Hi @alvinauh, definitely a good post for young parents to start planning ahead. I think most people (ourselves too sometimes) tend to follow the crowd, and if we decide on something against the norm, you can imagine the pressure and tons of "free advice".
End of the day, it's the parent's choice, and they should notice when their children are suffering in one of the learning environments. Sometimes parents may not be aware that there are other methods too, which is why this is an enlightenment post for them.
I'm happy it helps, I was just reminded on unschooling. Planning to do another post on it.
I know what you mean about suffering in a learning environment. Hopefully with changing trends, all learning environments will be fun in the future
Unschooling is really "something", but the parents have to invest quite a bit of time. Sorry, scratch that. It's a LOT of time.
I've met this family of nomads in Phuket - mommy, daddy and 5 kids. One of the sons was looking at pictures of Ang Ko Wat and asked Dad what it's all about. Dad just said, "You know what? Let's buy tickets there next week and we'll see for ourselves."
Dad then told me, "Why limit our kids learning to pages and screens, when we can afford to show them the real thing?" Quite mind-blown seriously.
Oh yeah, whole family is also on a raw food diet! #extreme
@maverickfoo you are 100% correct - with unschooling parents have to invest so much of their time, and it's not always possible especially when financial constraints force them to spend most of their day at work (this is mostly the case here in SA). The family of nomads in Phuket have the right idea - I absolutely love it - but as I hinted at above, not everyone enjoys the financial freedom to do this.
Something to aspire to, maybe? :)
Most definitely! To be honest, one of the reasons I'm here is to attempt to free myself up somewhat!