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Amanda commented on Katie8471's blog post 'am I an unschooler?'
I had the same reservations when I first started unschooling. I did not throw out any textbooks/workbooks/learning materials. My daughter has happily pursed and read any of them she wanted unforced. A few times she has come up (with the biggest gr...
August 30
Katie8471 commented on Katie8471's blog post 'am I an unschooler?'
lol ok he would do slightly more than that.probably watch tv or play video games all day. while I suppose there is something to be learned there is it enough to make a life for himself? I sure dont want to be supporting him forever! the goal(for m...
August 16
Robin commented on Katie8471's blog post 'am I an unschooler?'
Your son would do nothing? Nothing? He would sit and breath and that is it?
August 16
Katie8471 commented on Katie8471's blog post 'am I an unschooler?'
I love you too Ivanna
August 10
Katie8471 commented on Katie8471's blog post 'am I an unschooler?'
thanks sally. I would be really thrilled to just toss it all to the wind and let themdo what they want but I dont feel that in our case there would be a lot of learning going on, at least in the traditional sense like reading writing and arithmati...
August 10
Sally Terranova commented on Katie8471's blog post 'am I an unschooler?'
I don't know I consider us unschoolers and we would never throw out the books! We love em:) Unschooling to me means the freedom to learn what, when and how you want...if books or workbooks work for your kid(s) then there's nothing wrong with that.
August 10
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I don't rightly know. I think I would like to lean more in that direction but it is hard to just give up direction and also hard to unlearn all the things I have been taught. I am very much a book learner so its hard for me to think about tossing ...
August 7
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am I an unschooler?

I don't rightly know. I think I would like to lean more in that direction but it is hard to just give up direction and also hard to unlearn all the things I have been taught. I am very much a book learner so its hard for me to think about tossing out the books and letting the kids go. Play is very unstructured for us, but we do have outings often to the zoo, or museums, or the capital, or some other historic place. We work a little in workbooks with the two youngest ones. Last year the older one… Continue

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