You have probably already discovered that schooling doesn’t deliver as promised or that what is being accomplished at school is not in keeping with the goals and aspirations you have regarding your children’s education. This is likely why you have determined to keep your children home and why you are watching this vlog.

While unschooling is often advanced as simply keeping children home rather than sending them to school, it is much more than that. If all you do is replace a school environment with a school mindset at home, you haven’t really changed much other than being intimately involved with systemic failures. Put another way, repeating what you intrinsically know is not working only makes for a better bad.

To fully comprehend what unschooling is, we have to dig deep into our subconscious and understand the foundation upon which we base our decisions. It should be obvious that we have lost faith in the school system because it is most likely based on a premise that you disagree with in the first place. That is, the foundation of school-based approaches to home education is training our children to be good, productive citizens of a world in which there is nothing other than man and his accomplishments. Not that this is necessarily wrong but it reflects a short-term, temporal vision. Although not everyone will fully comprehend the importance of seeking an ultimate destination beyond this world, all practitioners of unschooling are unknowingly putting faith in a child’s inherent capacity for learning. In other words, we are all putting greater innate faith in God’s creative abilities than in man’s claim to knowing what children need and the processes by which they are programmed into serving man rather than God.

The first verse of the first chapter of the first book of the Bible is: “In the beginning, God.” Therefore, having faith in God is a very good place to start in life. It is the same with an unschooling program. Having faith in God means working with Him and using His directives to develop what He has created in order to enable His children to find their place in this temporal world. We do this with a vision for each child’s eternal destiny.

Placing your faith in God is where you should start your unschooling. Stop believing man knows what to do with God’s creation and put an end to encapsulating children in man’s temporal, God-less world. Start by desiring to set your children free from man’s expectations so they can be what God has created and what He expects.