Oddbean

Oh, didn’t you know that BIG EDUCATION is the problem!? That kid needs to be unschooled ASAP. If only he had the opportunity to play video games all day would he have the skills needed to fill those two wallets with sats.

From what I’ve gleaned so far one core principle is to put the kids interest(s) in the forefront and in order to truly let them lead the way you should get rid of artificial structures, no? I’m glad to hear that at least we can agree on them doing drugs seems like a bad idea.

that's the strawman version; you wouldn't also let your unschooled kid run into upcoming traffic just because they choose it. Again, unschooling is about MORE parenting than delegating your parenting to the schooling system. It requires being MORE present, not less.

You are the one who keep talking about stuff that would mean that the kid is put in immediate danger - not me. I never said you #unschooling meant “hey my kid might die if they so choose”. However, you could argue that my video-game example is a straw man. Are you talking about homeschooling now? That’s a different thing. Because as far as I’ve understood it there are unschooling-schools. Or are you saying that #unschooling is a concept that can coexist in a kids life along side a regular schooling system? I just want end this note by saying that I do agree with you that it’s probably truly beneficial if parents are present, interested in their kids interests, and also help them exploring their interests.

> You are the one who keep talking about stuff that would mean that the kid is put in immediate danger - not me. I never said you #unschooling meant “hey my kid might die if they so choose”. I'm using the extreme examples to show that of course there must be limits to the "the kid chose it" position and that the "whatever the kid wants" has a very real limit. > However, you could argue that my video-game example is a straw man. No, some unschoolers *do* consider letting the kid play as much video-games as they choose to be the right approach; I think that's a really terrible idea; video-games can literally be as addictive as meth and most likely those parents wouldn't allow their kids to do meth if they asked for it. I am not talking about homeschooling; I don't agree with the position of homeschooling.