[dnsauve]

While I love the idea of homeschooling and unschooling, I can't quite figure out how people do this while still managing to pay their bills. Wouldn't this, in essence, take up a significant portion of your day, preventing you from working?

[tbrownaw]

My mom stayed home with us while Dad worked (now that we're all grown she got a new job, the sort that has a commute and is counted in GDP). I think the other homechool families in the area did the same thing.

This being HN, I suppose another option would be for one parent to run some sort of e-business that allows them to have an opposite schedule and take turns working vs being with the kids.

[knarf_navillus]

My wife is a stay-at-home mom. They still exist. =P

[tokenadult]

Good question (hence my upvote). I have been the home-educating parent, sporadically employed for money, as my children have been growing. Observing them pursue their interests has given me new career ideas, which I like better than my former career.

[pbhjpbhj]

It's an extension of how you look after infants isn't it. If you have kids then how did you look after them before they reached school age? There you go.

If you chose not to look after them then I guess your question still stands.

[bugsy]

I do it and I am able to work from home most of the time as an engineer. To do a smash up classical education job teaching your 8 yr old to speak fluent Latin will take 4 hrs a day. Then you spend 8 hrs at work while they run around wild, work on projects, or whatever. Teach them how to cook at an early age and now you have freed up even more hours.

Some freelancers will take the kids with them as they travel about the world on assignment. That's an education in itself.