My wife and I pulled our 8-year-old out of traditional school to try unschooling, but we're finding ourselves in constant tension about what 'following the child's natural learning' actually means day to day. She thinks I'm too hands-off when our daughter wants to spend weeks just drawing, and I think she's too anxious about academic milestones, but we're both just guessing and it's affecting our marriage.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to the same alternative educational philosophy discover their interpretations create daily friction that threatens both the child's learning environment and their relationship.
“Where Are You with Alternative education — Montessori Waldorf unschooling?”
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