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When your unschooled teen says you failed them by not providing structure

We have been unschooling for four years and my teenager just told me they feel unprepared for college and blamed me for not giving them structure and I do not know if I destroyed their future.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of responsibility for another's path reveals how we conflate our choices with their outcomes.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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