Watch as Emma and Dan take their children, 5 and 8, to Bali for world schooling, after deregistering them from the UK school system.
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00:00In just three months we are packing up everything we have and we are leaving the country with our two boys aged eight and five.
00:07Our plan is to travel the world for a year to world school the boys.
00:11We're spending the first three months in Bali where they're already booked into an education centre.
00:16We are just your average run-of-the-mill family.
00:19We have two corporate jobs, we live in Yorkshire, in England and we are not doing this to escape the British school system.
00:26The boys actually thrive in school but we've always had a huge passion to travel and we want to take the experiences while the boys are at the right age to leave and go and see the world.
00:37It all sounds amazing but it is coming with challenges, travelling with an ADHD family, travelling with young children, you know, there's a lot of packing and planning that is going into this.
00:49Nine days ago we left the UK on a one-way ticket to Bali.
00:53Our plan is to be away from the UK for at least a year, we'll live in Bali for three to four months before heading off to possibly New Zealand or Japan next.
01:02Our boys are five and eight and we have deregistered them from the UK school system and they are currently enrolled in a three-month school programme in Bali in a pop-up school.
01:11We plan to slow travel around the world so the boys can go to various world schools, socialise with other children, learn about the culture and continue some of their education.
01:20We are funding our travel by having rented out our house in the UK for the year and we're also working online remotely.
01:27Now that we're in Bali we are finding working remotely a struggle so we're looking at lots of different ways that we can earn money on the go.
01:33If you'd asked me a month ago why we're leaving the UK I would have said that we were thriving in the UK but we just wanted more adventure.
01:41Now that we're over a month in I would tell you that we were definitely not thriving in the UK.
01:46Now I realise how stressed we were, how fragmented we were as a family, how much we were struggling on a day-to-day basis.
01:53Already this trip has changed the whole trajectory of our lives, it's changed how we function as parents, as a family and how we function in our day-to-day lives.
02:02If you want to follow our journey I promise that I will be as open and honest with you as possible all the way around the world.
02:08And I truly hope that I can start to inspire families, parents, mums to start thinking differently about what their future might look like.