RE: Unschooling Blog, Vol. 25: Montessori Update, and the CRITICAL Difference Between Learner-Centered (Natural) and Top-Down Approaches to Education.

I mostly unschooled my two children, now teenagers. One thing that I learned through the whole process is that, when you show your children not WHAT to learn, but HOW to learn, their ability to pick up knowledge when the need arises is amazing. This includes the basics like math and reading. My children learned these skills on a different timetable than schooled kids. It was need driven on their part, but once that need in them arose to learn something, wow, do they pick it up fast! The human mind is a beautiful thing. All we really need to do as parents is function as guides and purveyors of tools. After that, just get out of the way. The child will do the rest.