1. When your proud 7 year old comes up to you and says "Look mom, I made a periscope" using cardboard, tape and a spoon and you have to quickly go Google it so that you don't feel like an idiot, you might be a Mom of an unschooler.
2. When you ask your 7 year old boy if he wants to take a science quiz on-line and he gets 10 answers correct in a row when you pick different answers, you might be a Mom of an unschooler.
3. When you go to a Science experiment at a local Science Museum and your 7 year old boy is raising his hand to all questions and getting the answers correct when you have no clue what the answers are, you might be a Dad of an unschooler.
4. When you suddenly have a deep knowledge of mummies, but you had no interest or knowledge of it until your child saw a demonstration on how to prepare a mummy at the age of five at The Children's Museum, you may be the mom of an unschooler.
5. When you start feeling guilty about using anything with palm oil because after your 6 year old became obsessed with orangutans, you learned that they were cutting down rain forest in Indonesia for palm oil plantations and removing the orangutans natural habitats, you may have an unschooler on your hands. Nutella has palm oil. :(
6. When your son's goal is to play a contrabass recorder and prior to 2 months ago when you spontaneously signed your child up for a recorder class, you had no idea that something like this existed, you may have an unschooler.
7. If your 7 year old son has been in The Nutcracker 3 times and loves ballet and has the desire to play the role of The Nutcracker and is completely unaware that being a male ballet dancer is not mainstream, you may have an unschooler.
8. When your child's friends span a 10 year or more age range, you may have an unschooler.
9. When your child does not recognize that racial differences can cause tension with some people, but accepts everyone as a possible friend without judgment, you may have an unschooler.
10. When your oldest child sees playtime as teaching his younger sister to read and do math, you may be in an unschooling household.
We are an unschooling family of 5 with a 7 year old son, 5 year old daughter and 2 year old baby boy and we wanted to share our experiences with others who may be interested in unschooling, are unschooling, or have the desire to learn about unschooling. We have been unschooling for 2 years and have discovered that it is a wonderful experience. I have discovered through this experience that once you become an unschooler, there is no turning back. Enjoy!
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