I have seen the most brilliant unschooled kids, and I have seen children highly neglected whose parents claim to “unschool” it’s actually a problem

Unschooling doesn't mean you don't educate your children. So many people think that. I got bullied out of an "unschool group" because I shared about ways I intentionally taught my kids things that they asked to learn. This is why I dont use the term unschool anymore. It used to mean an education philosophy unlike public school. Now its apparently a fancy word for not being an active parent or guide in your child's education to too many people. So I've given up on these labels and just tell people that my children are educated at home, it looks nothing like public school and their educations speak for themselves.

Yes! I love this distinction. So often when I hear people argue against unschooling, what they’re actually debating are issues of parenting. Parenting and schooling are different categories, even though with homeschooling they can be very closely connected. Loving your videos on this ❤

My son is autistic and I’ve been homeschooling him for two years now but the pressure of me putting him in school has definitely risen this year

If unschooling means letting a child learn what they want I totally agree I actually do go to school but I have to stay up all night bc I’m currently teaching myself 2 languages, math, writing, guitar, grammar, literature, social studies, and much more and I don’t mean studying TvT As you can tell grammar class ain’t going well

Seems like everyone has a different definition of unschooling... to some it’s just learn through life, to others it’s letting the kids pick the subjects but still having dedicated time on actively teaching them. It’s hard when the definitions vary so much.

I read a comment on another channel from an 18 year old who was unscheduled. She said it put her at a huge disadvantage to her peers who went to a regular school. She said she found she was completely ignorant about many subjects that her peers had learned at school. Home schooling is fine but you still have to actually teach the kids. You can't just rely on the kids learning through life. The advantage of home schooling is that you can teach each child in a way that they can understand but you still have to teach them proper lessons.

Unschooling is better than public school home schooling.

I watched a video on the research they have done into public school, structured homeschool and unstructured homeschool. The unstructured homeschool children were at an educational disadvantage, the public school were next up and the ones who were excelling by a large margin were structured homeschoolers. The researchers were pro-public school so they weren't even biased toward homeschool. The statistics were hugely in favour of structured homeschool

I’m homeschool my kids right now, but feel like I need to unschool them? So my bigger fear is they won’t learn math or spelling. I have a 10 year old and 15 year old with dyslexia so how would it work to teach them spelling? How do I tech grade 4 math and high school math through play?

What makes sense to me is that for centuries children learned at home by just being included in family life and it was natural and it worked. As close as one can resemble that natural process within their means, the better. BUT ALSO, family life looks very different today. Unless you own your own business or run a homestead, you can't involve your child in your work/trade. Gaps must be filled. Homeschooling in any form is better than public school, but if all they're learning is how to rely on the rest of the world to meet their needs without contributing anything, that's a problem.

Yeah I've been stressing about schooling my kids and am I teaching them enough. I "get them" to do some maths and English but more often than not I'll just let them do their own thing, I've taught my girls to Crochet so they'll often be doing that or they'll be drawing, my son loves the piano and the Rubik's cube so he plays with that.... I quizzed him this morning asking who invented it and when, where they were from ECT and was pleasantly surprised at his knowledge base, so it seems I've been semi unschooling them anyway!! 😂❤ thank you for the clarification and ideas for how to encourage the self learning, I now have lots of ideas of how to teach them, so thank you.❤

Do you have any examples of making a loop schedule while unschooling?

Yes 💯 you still need to parent your child!😊

I see that in the home school groups a lot. Some ppl just throw out parenting. 🤦‍♀️ I have 2 rules. Learn something new 3 days a wk and spend about 3hrs on it. That's all I ask. She can decide what she wants to learn, just learn something, then she can play video games or whatever. I'm really lucky, my daughter is really responsible and self-motivated. My son was a fight every day. I wish I had known about unschooling when he was a kid. We were doing online school, and it wasn't any different than traditional school, which he hated. Unschooling could have saved us both a lot of grief.

Totally unrelated but your eye colors matches your earrings. So pretty!

There is unschooling, and then there is not schooling. 😂 My kiddo does actually require some of the structure of more formal lessons, but can get done what he needs to in under 30 minutes per day. He's autistic and was having horrible meltdowns at school, he has a bruise from months ago when he was there that still has not gone away. He was getting stress induced tummy upsets and migraines, he's come home and hide in his room in the dark the entire time until morning. So now I'm taking him back out our stuff is going to be really loose. Forest play once a week, library visit once a week, and my middle kiddo still goes to school so we'll be around people then too, other than that we'll be free to do do things within his own time and ability. I hate when people think of homeschooling as just letting the kid do nothing. :(

There’s so much wrong information circulating about unschooling, from in and outside the homeschooling community. Unschooling isn’t about NOT teaching your kids; it’s about teaching them to how to love learning.

How do they learn complex math? Go to college? Get good jobs? How does any of this come to be? Job applications ask your education. What do you put on those?

It should be called “Life University” 🫶🏼 by the way I am a bedridden mom and my son learned to read by himself. I teach him “life university” all day from bed and I make sure at the end of the day he tells me 3 things he learned and 3 that he is grateful. He is my little genius ( that’s what I tell him), he is an editor, learning animation by himself (8 years old) and I refuse to feel weird about our lifestyle. He is compassionate due to my health issues and how my husband treats me❤ this channel is the reassurance I needed to keep going this way. Thank you so much for this channel 😊 it is 💎🙏🏼

Love this 🥰, such a great way of explaining it!

That is excellent!

You can actually unschool and be child-led in your parenting, but once you enter electronics and you, yourself spend all day on a screen, you’re all screwed.

Wait so do they do any academic lessons?

Is there a part 2?

Why are video games not valid learning?

I just subscribed I want to learn more about this

You rock!

I wish I would have been unschooled as a child. I did miss a lot of school and ditched. I used this time to walk around town and watch cartoons. It would have been easier if my parents would have been on board. My dad was such an unreasonable guy. He told me I could not drop out and needed to get a diploma. What was he thinking.

Love this explanation!