Also, audiobooks! I love putting an audiobook in for my kids to listen to. They love it, too!

This is so helpful; thank you. I am the same way; I like to get straight to the point/math concept and my children learn better that way. TGATB has gorgeous artwork for sure and maybe someone who has a child who needs the busy work to internalize a concept would benefit from it. A lot of co-ops I know use TGATB. At home we do the very simple and affordable clean-cut Spectrum curriculum for some subjects. I’ll have to check out Math-U-See.

Do you have any videos or social media platform that shows “a day in the life” of your day? I’m sure every day is different, but I’m so visual. I’d love to see what a day looks like of unschooling for you. Thanks

I've been balking at unschooling for years because I just didn't understand it but having a seemingly unfocused 17 year old, it's thwarted me on a desperate search for a different way because he is a different learner. All that to say that this podcast was so eye-opening for me!!! Thank you so much for making unschooling plain!

Are you still unschooling?

So helpful, thank you! Great to have you back! I benefited so much from your old videos! I appreciated your thoroughness in researching everything you did with your kids and you really gave me confidence as a homeschooler especially in recommending math u see and the five in a row and also your deep dive into unschooling. Thank you!

I will have an 11th grade and 8th grade.

My little boy is 9 and starting 4th/5th grade because I incorporate things from both grades into his curriculum. I find as he's getting older, I feel like I'm not giving him enough work to do, he gets grumpy and is constantly trying to "barter" with me on how much work, how many more pages... etc, and it becomes a struggle, then he shuts down and I can tell that he's no longer listening or learning anything and I end up stopping because I'm tired of the arguing. He has never gone to public school, and he knows what is expected of him, yet, he's pushing the boundaries, that I feel overwhelmed. Any advice?

So happy to see your back!! We are homeschooling preschool, 1st grade and 4th grade this year.

My oldest is starting high school now too, feels like we have a good plan for her.

You're back!!!

Thank you for this video! Super encouraged by it! I have four kiddos that are 9, 7, 5 and 3 and my three year old just dropped his afternoon nap this summer and I’ve been so nervous about not having that afternoon quiet time with my older kids, now that he’ll be awake, once school starts soon! You’ve made me feel encouraged to try it out and do what works!

The origins? Hippies.

Not true. Kids don’t learn good lessons or anything of value or substance by just being any lessons and lesson plans in the clear and concise objective for learning you don’t learn American history by just being you don’t learn American civics by just Bing you don’t come to an understanding of the constitution by just being.

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.

I LOVED your video! So…so detail! All these things were wonderful to find out!

It is basically education vs the government and church brainwashing. Sad that there are only two options.

To be honest, I think a lot of the people who are participating in unschooling don't seem to understand the learning part. I am a tutor and I'm also a special needs tutor ESE. I cannot tell you how many children I have come across that were byproducts of unschooling that were allowed to develop massive gaps in their knowledge. I think in concept it's great!! However, I think it's more appropriate actually for your Juniors and seniors who are getting ready to go into the workplace who have already learned what they needed to have academic skill wise but do need experience and exposure to the world to know what they like and do not. I am not a huge fan of traditional public Schools by any stretch however the unschooling movement has become dangerous as it is not at all being facilitated in the correct manner. I cannot tell you how many parents I ran into who have told me things like "My child learning how to read would be traumatic for them." It's kind of a dumpster fire education at the moment but hopefully we can pull through and reach each other with empathy and kindness. Also, There is a group of students who have exceptional needs who may not be the best fit for end schooling and yet we see parents attempting it and then parents kind of get in over their heads. I think the concept is great. I personally prefer traditional homeschool. I will absolutely tell you that traditional homeschool does a fantastic job!!!!!!

This is actually right ✅️.

Wow, you are one hell of a nut job. I feel very sorry for your kids and the interactions they will have with others in the future.

Just found you today and while i find most of what you said to be great, you did make me cringe a bit with the "when are we going to use this in real life" point. It's not you, btw - it's whenever i hear this point. I'm a science and healthcare person and i wanna cry in biology major all the time when i see people do very basic stuff incorrectly. One example, every year a story hits the news about someone clearing out a Walmart or McDonald's because they mixed ammonia or some other chemical with bleach. My mom and my MIL used to do this as well but couldn't figure out why they were coughing and had to run out of the kitchen. It's very easy to make a deadly gas when you mix things with bleach. Yet i hear all the time, when am i going to use chemistry? It's under your kitchen cabinets, it's in your medicines, it's everywhere all the time. Another example is i constantly see people recommend mixing vinegar and baking soda to use as a cleaner. But if you know basic chemistry you know that you've just neutralized those chemicals and from a disinfectant standpoint. But your point is taken - one of the biggest downfalls of education, imo, is that teachers generally fail to teach kids application so that they care to learn the subject.

Yes 💯 you still need to parent your child!😊

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

Isn’t child led pretty much how it used to be in the past? Children choose what skin lol they want to learn and get into an apprenticeship. They usually go study under s master or someone who is already doing the job.

As it relates to the CC Foundations program, it does cover 7 subjects in respect to memory work which is great for students just starting, ages 4-7ish. However, I discovered it was not a full curriculum and that I needed to supplement for each subject that I planned on teaching my son as we were entering 3rd grade and on (around 7 or 8). It was made clear I would need to supplement for math and English, but it was not made clear with all the other subjects such as Latin, geography, history, and science. In addition , CC does not offer their own curriculum for these subjects so I either had to go with their recommendations such as Story of the World or research my own curriculum.

I have decided to homeschool. We are in deschooling mode now. This is a great time for me to observe my child. I feel bad, but so glad I made the decision to homeschool. Thank you for this video!

I'm late to this video, but I wanted to say something about his comment on being "unrealistically concerned" about dangers. I feel that it also really depends on where you live. I live an hour south of Seattle WA, and belive me, the dangers are real. There was just a man here in our school district (thankfully we homeschool) that was trying to grab kids on their way to school in the morning. He was never caught. We have registered offenders that live a block to a couple blocks away in almost every direction. And whenever we go to a park we have to keep an eagle eye out for needles. People have tried to grab children right from their parents in store parking lots, and even in the middle of stores around here. I wish my child could have the freedom I had as a child, but there is no way. Not around here, anyway. And that's a very sad thing, indeed.

Hello, we homeschool our 3rd grader in Illinois; do you have knowledge of an end-of-year assessment or any grade level assessment to add to our annual portfolio? So far, I've found nothing similar to an IOWA test as an example. thank you - great channel!

I’m curious how best to introduce them to things for them to be curious about. This topic seems reasonable but seems like they should still be led to different topics. How would they know they’re interested in learning rhetoric or logic or government or electrical circuits or medicine? Those things don’t just come up in the play room so I don’t totally understand the child led concept.

I am a certified teacher and I create educational modules for homeschoolers. I have already been taking this approach even when I thought of the public schools. I no longer teach in the public schools but create lessons for those who are homeschooling their children so the parents can be in control of their child's learning. The key is to think outside the box where the parent or teacher is the guide on the side rather than the sage on the stage. I am a musician, writer, and producer so I use these skills I have in these areas to produce highly engaging materials. My approach is very media oriented. I own a tech and media company as well. I think we should connect because I have resources that would help with this viewpoint and philosophy of education. Contact me if you like or check out my content. I do believe that kids should be able to focus on what they want to learn the most so that they can create a career around this eventually. Some of the most successful people in high fields of industry are self-taught as well.. it is important to teach kids how to make sure the information they find is truthful because there's a lot of false information out there. Keeping this in mind with the unschooling idea is the ideal marriage of two schools of thought. [email protected]

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 you start unschooling exactly? Is the paper work that I need to file. Or do I just start unschooling on my own?

I loved what you said about real life not being doing worksheets and then going to play. Real is being responsible.

Thank you so much for this confidence to homeschool. My daughter is 6 and I just started homeschooling. Your videos help me so much!! Thank you!❤

What a wonderful quote! Thank you for sharing. I can't wait to unschool my future kids!

How do I unschool in Texas & do I have to unschool every time I move?

What a wonderful interview! Thank you both for sharing your time and expertise! I have one concern. I'm completely sold on the idea of homeschooling my children but I'm worried I won't have enough knowledge to guide them properly. I'm an avid learner and would love to share that passion with my kids but I still fear that I'm going to forget to teach them something or even miss an entire subject of of learning altogether! What are the chances of that happening?

A wonderful talk! I love Peter‘s work! Thanks!!

Why are video games not valid learning?

I was unschooled except I did learn how to read and write and do basic math. When it came to every other study, I was encouraged to follow my passion, which was history.

So helpful and concise, which I greatly appreciate! Thank you!

Hi, I know I'm a year late seeing this interview. New York requires standardized testing every other year until 8th grade. You have to take them every year 9-12. It's an issue I worry about with my oldest.

it depends on the type of parent, one is a great homeschooler, other is an anti-wax extremist conservative (the bad kind) homophobic nutcase

Hello! Can you please recommend a john holt book to me? I am new to homeschooling/unschooling. Also any other books you recommend....thank you!

Hi! Is the list of homeschool outings still available? It looks like your website has been shut down.