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How to respond when unschooled children enjoy traditional academic materials

My mother-in-law keeps buying workbooks for my unschooled kids and they love doing them and now I wonder if I have been denying them something they actually want.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery that children might naturally gravitate toward conventional educational tools challenges assumptions about the inherent harm of structured learning.

Worth thinking about

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