lol- loving this topic!! our family is of the Unschooling ilk- and also trekking around the world. My kids in the past 8 years have lived in Canada, the Congo, Morocco, Australia and now we are in Malta. they have learned so much about LIFE and experienced huge amounts of history and geography and even science, just from our various travels. No, I don't tell them what to study, nor do I worry about it. They each have their own passions and they will turn those passions into their own future. My 15 year old daughter @quinlinwillow is an author (wrote her first full sized novel at 13), a scuba diver, and is getting ready to learn emergency first aid while working with the local Emergency Rescue Teams and is teaching herself photography with the aim of getting into underwater photography. My youngest daughter taught herself autoCAD at 10 years old, because she LOVES to build stuff and finds engineering fascinating. My older son taught himself to read at 7 years old and in 3 months was reading at a grade 5 level, he has an eidetic memory when it comes to facts and continuously reads about animals & biology, and at the age of 10, knows more about reptiles and various hominids than most university students..... my youngest is 8, doesn't want to read, doesn't want to write.... he just wants to imagineer through play, and I'm completely fine with that :D

having said that.... unschooling, or even homeschooling isn't for everyone. Some people cannot handle the thought of being engaged in the educational process or taking responsibility of guiding the learning process of their younglings. to each their own!!

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