My name is Melissa, and I\u2019m an unschooler. I will admit that I\u2019m more comfortable saying that now than I ever have been. These days nobody blinks at the idea of homeschooling. But I usually get some sort of reaction to telling people that we unschool. Sometimes it\u2019s genuine curiosity. (Really? What is unschooling?) Sometimes, it\u2019s confusion. (How will your kids learn to speak if you don\u2019t teach them grammar?) Sometimes, it\u2019s good-hearted teasing by family members who think I\u2019m just a little bit nuts. (I think she even unschools her dogs!) However it comes up, I\u2019m always willing and happy to talk about it!<\/p>\n
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There are five in our family: my husband, Doug, and me, our seventeen-year-old son, Jackson, our fifteen-year-old son, Nathan, and our nine-year-old daughter, Gianna. We started homeschooling Jackson in kindergarten\u00a0just to see<\/em>\u00a0and have never looked back. The first few years, we followed a curriculum. Actually, we were never very good at following a curriculum, but the first few years, we tried.<\/p>\n We started moving toward unschooling after reading\u00a0Dumbing Us Down<\/em>\u00a0by John Taylor Gatto. It was great for me because it got me thinking about education beyond the institution of school. Then I read a few books by John Holt. I had never read books that so resonated with me. The idea of unschooling really made sense to Doug, too. It was a gradual transition toward unschooling. Letting go of formal academics is not easy when it is all you\u2019ve ever known. But now, we are full-fledged unschoolers.<\/p>\n There are about as many different ways to unschool as there are families who unschool. We focus mostly on interests, natural strengths and relationships. More than just trying to encourage our kids to learn, though, Doug and I model curiosity and daily learning. We mostly learn by just living life: going for walks, watching TV, playing games, having conversations with a wide variety of people, going places, discussing ideas, going to the store, volunteering, looking at magazines, hanging out with friends, listening to music, asking our dear friend, Google, lots of questions, doing nothing and yes, sometimes we even learn by reading a book!<\/p>\n I heard a fellow unschooler say that when she is asked when they do school, her answer is \u201calways and never.\u201d I love that! Learning in our life isn\u2019t compartmentalized at all. We fundamentally trust that our kids will learn what they need to know to function in life and to be lifelong learners without coercion from us, but as we have an open mind and a willingness to help them succeed.<\/p>\n I recently read this quote by Robert Brault and my heart leapt. Yes! This is how I want to be with our kids! “Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.” With that, let me tell you a little about the kids that my expectations are pursuing.<\/p>\n Jackson is our oldest child. He is a kind, bright, devoted, funny and sometimes rigid guy who loves music, video games, Minecraft, physics and astronomy. He is one of the most loyal and considerate people I know. He has taken Latin with his best friends for the past four years. With minimal preparation and a relatively small amount of formal academics in his lifetime, Jackson passed the GED and has begun taking classes at Grand Canyon University.<\/p>\n I think the best thing unschooling has done for our family is that it’s taken the power struggle out of our day. What has been so cool for me, personally, is seeing how learning really can happen without coercion. Because they get to choose most of what they do throughout the day, the kids are usually happy to help out or change directions when I ask them to.<\/p>\n We have discovered a lot through our unschooling journey\u2014a journey that we are still on. One thing is that this lifestyle really works for us. I know it isn’t for everyone, just like I know homeschooling isn’t for everyone. It works well with our parenting style. I have actually been amazed at how much\u00a0school<\/em>\u00a0stuff my kids have learned on their own or with my help, but at their request. They remember just about everything they learn, and they do what they do well.<\/p>\n I\u2019m passionate about unschooling because it\u2019s just who we are.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Melissa Lake lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, Doug, and their three kids: Jackson, Nathan and Gianna. 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Nathan is incredibly fun, funny and quick-witted, sensitive, creative and boisterous. Nathan is amazing with people. I remember when he was about eight or nine, a new family had moved in next door. One afternoon he said to me, \u201cMom. I\u2019ll be right back. I\u2019m going to go meet the new neighbors.\u201d That\u2019s just Nathan. He also loves video games, Minecraft, music, Latin and Legos. He is just as happy playing music with Jackson as he is playing spies with his younger sister.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/unschooling-bubble250.jpg?resize=250%2C166&ssl=1\")
Gianna is spirited, creative, shy and has a laugh that is absolutely contagious. Gianna chooses her friends very carefully. She has a great sense of style. She loves learning about the US presidents, animals (especially baby animals)\u00a0and China.\u00a0Gianna is a spelling whiz and the only one of our kids who has always been unschooled. She knows more geography than I do!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mellisa-Lake.jpg?resize=67%2C100&ssl=1\")
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