Not to go too far afield, but I think there are other ways to unschool actually, Shari.

I heard one unschooler talking about having "math time" every day, but letting her kids decide what math to do from the many choices she had made available for them. I thought that was just about the most sensible approach to unschooling that I'd ever heard, and frankly, it's kind of what we're doing. It reminds me of Montessori at its best, actually.

Some of this just comes down to semantics, of course, and I don't mean to be difficult. smile I just thought that was a pretty smart approach regardless, and the person doing it did call herself an unschooler. FWIW...

Kriston