Homeschooling

Unschooling

I was just wondering if there were any parents "unschooling" their kids or that were "unschooled"? 
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  • Just have to say, I had to look that up and it looks interesting. Wonder how it would work if one were to decide after a while to transition to homeschooling or traditional schooling.
     
     
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  • We do a mix of homeschooling and unschooling.  Math and language arts are formal lessons with plans and curricula that I bought.  We will add formal Bible studies next year too.  But, the rest of our subjects are unschooled.  I let

        
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  • My husband and his siblings were unschooled- very little, if any structure to their days. They had a LOT of time to explore their personal interests, but unfortunately, it also left large gaps for college. 

    My husband is very intelligent and


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    We don't unschool but I do follow penelope trunks homeschooling/unschooling blog.  I do feel that some unschooling borders on neglect but if you do it right it can

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    We do a mix of homeschooling and unschooling.  Math and language arts are formal lessons with plans and curri


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    There are so many great options for homeschooling! I get more and more excited every time I start blog browsing. :

     
     
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  • I highly reccommend a mix of structured and unschooling methods. My family did a set of structured lessons that covered all the base knowledge you would recieve in any school, and then we got to add additional classes / subjects that were things we each w
  • I was unschooled and definitely plan to do a mixture of that and more normal homeschooling. Just wondered if anyone else had experiences with it. 

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  • I was unschooled and loved it.

    I totally understand that it is so far removed from the norm that many people are not comfortable with it.

    In regards to things like math, though, I would argue that you learn what you need for day-to-day life

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