Thank you Celia! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

Great, thank you to everyone for all the information given. I love placing the teaching of children as part of the whole family dynamic. I see here in the US a lot being left up to the public schools and while this is in fact a way of learning for some families, it does not work for all. We have chosen to home school our son age 11. We came to this after enrolling in a great school which became not so great with all the test prep, testing stress and leaving a lot of learning on the table while we “taught to take the test”. This and bullying caused us to re-think what education meant to our family. We now homeschool and it has worked great. We also as I have learned have been doing un-schooling as well to a degree. Researching topics our family is interested in and ones our son is interested in too.
Once again thank you for all the great information given.
Stephanie

Hi Stephanie, Marlies answered this in follow up to your question. I thought I would also add my two cents: unschooling is a form of homeschooling that is currently allowed in Canada and USA, and probably other places, although not in Germany, as Marlies points out.

Thanks for this addition, Niki. I also know unschooling families who take this on as child-led learning, so allowing the child to discover their interests on their own and then nurturing these and supplying information and educational materials in response to child-identified learning opportunities.

Thanks for clarifying Marlies. Here in Canada unschooling is a form of homeschooling and is permitted.