A difficult to describe, yet easy to understand once defined, method of home education, is Natural Learning. In its purest form, it is child-led (initiated) learning. The child leads the parent/teacher in what the child would like to learn and how he/she would like to learn.

Child-led learning is fundamentally active, as the child takes responsibility for the activity and the learning - rather than having that imposed or directed by the teacher - and in the process, inherently learning that if he wants something to happen, he has to make it happen. The role of the parent becomes that of facilitator, encourager and provider of resources.