The unschooling philosophy

How unschooling works

First questions

How to unschool

Is this unschooling?

Trusting children

Listening to your heart

Learning versus teaching

What is the role of the unschooling parent?

Why I chose unschooling

What's the difference between eclectic and unschooling?

No right or wrong way to unschool

What is a day in the life of an unschooler like?

Responding to doubters

"What, no school today?" and other pesky questions.

How to respond to negative relatives

Socialization

Peer pressure

Why school seems to make sense

How do I stop wanting to see structured learning?

What about testing? I want to know how well they're doing?

I resort to workbooks sometimes when I get panicky about unschooling

My kids want to go back to the structured learning we used to do

Why schools use the methods they do

Children as Products of Education

Why You Can't Let Go

Learning to read

My 6 yo isn't reading yet

Reading isn't natural. It needs taught.

Why are there illiterates if reading is natural?

Phonics is (not) necessary for reading

What if there's a reading problem?

The thought of teens just starting to read gives me the chills

The senselessness of school math

Speaking math

Unschooling math

Math

It's important for my kids to learn to write well

Music lessons

Handwriting

Spelling

So learning about Columbus is a waste of time?

They need to learn to take tests

School things they'll miss out on

Do unschoolers use workbooks and textbooks?

Will they learn all they need to know?

Supporting versus pushing interests

What if they aren't interested in learning?

I don't know enough to answer their questions

All they want to do is play

He hates to do work

How do you motivate them to learn?

Some knowledge shouldn't be left up to chance

The high school years

Will unschoolers get into college?

The early years are the most important

They're 2 years from college and their skills aren't good enough

All my son wants to do is play video games

My son plays Nintendo all day

I can't condone ultra violent games like Grand Theft Auto

Arguments against the arguments against TV

TV and other addictions

If I let them they'd watch TV all day long

No child can benefit from watching all the TV they want

How can TV in any amount be okay?

There are much better things they could do than watch TV

TV values supplanting parents' values

Letting go of TV controls didn't work

Other comments about TV