One of the more popular homeschool teaching methods in the past few years is unschooling.
What is unschooling? Well, it depends on the eye of the beholder and the implementer.
This is, in my opinion, the most flexible and least planned style of homeschooling. It is child-centered, child-led and extremely flexible.
Children follow their passions and they have no schedule for doing things.
Some love the fact that there is no rhyme or reason, while others frown on this method.
This is because they feel that having no schedule, no plan and no way of assessing learning is not the best way to raise children.
But for some, it actually works! If your children are ok with a lack of structure and you are ok to let your children wake up whenever they want and do or not do educational activities, then maybe this method is for you.
There are unschooling families everywhere, so I don’t think it will be hard for you to find them and pick their brains.
We personally haven’t employed it full-time, except for when I started homeschooling and I needed to de-school my brain.
I was just too hung up on what school was “supposed to” look like.
Unschooling helped me more than I can say, but it was only for a short time.
Here are some resources you might find helpful:
What is Unschooling?: Living and Learning without SchoolHome Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling,The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole WorldBig Book of Unschooling
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