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Ask around at your next homeschool conference to compare what people answer when this question pops up: "What does it mean to unschool?" Some will answer that unschooling is homeschooling without using a pre-packaged curriculum. Others will say it's simply the degree of freedom that the parents allow the child in his learning. Still others will say that unschooling defies definition because each child is unique and will go at learning in his own way, in his own time. So what's the big difference between homeschooling and unschooling? In homeschooling the parents make decisions on how to best educate the child, while in unschooling the child somehow makes those decisions for herself.

These easy and fun math activities are great for helping preschoolers learn number recognition, one to one correspondence, counting, and understanding quantity.

The Home School Digest is a publication with a strong emphasis on a Christian perspective towards homeschooling. Here, you'll find practical tips, simple suggestions and bold biblical challenges that make up an open forum for wrestling through the complex issues that affect homeschooling families.

Cornerstone Curriculum offers complete homeschool packages. This is a Christian curriculum.

This list is sponsored by Home Education Magazine (HEM) for networking and communication within the online homeschooling community.

A look at unschooling as a philosophy of life from an African-American perspective.

This is an on-topic list dedicated to the discussion of "living math" - mathematics education using living books and materials, as opposed to traditional curricula as the primary learning tool. Discussion applies to mathematics learning from birth to adult self education, with the understanding that arithmetic is only one feature of mathematics as a whole. Math history topics will apply as well. Educators using Charlotte Mason, Thomas Jefferson Ed (relaxed classical), Montessori, Waldorf and unschooling methods may benefit from the exchange of ideas.

Patrick Farenga's discussion of the role John Holt played in the evolution of the homeschooling movement.

Penelope Trunk discusses the idea of whether or not a student who attends typical school during the school year is then homeschooled by their attentive parents in the summer.