Book reccos!

Ok I’m a complete nerd and love reading and research. I’ve been listening to a few books on parenting and schooling even before I found out I was pregnant. If anyone out there is like me, I wanna reccomend you “HUNT GATHER PARENT” I’m on chapter 6 and LOVE this book.

Also curious how many of you are planning to homeschool? OR if any of you have heard of UNSCHOOL? I’m just learning about the topic
At the moment and would love yo hear anyone else’s feedback or experience.

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What’s unschooled we are def planing on homeschooling

I definitely want to homeschool too. Following

Homeschooling for sure!

I know someone who unschooled. There were still books, but a lot more integrated learning with normal life stuff. Kids super smart and well adjusted. Big homeschool/unschool fan!

“unschooling” is more
Radical than homeschooling (and lends itself to having radical trust in your child) and has less precise parameters, and is also referred to as “child led learning” it’s not “curriculum based” .
Even though it is radical, it’s worth learning about incase you want to implement parts of it into homeschooling “In his acceptance speech for the New York City Teacher of the Year award (1990), John Gatto said, "Schools were designed by Horace Mann ... and others to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population."
I recommend researching John gatto (Nyc public school teacher of 30 years) authored “dumbing us down” and “weapons of mass instruction”

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