What IS Unschooling?

 What IS Unschooling?

Unschooling isn’t always an easy thing to define. Families are unique and they apply some aspects of unschooling but not others… it’s really ok, because everyone should do what’s best for their families.

But I want to share what I’ve seen work in unschooling homes and how unschooling is interpreted. It always helps for everyone to be on the same page to start with, and then they can adjust whatever they need to adjust.

Here are two key points:

1) Unschooling is simply living a full rich life, offering opportunities to your child to learn and grow. 

2) Children are natural learners. They want information. But they do not necessarily know what’s out there in the world.

So for unschooling to work at its best, the parent must be engaged with the child, probably more than if they chose another learning modality. And connecting with them is the priority.

That’s the parent’s role in unschooling. The unschooling parent keeps one ear to the child listening for their interests and questions, and the other to the community, and now with the internet, the world, searching for creative opportunities that feed that desire to learn more about a topic.  Read more...

Need a little more help?  Sue offers coaching (1:1 & group), courses, guides here.

Reach out if you need help figuring out how unschooling can work for your family!
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