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[quote=Anonymous]The theory is that you follow the child's interests and use that as a way to introduce broader concepts. So let's say your kid is really into bugs. You might get books from the library to teach them about different types of bugs, their habitats, their body structures, their life cycles, etc. (science), and use those books on bugs as reading practice as well. Then come up with an art project about bugs to cover that. Then, depending on the age of the child, you might watch for fireflies and practice counting the number you see. So the child gets all of the fundamentals in the context of what they are interested in, and it encourages a natural curiosity and desire to learn. Obviously there are a lot of ways this can go wrong, though. For instance, not all parents will put in the effort to provide a well-rounded education about bugs to reinforce all of these skills, they'll just read the kid books on bugs and maybe watch a nature show or go to the nature center and be done with it. Or you could have a child who's not really suited to unschooling because they don't have a natural internal sense of motivation and will lose interest as soon as it becomes challenging (e.g., a child who struggles with math will decide he's bored with bugs when it comes to counting them because it's hard, and the unschooling parent will just follow his lead instead of making sure the child learns basic math concepts). Then you get a kids who's ready, age-wise, to go to college, but has huge gaps in his knowledge base and can't function in that environment without serious remediation. Done properly, it's incredibly demanding and time-consuming for parents.[/quote]

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