tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830837025531932611.post2697575061317135991..comments2014-12-01T08:48:03.118+00:00Comments on Diary of a Home Ed Novice: Experimental Unschooling Day 5Yarwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03098749995710313233noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830837025531932611.post-35647420677425611412012-05-20T18:09:03.405+01:002012-05-20T18:09:03.405+01:00Thanks! that's really encouraging :) xThanks! that's really encouraging :) xYarwohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03098749995710313233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830837025531932611.post-78422732731741171692012-05-20T16:45:42.159+01:002012-05-20T16:45:42.159+01:00"However, autonomous learning (child-led rath..."However, autonomous learning (child-led rather than parent/teacher-directed) can happily work alongside some kind of structure, which is probably where I am."<br /><br />That's where we ended up too. I've enjoyed reading your unschooling experiment and you've got years left to work it all out though. Our style of home ed changed a lot over the years, but it was really at my daughter's request that we ended up with some kind of academic structure once she hit secondary school age. She chooses the subjects she studies and when, but within those choices we do "do work" - she's that sort of girl, and the structure suits us too, as work from home parents. You're doing a fabulous job of investigating what suits all of you, and I think you're absolutely right that the love of finding out is an invaluable thing to pass on to a child. Perhaps you'll end up going down an unschooling route, or perhaps you'll end up favouring autonomous choices within a certain amount of structure, but whatever choices you make will be right for you and yours, which is what counts :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com