“We don’t teach our children anything,” the spiritual influencer Mami Onami proclaims in a TikTok. “Anything that they learn is in response to either their interest or their questions.” She has ...

The days are about to look very different for most parents in a few weeks as schools let out for the summer. But for Christina Franco, 39, summer days in her upstate New York home are no different ...

Recently, I was helping my kindergartener with his school bug project—a task that should have been fun (researching stink bugs! The dream assignment for a 5-year-old boy!). But as he struggled to ...

A new wave of controversial influencers suggest shirking standard curriculum and instead follow the child’s lead based on what they’re interested in learning. A fringe group of parents think following ...

It’s that time of year again, when kids are filling their new “Frozen” backpacks with fresh pencils and Fruit Roll-Ups. But for unschoolers, this time of year is no different than January or June. For ...

Most of us have been home with our kids for at least a month. My kids have been home since March 6 (but who’s counting?), and although we are happy to keep our distance as long as necessary, I ...

Here's some of what I know already about unschooling, before conducting the survey. Defined most simply, unschooling is not schooling. Unschoolers do not send their children to school and they do not ...

In Buncombe County, more than 600 children may be fully or partially unschooled. The age when a child learns to read is not a top concern. Parents who unschool say they must defend their decision to ...

This is the last in a series of four posts concerning a survey, conducted recently by Gina Riley and me, of 75 adults (age 18 to 49, median age 24) who were “unschooled” during much or all of what ...

As yellow school buses rumble through Nicole Puckett’s Spokane, Wash., neighborhood, her eight children are often asleep in bed. When they wake up, instead of heading to school, they go downstairs to ...