What is Unschooling?

There is more to learning than lessons.



Unschooling is the opportunity for you and your child to engage in learning together, trusting your experience and your child’s natural desire to learn. By being present with your child’s curiosity and creativity, together you discover knowledge in ways not limited by school curricula.



Unschooling is the opportunity for you and your child to engage in learning together, trusting your experience and your child’s natural desire to learn. By being present with your child’s curiosity and creativity, together you discover knowledge in ways not limited by school curricula. Read the transcript


Benefits of Unschooling

You get to pose questions to your kids creatively and in the moment to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Following your child’s interests and curiosity results in deeper levels of natural engagement and learning in all subjects.

Play is an important part of a child’s learning. With your aid, it develops their imagination and their social and thinking skills.

Engaging daily with your child’s needs and interests creates a deeper bond of trust and  unconditional love with lifelong results.

You've Got Options. Reframing how you see learning is the starting place. 


The Unschooling 101 Course is the fastest way to get clear on what unschooling is. But more importantly, it will show you what to do! 

This done-on-your-time program walks you through the basic principles of unschooling and how to sidestep common obstacles unschoolers face. You don’t need to spend your time and energy trying to track down reliable information online. In this course, Sue shares all you need to know based on her journey guiding others since 1998.

You’ll finish the program feeling ready to soar in unschooling your kids. You’ll enjoy:

  • Steps for setting up an unschooling home
  • Strategies for overcoming fears
  • Practical suggestions about how unschoolers learn
  • Information on your role as the unschooling parent
  • Bonus ebooks, journals, and guides
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10 Tips about Unschooling


  1. Unschooling is a style of Homeschooling. "Homeschooling" is the legal umbrella term for all homeschooling methods.
  2. Some families use unschooling as an educational/homeschooling method only, while others incorporate the philosophy into all aspects of parenting and family life.
  3. Unschooling doesn’t rely on grades, tests, or artificial subject divisions to measure learning.
  4. Unschoolers learn in a similar way to how adults learn after they've left school.
  5. Unschoolers focus on the Learning and The Learner, not the Teaching/Teacher.
  6. Unschooling parents believe that Real Life holds the learning opportunity the child needs and wants.
  7. Unschooling parents recognize that humans are naturally inquisitive and want to learn.
  8. Unschoooling parents stay tuned into the child, recognizing and fueling their interests, helping them discover resources to explore further.
  9. Unschoolers learn based on their interests instead of particular subjects and specific ages.
  10. Unschooling parents prioritize the parent/child relationship emphasizing partnership in decision making.