A practical guide for homeschooling and unschooling parents The popular Everything Counts ebook for teensi s now geared toward kids!
“They’re busy all day—but are they learning enough?”
Whether the questions are coming from others or from your own concern, this guide will help you see the learning that's happening all around you and your child! Learn how successful unschooling families tackle learning without curriculum.
Connect everyday life to familiar subjects
Everything Counts
walks you through six subject areas, with concrete examples of how learning shows up through play, interests, conversations, and daily life.
You’ll start recognizing how play connects:
Language Arts
Math
Science:
Social Studies
Health & PE
Fine Arts
Each subject page also includes “You might notice…”
examples to help you recognize understanding that may not look like schoolwork.
Something to return to when the doubts creep in
Maybe you’re stepping away from curriculum. Maybe you’ve been unschooling for a while, but still worry that ordinary days don’t count.
Keep this guide handy for those moments when you need help seeing what’s already happening—and how those experiences can build on one another over time.
You don’t have to turn the activities into lessons. You can use these connections to better understand and support your child.
What you’ll receive
A 10-page downloadable PDF
with an introduction, six subject reference pages, and links to further support.
Created by Sue Patterson of Unschooling Mom2Mom, drawing on nearly 30 years of experience helping parents recognize learning beyond the classroom.
The next time you think, “We didn’t do anything educational today,” take another look.
