What this mum has learned about parenting during a trip around Australia

For years Emily Robinson was living a typical, busy life as a working mum.

She was juggling a lecturing career, a small business, a baby and a husband before all of it came to a grinding halt when she received a diagnosis that would turn her whole life on its head.

The mother-of-one contracted a very rare type of cancer in her womb that was so aggressive, doctors needed to start attacking it the very next day.

A surgery and six months of chemotherapy later and Robinson was cancer free but ready for a life change.

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So she and her husband packed up their life with their then three-year-old-son and travelled from Sussex in England with a population of almost 900,000 to the tiny Queensland town of Capella with a population of 900.?

She's told 9honey it was "seriously remote, we didn't have a supermarket, it was a 40-minute drive to the shops¡­ it was just like a clean slate because I'd left my whole life behind and could just start again".

And that's exactly what they did, living the next nine years in the tiny town, where they were able to have two more children, escape the daily grind and live the simple life they'd always dreamed of.

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She says they got "a six and a half acre block" that allowed the kids to have "total freedom" and "run wild" with camping trips, motorbike riding, mustering, camping and an outdoor lifestyle.

Robinson also used the tree change to become the kids' home-school teacher, while also launching her own small business as a parenting coach.

But after almost a decade of living the country life, Robinson says she could tell her kids were ready to see more and she was "wanting change" too.

"I said if we are selling this house, I'm not moving into another house, I want to travel".

So they started planning a trip around Australia.

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Robinson says the decision felt like a no-brainer because her "business was already online and the kids were already home-schooled".

She and her family have now been on the road for 18 months, having travelled over 25,000 kilometres chasing the sun from Queensland, to Victoria, South Australia, the N.T and now W.A.

"One of the beautiful things is that we have followed the weather, so we really have not had that many miserable days - if it got too cold we decided to go north."

And while their life's on the road for now, the experiences they've had as a family, will last a lifetime.

"Every place and area you go is different, going to Uluru was such an incredible experience, but it's completely different to snorkelling on the Ningaloo Reef on the West Coast."

"If you asked the kids and said, 'what is your favourite thing?' It will be swimming with whale sharks, swimming with sea lions and seeing the crocs in the estuaries up in Darwin."

Robinson admits while it took time to adjust to the new way of life on the road, she could easily see the kids were getting a much richer education on the road.

"There are so many opportunities for education for the kids, we've pretty much done a museum in every town we've gone to and just travelling and seeing the culture and the different ways people live has been a real highlight."

Plus she says the connection they're gaining as a family is also invaluable because, "there's the opportunity to be present and to soak up moments like the sunset."

But she admits it hasn't always been easy and says they've definitely had their fair share of "hairy moments".

"We blew two tires on the truck just outside of Exmouth, which is remote WA and that was huge."

"There was another moment where I took the car and managed to get myself bogged in sand in the middle of nowhere, with no phone service, had the two girls with me and it's flipping hot, so I had to walk, flag down somebody, get them to come and help me literally push the car out of the sand."

However Robinson, who also works remotely as a parenting coach, says these are the moments that teach her kids lessons they'll never learn in the classroom.

"They have learnt so much from the natural modelling of dealing with crises and working through things that go wrong."

"You have a reaction, but then afterwards, we get to talk to them about it and we teach them that this is normal, because as a parenting coach, I want everyone to know that it's okay to have bad days, it's actually okay to lose it, because that is a teaching."

But after more than 18 months on the road, they're now looking to move somewhere so their eldest son can start high-school.?

The mum-of-three says even though they'll be giving up their nomadic lifestyle, she hopes they'll be bringing the lessons they've learned along the way with them.

"We've created a lifestyle where there is so much time for connection and presence and enjoying those moments that when I think you're busy and working and stressed and overwhelmed you don't actually get to see."

"It's so easy as a mum to get so consumed with doing everything and we try so hard to meet expectations and really be the best version of ourselves but sometimes that is a double-edged sword because your cup is empty and it's not allowing us to be the best version of ourselves."

A lesson she'll be taking with her into their next chapter.