(Thank you, Miche, for sharing this video with me… I couldn’t get it out of my head.)

I’ve been thinking an awful lot about making the transition from homeschooling to unschooling Hunter, for many reasons. Maybe it all started with Leo’s post, Education Needs to be Turned on its Head. Or maybe it started back when I was in school and realized I was learning in spite of my teachers, and not because of them.

I recently joined an unschooling group on facebook and found some interesting thoughts by people far more qualified to have an opinion on the matter than I am. Here are 15 of my favorite thoughts about education without commentary because, really, what can I possibly add to the words of these masters:

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Let’s face it… we all want to torture our kids. And if we’re really honest about it, we’d like to thoroughly enjoy the process. After all, they won’t be kids forever. But, with so many interesting ways to torture them, how do we find the very best? I’m sure you each have your personal favorites, but I wanted to share my top five with you. It’s taken me years to perfect these techniques for maximum results, and now I find them completely delightful in every way. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do:

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Do you ever feel like you are the one parent who is doing it all wrong? I was just reading about Hothouse Kids and the trouble with “giftedness” in our quest to be special. What is the deal with superstar (Hothouse) kids and their parents? Why do we compare ourselves, and our children, to them?

I don’t get it. I see these kids on TV and I am totally fascinated for the entire time they are on stage. They are talented and funny and gifted and fearless and charming and determined and, most importantly, four or five years old! But when I look around at all the kids I know who are that age, I don’t see any prospects of that. 

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