I have always been intrigued by unschooling though I have never embraced it. I have admired it, and have also feared it. I have found it intriguing and misguided all at once.
My personal fears towards unschooling are my own. I come from a highly motivated background where measurements and getting into college are of utmost importance... never mind if college is the child's actual goal... that is the benchmark as to whether I have done a good job or not. Reasonable or unreasonable as it may seem, I have never felt that unschooling was a good road to my intended goal.
Still, I have admired the freedom from stress, from the measurements, from society's guidelines that occur with unschooling. In many cases, unschooling has led to success beyond what can be achieved with rules and restrictions. Other times, it can go no-where... that is my fear. I fear that if I were to allow unschooling (past elementary years), that some serious slug-ness would occur.
That is probably my greatest fear.
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