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When child-led learning leads to nothing but YouTube and you start to panic

I have been following my seven-year-old's interests for two years of unschooling and all she wants to do is watch YouTube videos about slime and I am starting to panic that natural learning is not real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Trust in natural development is tested most severely in the spaces where we cannot see obvious progress or value.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Alternative education — Montessori Waldorf unschooling?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.