do firmly believe in better late than early so now I'm asking myself why I keep expecting my children to undertake work that isn't done until a child has been in school a few years?

I've decided it's time to go back to basics, and start right at the beginning and not worry about the fact that these are things that public schooled children learnt a few years earlier.  For example I didn't realise until the last couple of weeks that my eldest dd doesn't actually recognise numbers 6-9 even though her 5 year old brother does. She's always cheated and looked back on a "numbe line" so to speak to work out which number it is, she can't tell me randomly. Any ideas for helping her to recognise them will be gladly received - I'm sure some of it is pure laziness but I'm trying to figure out the best way for her to know them because to be honest I never really taught her bro any so it's just been picked up naturally as we'ver gone on.