Do you just leave your five year old on her own, since her life is her own? Well, unschooling doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Homeschoolers argue wit

Do you just leave your five year old on her own, since her life is her own? Well, unschooling doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Homeschoolers argue with each other over just these sort of questions. My opinion, unschooling does not mean "no teaching" and it certainly does not mean "no parental involvement". Most of the unschoolers we know have younger kids, and they have lots of parental involvement. Mom (usually it is Mom) does activities with the kids and comes up with fun ideas and projects to do. They help the kids pursue what they're interested in and introduce new topics the kids might get excited about. (We are not unschoolers, but we're fairly unschool-y. We have lessons, but we take a good deal of trouble to make lessons fun and interesting. Mostly we succeed.)