The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

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A married couple from Cambridge decided to travel around the world with their two children instead of putting them at school desks. Paul and Caroline King met while traveling. For the last 19 months of their life together, they drove their sons — six—year-old Winston and four-year-old Henry - to 15 countries.

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The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

The British claim that their sons are more developed than their peers. After going through about twenty school options for Winston, advanced parents made a vital decision. Having sold the house for 280 thousand pounds and everything in it, the family decided to teach their children outside of school on their own and is not going to change the situation yet.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

Paul King told The Sunday Mirror: "We will never force boys to go to school or take exams. We don't raise our voices at children, so why should a teacher be allowed to do that?"

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

Winston and Henry in Bali.

Paul and Caroline met while traveling in Kashmir in 2003, and settled in Gothenburg, Sweden, Caroline's hometown.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

Henry holds a squid on the beach in the Maldives.

The idea of not sending children to school came to Caroline when Winston complained of boredom in kindergarten: he learned to read at the age of one. Starting from Romania, they then visited Dubai, India, Maldives, Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Thailand, Laos, USA, Colombia, Spain, Egypt, Italy and the Czech Republic.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

Kings in Ubud, India.

Paul King has a business called Hammock Heaven: he is engaged in the production of hammocks, but works remotely to be able to lead the lifestyle that the family has chosen.

"Sometimes it seems that they don't perceive anything. They were completely unimpressed by the pyramids, and when we saw the Roman amphitheater, they said it was boring," the boys' father complains.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

On the Solfatara volcano in Italy.

"But then they will discuss what they saw, and we will know that it made an impression. One morning they woke up and asked to go back to Egypt. Why read about history and culture in a book when you can experience it firsthand?" says Paul.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

Henry is in a hammock in one of the parks in Prague.

Parents make projects with their children based on their trips. The family spent the summer in Prague and then plans to go to Iceland and Australia.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

The King family during a river trip in Kerala, India.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

On the beach on Koh Samui, Thailand.

The British family decided not to send their children to school, but to travel around the world with them

According to his father, the boys already know much more about computers and programming than he does.

Keywords: Great Britain | Circumnavigation | Family | School

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