knarf_navillus, the description of your cousins who are unschooling which means running wild, being filthy and illiterate, actually sounds like a different move

knarf_navillus, the description of your cousins who are unschooling which means running wild, being filthy and illiterate, actually sounds like a different movement called "radical unschooling". Radical unschoolers often call themselves unschoolers, and some perhaps are, but others will adopt positions such as books are oppressive to children, and eating ice cream for all meals and watching daytime adult TV from 10am to 4pm every day is fine if that's what the child feels is best for them at the time, and discouraging such pursuits, or even failing to fully and enthusiastically support them means the parent is not truly committed to the tenets of radical unschooling. (Your aunt isn't S.D. is she?)