My wife and I think a lot about home schooling. I especially like the idea of unschooling. We are currently at a Montessori school now and it is a great fit for my 4 and 6 year old boys. However, it is expensive and I do think I could do a better job if I was able to focus on this.
I have some questions:
How many hours did you spend per day on average?
Could you spend an hour or two a day and cover the same amount of material as they would do in full day at school leaving the rest of the time for unschooling / free play?
Thanks for the article, its good. I hope you get some traction.
Hi, I spent, on average about 4 hours, 4 days per week teaching. I let them have most Fridays off. And yes, some days we had a lot of extra time for free play. Thank you!
You can be so creative with home/Unschooling! Could you do 2-3 hours of "instruction" each day and your parenting partner do 1-2? Could you "teach" during evening hours after work? Some weekends? There are likely homeschool coops near you (or create one!!) that would allow you to teach a certain subject and then another homeschooling family could teach a different subject? Extracurricular experiences just = LIFE! Music lessons? Sports teams? Dance lessons? Woodshop classes? 4H or FFA? Trips to the grocery store? Museums? Farms? ALL OF THIS is learning! Isn't it wonderful!