Horror movies and how idiotic the main characters often are
Anime
Other kinds of movies
Video games
Politics and current events
Music
SCA
Fear Factor
Comic books
Manga
Other kinds of books
Their feelings
The weather
Sports
Sibling relations
Blackberries (the fruit, not the device)
Airsoft rifles
YouTube
Other cultures (especially Japan)
Horses
You get the idea. Just about the only thing unschooled kids don't discuss much is unschooling. It's a topic of conversation for the parents, because it takes some work to wrap our schooled brains around the concepts, and we like to hear each other's stories and be reassured as to the rightness of what we're doing. For our kids, it's just LIFE.
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would that unschooling could become a forgotton realm of an untamed age we would soon appreciate a phenomenon of amazing importance: collective intellegence! Can you imagine?
Sorry! I need to refresh my last comment, it sounds more like: "would that traditional lowest common denominator schooling could become a forgotton realm of an untamed age we would soon appreciate a phenomenon of amazing importance: collective intellegence! Can you imagine?" It sounds like unschooling is a fascinating endeavor of staying aware of every moment and knowing that everything is contributing to the collective education of everything, always. Nice way of putting it - unschooling...
Hmm, I'm not sure "collective intelligence" is a goal of unschooling. Rather, it's about highly individualized, specialized, customized learning. We don't measure or attempt to increase our kids' intelligence; it's considered a given, a fluid resource they have to work with. Instead, we're helping and watching them build their own skills and talents, the tools they are using in their lives. They are definitely *collecting* information, and they acquire large quantities of information shared *collectively* by people in our society, but the individual drives unschooling, not the collective. Our kids will never be assimilated! :-)
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