GirlGI | Girl Gone International Issue 9 | Page 87

Mom of three Mary says, ‘We homeschool our boys . .
. We feel that our role is to show them the all the opportunities the world has for them . . .[W]orldschooling is actually the best way to explain our approach.’
Bender adds, ‘We don’t sit down and talk about dinosaurs, we go to= museums to see them. We didn’t just
watch the Sound of Music, we did a tour in Salzburg,
Austria.’
As in their travels, nomadic families educate their
children flexibly, at times sending them to a brick-andmortars school or homeschooling when it suits. Just
as with physical locations, change and travel can be
its own source of inspiration for the next generation
of serial travellers.