Tia Leschke

> There is that very awkward period for unschoolers when the kids are ten,
give
> or take a couple of years, and they're learning TONS of stuff that doesn't
> show, while the other kids are learning to write in cursive and do long
> division.
>
> After that hump, people don't complain NEARLY as much about unschooled
kids,
> and I find more and more local and in-person homeschoolers who were afraid
> NOT to teach their kids school-style looking at my kids, and looking at
their
> kids, and saying they wished they had been braver.

I wonder if this is something that should be mentioned to new unschoolers as
a possible pitfall. Kind of like, if a new mother *knows* that there are
certain periods when growth spurts can be expected, she won't be as likely
to thing that she "just doesn't have enough milk". Maybe we need to warn
people about that place where it's going to look like our kids aren't
learning anything and the school kids are. I know I fell for that trap, and
it was what influenced me to start pushing reading at age 12.
Tia