60 minutes story on Sunday- unschooling

[Ginger]

We unschool outside of school hours. My kids' natural interests are pursued.

[beansbeans!]

We unschool outside of school hours. My kids' natural interests are pursued.

That we do, but I consider to be under the parenting hat anyway, the possibility of unschooling only really develops during school holidays.

[Jellyfish]

Just to explain quickly; you can't unschool out of school hours. It doesn't work like that; it is an all in thing. You also can't use a curriculum for math and english but unschool other subjects. Unschooling doesn't involve school or subjects, it is the active rejection of those. There is a different word for those (perfectly valid) choices, it isn't unschooling though; in home education it is called eclectic, whilst utilizing school it would be called being an active and involved parent.

Ginger and I have discussed homeschooling in the past on the forums. She was fairly vocal about how she believed I was making the wrong choice for my children, it does seem odd to me that she would now be making a thread in regards to a form of it but maybe she has changed her perspective, maybe not. My main motivation for posting was to share information about unschooling for anyone interested that wouldn't be tarred by the 60minutes brush -- I've watched the preview and read the blurb and seen the social media response to it so my post was developed with those things in mind.

ETA: I forgot to state specifically; yes we are an unschooling family.