Re: Unschooling newbie alert!
My advice is don't try to get ahead of yourself. I personally found that thinking of myself as 'unschooling' worked great for preschoolers/kindergarten ages, and we slowly evolved into using more assigned curriculum as my kids got older, but we're still pretty relaxed.
Don't stress about college when you've got 2-yr-old. Don't try to start schooling when you've got a 2-yr-old either. Just enjoy them, enjoy answering questions, exploring things, watching them discover things. As they get closer to school-age (by which I mean 5-6), evaluate how you'd like to structure their early elementary years. As they move through those, look at the later elementary years. For us, I'm doing things differently for my 4th grader than I would have expected 5 years ago. But that's okay--I can see what he needs/is ready for at this age now; I couldn't have predicted it when he was 5.
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Rachel, mom to ds (14) and dd (almost 12) and dd2 (3!)
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