Looking for unschooling resources

Question:
I'm getting started homeschooling my 3 1/2 year old and have read some small articles about child led learning and unschooling. Does anyone know of any newsletters or books related to this issue that would help me formulate a method without feeling like I have no structure to our school days?

Answer:
-I especially like Growing Without Schooling magazine. Home Education magazine is good also. Read the books of John Holt!

We unschool. We have rhythm to our days, rather than an official structure. We get up, we go to bed, we go to the library, a new kids magazine comes in the mail, we go to Park Day, we go to the grocery store, we play with computer, we draw, we read.....things happen and they provide a rhythm, a better word for our lives than structure.

Actually you probably are already unschooling your child. You provide the appropriate tools, toys, and books for his skills. You answer his/her questions. We find that we live and we learn and that is hard to tell the difference.

Below is a resource list....it needs updating, but most of it is still -I agree with Ruthann's ideas and her "Resources" list. Here's some more Internet resources on unschooling: (from Leslie)

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This web site: http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Rant/r-rlast15.html is from the Car Talk Guys on National Public Radio. It is a "rant" about education that explains unschooling in a different manner. Excellent stuff, I believe. Please check it out! Follow ups are nice, too.

Then, this page was conceived after his original "rant": http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Education/ Also many excellent ideas.

Family Unschoolers Network http://www.iqcweb.com/fun/index.htm

Links for Unschooling (the biggest list of unschool links I've found!) http://www.azstarnet.com/~mariann/ullinks.htm

Destinations Homeschool Guidebook (for those who want to track their child's progress...for all homeschoolers, not just unschoolers, but very useful for unschoolers who need or want to document progress and set good goals) http://www.netins.net/showcase/nurture/Destinations/index.html

>From Out of the System, an article written by a former teacher

http://members.aol.com/Barbooch/James.html

Curriculum to Unschooling (how one family evolved) http://homeschooling.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa111197.htm

Unschooling Authors (good reading recommendations here) http://www3.geocities.com/Athens/6529/index2.html

Christy's Garden (an unschooler's webpage...very impressive) http://www.smokylake.com/Christy/default.htm

Let's Get Unschooling Straight (discussing what unschooling is & isn't) http://www.madrone.com/Home-ed/hs35.htm

Dealing With Doubts http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/HEM143.97/143.97_art_dbt.html

What Is Homeschooling, Anyway? another unschooler's website http://www.wco.com/~bicheler/what.html

Unschooling Undefined (a favorite unschooling article!!) http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/undefine.htm

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher (by John Taylor Gatto) http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html

Netizen Activist Resource Centre Virtual Library (some great articles here) http://www.netizen.org/Progressive/proglib/

Heather's Homeschooling Page (some EXCELLENT articles on homeschooling) http://www.madrone.com/home-ed.htm

The Home-ed Frequently Questioned Answers list (great little piece on homeschooling, much of it rather tongue-in-cheek funny) http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/fqa.htm

Eleven Reasons To Raise Your Own Child by refraining from institutionalizing your child and choosing instead "homeschooling," "unschooling," or nonschooling your precious child http://www.corecom.net/locational/hermitage/RaiseYourChild.html

Can a Christian Be an Unschooler? (there are a number of Christian organizations who take exception to unschooling) http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/can-a-christian-be-an-unschooler.htm

Nurturing Children's Natural Love of Learning http://www.naturalchild.com/jan_hunt/homeschooling.html

Life Is an Education http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/Life_is_an_education.html

What's Wrong with School? http://www.parentsjournal.org/alankrantz.html

Unschooling and Quality Education http://www.madrone.com/Home-ed/hs22.htm

How to Homeschool Department--Eclectic Homeschool Online http://www.eho.org/howtodept.htm

Unschooling? Unlikely! (excerpts from a discussion about whether unschooling could actually work for most kids) http://www.madrone.com/Home-ed/hs25.htm

Common Objections to Homeschooling (answered by John Holt) http://www.naturalchild.com/common_objections/index.html

Unschooling UnChristian? There is a great essay by this title on this web page: http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~muncyj/homeschooling/thoughts.html Also on that page, a great article (lots, really!) on "Diversity in Home Education" that I love! 17 articles in all.