Homeschool for Beginners: Unschooling Method

This is such a breath of fresh air to know I’m not alone. That our kids can learn so many traits and skills when they aren’t confined to what we think they need to learn. I love that your son loves meteorology

I have been homeschooling for the last 6 years. Over the years I’ve been called and called to Unschooling but I have been too afraid to change. Your words were exactly what I needed to hear at just the right time. We have been stuck in a rut and I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong and now I know I need to follow my heart. Unschooling Day 1 begins tomorrow. Thank you for helping me gather the courage.

This is what we do, I do have them so a little math sometimes just to keep them sharp. But they learn what they want, I have found out from my experience I can't force them to learn something they don't want to. When I told them that the plan is to buy a sailboat in a couple years after some full-time RVing my youngest daughter learned a crap tone about scuba diving and all the different sea creatures. It was cool! we are planning on learning lots of different history from the places we visit.

I was unschooled except I did learn how to read and write and do basic math. When it came to every other study, I was encouraged to follow my passion, which was history.

After 14 years of trying every other method, we’ve landed at unschooling. I love it so much. Our 6, 8, and 13 year olds are thriving with this method. I wish I could have a do over with our oldest who is now 21, and unschool him too!

I do a hybrid approach both traditional and unschooling depending on the subject and season. Great video. I so appreciate everything you had to say and it further validates my choice to incorporate this approach.

Dear, you have explained so accurately what we've been doing all this while with our kids, but have been so unsure. And after watching this video, I am so much more confident about myself as an unschooling parent! Woohoo. Thanks a ton.

I understand more now than I did when I was a kid. My son wanted to learn about fractions and I was worried because I remember learning about fractions in school and not understanding it. But as an adult and I returned to fractions to teach my son, I picked it up very quickly. I was surprised how easy fractions are and how back when I was a kid, they were so hard for me. I unschooling myself while unschooling my own kids.🙂

Wow! I just chose my homeschooling style! 💯 Thank you for this!

Love it! We are unschoolers…I can’t say it hasn’t been without challenges, but I truly believe this is the best way to raise confident, happy children 💞

This eases my mind. I'm going for a bit of mix with no strict time constraints. I've been so worried about "messing up". In my quest to unlearn traditional teaching, I've learned I can't actually mess up. Tfs.

The first time I heard of Unschooling, I KNEW it was how I wanted to approach learning for my son. Thank you for this great explanation. I'm subscribed!!!

Our first year of homeschooling, we didn't deschool and jumped straight into formal work. In hindsight, it was no different than the public school experience as far as structure. The second year just came to a close, and we unschooled the entire time, with the agreement that we'll continue MAP testing for record keeping purposes. We had so much fun, and I learned so much from my 6th grader! Going into 7th grade, we're planning the curriculum together to create a hybrid plan of sort. For my family, this experience made learning fun again! Also, I mentioned grades just for story telling purposes, we've decided not to tie his education to a specific grade level, only educational milestones.

Thank you so much for this concise and right on information!

Thank you for the video I’m new to homeschooling this has given me more direction ! God bless

Hello there and thank you for eases my mind I really did enjoy your video .I'm very new with the homeschooling

I feel this style can be very engaging and strengthen parent /child relationship

Thank you for this informative video. I’m a nursery school teacher 3-5yr olds. Although we are a school and have a schedule, we do our best to lean into what our children are interested in as a whole group and individual. Thank you for sharing your experience and reminding me why we are a child centered school.

Thank you. Very informative and full of resources. Trying unschooling. I like the books aswell. Very informative

Thanks for this video. I have daughters who are 7 and 9. They both started in traditional school in kinder, my 9 stayed up to grade 1 then home school up grade 2 and 3 with curriculum. My 7 yr started homeschool after kinder, then after a year unschooling. Then we decided to do homeschool for the both of they up until last school year. But I think I am now ready to embrace unschooling full time and I explained to my daughters that by next year it is all unschooling and they are both excited. Both of them already sharing what they want to learn. This video is really motivational for parents to who want to switch to unschooling.