Unschooling

Unschooling is absolutely a good thing. Each family has to do what is comfortable, but we have been unschooling for 8 years now. Our oldest son who is 20 has a secure job, and our oldest daughter just turned 18 and will have her Associates Degree next May by using the Running Start system with our local community college. (Free college tuition for Freshman/Sophomore college courses to be completed during a student's Junior/Senior high school age. Google it.) She will be ready to enter a 4-year University, if she chooses to, as a Junior next fall. We have 3 younger kids - 12, 10, and 4 - who are coming up in the ranks. They all learned (and are still learning) the 3 R's - Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic without any curriculum or home "school" time. I could go on and on, but a few examples of ways we learn are the same as any human learns. We live. We go places. We watch great programs on TV. We visit the library. Existing creates the environment our kids need to learn.

Scary at times? When we first started, yes. Now we've seen that it is successful, and our children *do* learn what they need to know in life through their own will and desire. And what a way to grow up! Can you imagine never being harped on about getting school work done? And never seeing a bad grade? I can't imagine doing it any other way.