An Excerpt from Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee

Although the activities of our children, as I have described them throughout this book, indicate that neither child spent hours grappling with traditional curriculum content, each was becoming exposed quite naturally to subjects. The difficulty was ours: we had to learn to look beyond labels to understand this. As we dissected Georgina's and Christian's experiences, we discovered that social studies, math, science, language arts, music, reading, and health could not be separated out as distinct subjects of study in our children's unschooled lives. In fact, what had been misleading to us, and caused us to distrust our children's natural inclinations to learn, had been our need to apply subject matter labels to their ever-boundless learning ventures. When we finally understood this, it became much easier for us to let go of our worries and trust that our children would fare well no matter what they chose to do.