Homesteading, homeschooling family with children with disabilities looking for extra hands in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland

Infos

• 

  Description

  We are a nature oriented, forest home schooling family looking for some extra help with our children.
  
  We live rural on the country side of the west of Ireland. We have a large vegetable garden, often go on walks in the woods and a beautiful Irish beach on just 20 minutes from our house.
  
  We homeschool with a Waldorf/unschooling approach. We have four children. Our oldest is a beautiful girl of 8 with Down Syndrome, then very clever identical twin boys of nearly 7 who have mild autism and a 4 year old boy with severe autism and a big love for playing outside.

• 

  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Jardinage

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Aide à la maison
• 

  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We live in north/west county Clare not far away from the ocean. Winter is off-season but Ennistymon, a town 25 minutes from us, is still a beautiful lively village. We trying to create a semi self-sufficient life and creating a warm and safe home and learning environment for our four children with disabilities and love to share this with people who are interested in unschooling/waldorf schooling/forest schooling/homeschooling and family homesteading with a large vegetable garden and how this benefits people and specifically children with disabilities.
  We (the parents) are Dutch. we speak English with our children who were all born here and have been living in Ireland for 10 years. But we do still keep a few Dutch traditions and words in our house :)

• 

  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

• 

  Aide

  We are looking for somebody who enjoys playing (outside) with children, doesn’t mind helping with dishes and small household chores and can mostly help us with an extra set of eyes and hands for a few days per week for about a total of 25 hours. Your character should ideally be relax, outgoing, calm, confident with a love for children, nature and sustainable living. It doesn’t matter if you have experience with special needs or not, as long as you are willing to learn and don’t mind doing things different than “normal”.

• 

  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant

• 

  Hébergement

  In our home you will have a bedroom with one king size bed and en-suite bathroom. As we have four young children there cannot be loud music at night and every now and again our children do wake up during the night which you might hear. As we usually go to bed early to have enough energy for the days, we don’t spend a lot of evenings in the living room but you are more than welcome to make yourself comfortable there. All the cooking of the meals is done by us, but of course you can always make yourself coffee/tea and a snack in the kitchen.

• 

  Informations complémentaires

  • 

    Accès Internet

  • 

    Accès Internet limité

  • 

    Nous avons des animaux

  • 

    Nous sommes fumeurs

  • 

    Familles bienvenues

• 

  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Un

• 

  Nombre d'heures attendues

  6 hours per day 4 days per week