In response to the question, “Wouldn the term atural learning be more affirming than the use of the negative in the term unschooling?
“Lots of people make this point, but I never see the negation as negative in a value-judgment sense when I use the word–to me unschooling is as positive as unchaining, unbinding, unleashing, unfolding, unfurling, unlimiting….” “All mean freedom and growth and vast possibilities to me.” Unschooling is trusting in a child’s natural curiosity to teach them what they need to know. The parent is there to answer questions, talk, infect the kids by their own curiosity about life! (though curious about what you’re interested rather in what you think would be good for the kids to be interested in!), bring in cool resources (that the kids can feel free to ignore if it just isn’t the right moment for their interest to ignite). The hard parts are: trusting natural curiosity to draw your child to what they need to learn when. (Math is fascinating. Kids only get turned off to it by the boring way school approaches it.) trusting a child’s natural schedule rather than the school imposed one (eg, th
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