Quote:
Originally Posted by aelle  Not necessarily actually, especially if you practice a very "hands off" kind of parenting (which would make sense if you believe children learn best on their own).
I think the mama of the Little Travellers is a working unschooling single mom... Not sure how she manages that exactly, but her kids seem very bright and fullfilled. |
I think when you see "hands off" in a sentence about unschooling, it's
usually either from someone criticizing unschoolers' relatively "permissive" approach to education and often parenting/discipline OR an unschooler explaining the philosophy and insisting that it's NOT "hands off." It's kind of a vague metaphorical phrase though.
But regardless of the level of interaction involved in the family's education practices, it's unsafe and often illegal to leave small children without adult supervision for too long. If you're sending them to school, it doubles as a crappy but still handy daycare.
If you need to keep track of your unschooled kid's academic progress for some reason (e.g. paranoid spouse, state government), I think you'd have to spend a lot of time with them to know what they know, since you aren't giving them any tests.
Though I don't believe it's impossible for single working parents (or two working parents) to unschool their kids.