Even as a child, Anna was extraordinary. Her family and myself thought of her as a faery child, and even wondered if she was a changeling.
I looked after her and her two sisters and brother for a few years when they were young, until they were teenagers. One day a week for a year or so, and then the odd evening and weekend. They are truly an extraordinary family and were very welcoming and kind to me at a difficult time in my life.
Anna was seven when I was first involved with the family. Already she knew who she was and what she wanted. And it wasn't mainstream education! The local school didn't have a lot to offer her because her level of consciousness and awareness was already way more sophisticated than it had to offer.
So for a year she was home educated. That's why I came to help - one day a week - with Anna and her brother Adam who was two at the time. I don't remember her ever doing any formal schoolwork during that year. But she seemed to learn what she needed just by readi