Hi Sue, my name is Rebecca and I just wanted to say I’m so thankful for your podcast it has helped relieve a lot of my fears around unschooling, which I came to gradually. I started out on a pretty traditional homeschooling path with my 3 kids and would sit with them and the books from 9-5pm every day! We got unexpectedly pregnant with our fourth baby and thing started to “go off the rails” for a few years! In that time I realized I couldn’t sustain that rhythm and I didn’t want to. I could see how much they were learning all the time when I wasn’t constantly forcing structure. But I do have two things I want to know a little more about: 1) the transition through college/young adult age and what that is like, and 2) if the learning becomes more hidden as they hit the teen years, how do you turn it into transcripts and “course” information that you register with the state? What is that interaction like on an official level?

I understand this intellectually, but in actuality? I don’t know what to do with myself. my autistic, Pda, adhd son hates anything remotely looking like a formal academic lesson. So give those up. Okay. My son has never gone to formal school. We have homeschooled always. But his dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, executive dysfunction, etc., give me pause to fully step away from any kind of explicit help in those areas. And I still don't know what to do with MYSELF all day everyday... 🤪 This may not be the kind of feed back you are looking for... 😊