It's easy to get caught up in the external expression of a principle, but I want to make it clear that unschooling isn't about unschooling. It's about making sure your kids are using the best education model for them - and because that means that it needs to be tailor fit to your individual kid, unschooling is the only model that really fits the bill.

The customization required is so customized that it's impossible to make a plan for someone else. Your kid (and people in general) will ultimately do what they want to do. Unschooling gives your kid permission to do this, and it gives you a framework to understand and allow it.

Unschooling isn't about not going to school - if that model works for your kid, going to school fits into the paradigm of unschooling.

In summary, unschooling is simply a 100% customized education, whatever that ends up looking like.

Citations

• Children need rules to be able to play with the rules
• Four Systems Thinking Strategies to Address Problems
• Following interests still needs discipline

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