Quote From: bobbybillWell, we pay attention to our kids. We think about what they know now, and can do, and what they'll need to know and be able to do. So far, they're fine.
I suspect you won't find this satisfying, but there it is.
I am not looking for satisfaction, I really haven't heard much about "unschooling" so I am trying to understand it better. Honesty works just fine.
Let me ask you this, and again - just trying to figure this all out - what is it that you want them to be able to do when they are adults. Somebody posted earlier that they thought their kids would be self-employed and not have to ever worry about working for someone else. So I have to wonder, what if the child decides at some point that he would like to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or an astronaut - how can be sure, or at least reasonably assured, that "unschooling" is going to give him the skills he needs to enter those very tough, very specific, very competitive professions?
I know when I was a child, I wanted to work at my grandfather's gas station. Left to my own interest and self-direction, I would have been playing with the cash register and credit card machines all day. It's not that I didn't LEARN anything there (I'm GREAT with a credit card!), but I'm not convinced that would have given me the skills I needed once I matured and had different aspirations.
