Unschooling

We were all born with a drive to learn 
that is more compelling than 
almost any other instinct. 

Unschooling, aka self design, open source learning, or free range education, is not something that we do to our children but largely a process of unlearning, or rethinking, for us parents.  Most adults are products of the traditional school system which convinced us that learning only happens when people with power over us - teachers, parents - force, coerce or otherwise "motivate" us to absorb information that people with power over teachers - education and developmental experts - decided that we should know.

Unschooling is the process of expanding mutual trust and respect as the child and parent continue to learn and grow together in new ways. With basic trust supported by compassionate communication as a base, every moment is exploding with new possibilities for both.  When the parent trusts themself – even when they don’t know something, very early in life the unschooled child discovers they can trust themselves too.

-- Text from this article What is unschooling?