A review by cafeduke
How Children Learn by John C. Holt

Eye opening and fascinating. I'm glad I unschooled through 2nd grade and just let the monkeys play. It's hard to stand back and let them figure things out but it's rewarding when they succeed. This past weekend I was working in my workshop the whole day, I came out to find that my two kids, Captain Chaos (extreme hyper ADHD) and his sister (inattentive ADHD, doesn't feel like she can think too hard sometimes even though that's not at all true), built a swing all by themselves on the playground they've created with left over fencing and some rope. It's level with knots tied and held with no help from either neglectful parent and it even had a little chair added with padding (lots of packing tape plus a dozen or so cleaning cloths). They are sooo proud of it. Now the 9 year old wants to borrow the saw to cut away some fencing that's in the way of a great big swing on it and the 7 year old wants to chop down the limb it's hanging from...but that's for another lesson. It's a little late for my kids early years, but makes me think I didn't screw up by not forcing the public school at home form of home schooling on them.