Paula Sjogerman

on 1/5/03 1:25 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

> I thought unschooling involved
> giving your children all the resources they need to accomplish what they
> want, whether it be textbooks, videos, pots and pans, whatever.>>

What makes you think it's not?

> my question is, can bits and pieces of mainstream educational methods be
> used, if at the leading of the child or the suggestion of the parent, and
> this still come under the definition of unschooling?

IMHO, it does. I have one child who will never use a workbook or textbook in
his life. I have one extremely linear, organized child who likes to see
tangible progress. She requested a math workbook. (We got some of the Key
Curriculum series) She does them when she wants. She stops when she wants.
If she got them and said "these are stupid, I will never do them" I would
have found someone to sell them to. That's what makes it unschooling. To all
of us, this is no different than learning about government from "The West
Wing, " 1776, and NPR. All tools.

Paula, trying to be less of a lurker

Julie Stauffer

<<Is there anyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area?>>

We are actually from just north of San Antonio, but we are going to be in
Fort Worth this weekend for the stock show. Come on out and visit. We have
been unschooling for about 3 years. I quit worrying about what my kids will
do in the future because they are doing such neat stuff in the present. I
can't imagine them simply stopping because they became adults. My dd (12)
raises dairy goats and has her own business selling the milk. We just put
in chickens and the kids are planning on selling eggs as well.

Julie