The Cost of Freedom 02 - Education: What It Actually Takes to Teach your Kids while Sailing Around the World for 8 Years

We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darry & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids • ~40,000 miles • ~40 countries & territories• BOOK RELEASE MAY 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Parent's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids"--🎬 AS FEATURED IN:▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder" - Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/0YJSjKO4js8 - Trailer: https://youtu.be/7OfAmECKj7E▷The Telegraph: We quit rat race for eight-year sailing adventureRead Through: https://youtu.be/5NnprymsWC0Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activity-and-adventure/eight-year-sailing-adventure/▷The Telegraph: We spent 8-year sailing around the world. This was the scariest part- Read Through: https://youtu.be/w7tgipworFE- Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trips-of-a-lifetime/red-sea-around-the-world-sailing/▷BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ep8w192yno▷BBC South East Today: https://youtu.be/BuJe4VtLLmQ▷GB News: https://youtu.be/KN5yhpD1csA▷Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-raising-kids-sea-during-covid19-1530315▷Yachting Monthly Award Winner: https://youtu.be/Y1icRewwML8▷Lonely Planet: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/families-living-on-the-sea▷Full press: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about--MORE MOTHERSHIP CONTENT:📺 Share this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipadrift🔧 Learn how we fix our boat: https://www.youtube.com/c/Mothershipmaintenance📧 Free book chapter: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook🎙️ Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@MothershipAdriftPodcast💙 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift🌐 Website: https://www.mothershipadrift.com📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mothershipadrift👥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mothershipadrift--Everyone has an opinion about educating children at sea. Most of them are wrong.This episode tackles the most common objection from the 600+ comments on our Telegraph article: that pulling your kids out of school for eight years is educational neglect dressed up as adventure.I talk about how we tried to replicate a classroom on a moving boat, how badly that went, what we did instead, and where our three kids, Rowan, Darroch and Yewan, ended up. One turned down a university scholarship. One became an amateur entomologist. One is thirteen and still finding her feet on land.The Cost of Freedom addresses the real questions people ask when you tell them you spent eight years sailing around the world with your kids. One objection at a time.📖 Everything covered here is in the book in more detail. Captain's Table members on Patreon get early access to chapters: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift⁠🎬 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Bn1PUpGKR-g---💙 SUPPORT OUR CHANNELS:A big THANK-YOU to our MOTHERSHIP PATREON family who make these videos possible. What is a Patreon? A Patreon is a regular person like you, who helps content creators like us, to make entertaining and useful stuff like this! If you'd like to help towards the filming, editing and data costs of our Mothership Adrift channels, please: ▷ Click the SUPER THANKS button below the video ▷ Follow the Paypal link: https://paypal.me/Mothershipadrift ▷ Follow the Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift---KEYWORDS: family sailing vlog, sailing around the world, homeschooling at sea, worldschooling, sailing with kids, family cruising sailboat, long passage sailing, offshore sailing, liveaboard sailing life--- #worldschooling #boatschooling #sailingfamily #homeschooling #familysailing #alternativeeducation