Read an interview of Valerie and Laurie with the local press.

See Laurie's personal unschooling page.

It is difficult for me to define unschooling to a layperson, so I asked some of my friends on an online discussion board to help me out.

Unschooling is life as a child would live it, unencumbered by society's 'shoulds'; with wonder and spontaneity, curiosity and imagination. It's a conscious decision to live in connection with your children, and to live with your eyes wide open. -Rue Unschooling, for me, is to resist the culture of schooling. -Manav Unschooling is first, removing all aspects of what you thought you needed to learn and teach, and choosing those things that you actually do need. Then you live them out. -pj For me it's following my child's lead. Sometimes that takes us to traditional workbooks and sometimes we do "nothing" and yet other days we are hiking around the woods trying to find poison ivy. -Camie Many other definitions can be found at Unschooling.com's What is Unschooling? page.