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I always felt schools were never geared towards actually teaching anything of real substance besides the basics (english, math, science). Where are the economics classes? Arguably one of most important systems in life (money) is not even mentioned in most schools!!

I like that... unschooling chose you. I think that my stepson may fall under this category as well. I will have to do some digging into the topic. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I didn't fit for any of this. I'm left handed, but could read by four. My earliest memory is at eighteen months. No one knew what to do with me. I ended up alternating between the genius and remedial classes. It was better if I was just left alone in the library. I suspect that most children would flourish if left to their own devices with minimal direction. 3,4,and 5 year olds have amazing powers of observation, and problem solving. Schooling often destroys these abilities first, before moving on to flatten out everything else. I would agree with your post, except to say that all children who undergo public schooling end up at a disadvantage, but the left brained thinkers take to the indoctrination more readily.

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Excellent post.  Nice to see another Canadian doing well on Steemit. :)

Have you noticed that all skill testing questions on contests in Canada are math based?

Unschooling definitely found its way into our lives after public school,  online public school, and strictly curriculum based homeschooling left my son and I both incredibly frustrated and at a loss as to how to proceed.  Our unschooling started as deschooling...just a period of doing nothing educational in order to restore our sanity.  Then I realized, he is still learning.  Around this time I learned about Sudbury schools and the more I read the more I felt an overwhelming sense of confirmation that unschooling was what we were meant to do.  My son is now 9 and is crazy talented in all things tech and is currently writing his own video game!

I'm right brained, didn't take to reading until 5th grade, finally taught myself and math...omg 🙃

Hm that actually makes a lot of sense; I didn't do so well at school, and when asked why (because apparently I do a reasonable impression of "smart") I always said it was because I didn't have the right kind of brain for it, maybe I wasn't making stuff up after all XD

We're doing the unschooling thing too though I tend to just refer to it !schooling when I can get away with it because the labels with very precise definitions other people were engaging in annoyed me.

> If something that I am trying to teach my son lacks relevance to him, he won't put in the effort.

My boys exactly! My girl will put in the effort but not without letting me know in no uncertain terms that it's hard and boring and she hates it XD But we usually manage to work things out.

Wow, this is the kind of article I'm really interested in!  It's one of my areas of expertise although I come at it from a more intuitive, spiritual angle.  

I believe I must have been one of those children, like yours, who are "Right Brain" dominant.  
>If something that I am trying to teach my son lacks relevance to him, he won't put in the effort.
Resistance is also a way to express that something isn't working and they aren't able to learn this yet or by this method. 

This was me to a T.  All my teachers went on and on about how intelligent I was and yet my grades were really low despite putting hours and hours into a studying.  I spent two years shopping for mental and emotional disorders and found a few shoes that fit.  I made it into college on my essay and interview alone.  Luckily in my third year I had a teacher who understood that I was basically just a salt water fish in fresh water and he explained that I needed to find an interest point in everything that I studied otherwise I would always do poorly because unlike other students, I couldn't force myself to care just for the grade itself.  My grades went from C-'s to A's in my last year.

There is more going on than just the left/right brain, but it's important to look at it from this angle.  Thank you so much for your articles.  I hope to read more about how you raise your kids.  One reason I am holding off on having any is because I am trying to create the right environment first, public/private schools are not the right environment as far as I am concerned. 

I plan on writing about this experience in the future.

When I was Denmark (doing my master's and learning the language), I remember visiting the Rudolf Steiner school in Odense where I met with some of the kids and learned about this alternative system of education. Wow, I was surprised to see so many talented and creative kids who, at the early age of 12-13, had already found their passion. One of them said that he will become a piano player, another one a physicist, a third one - a painter... They have been given the opportunity to learn and focus on what interests them.
Do you have such schools in Canada?
Thank you for sharing this, Linda! :)

This is eye-wakening. We all know children learn in different ways, but I never knew there was a left-brain and right-brain learning. Since you do not follow curriculum from the school to do homeschooling do you choose what to teach your children? I hope this doesnt come off as a wrong question, i am truly interested in how it works. Therea re many things taught in school that are not useful and children shouldnt need to know. While there are things that they should be taught, but arent.  I think its wonderful you chose, or rather, unschooling chose you. We do what we feel is best for our families and that is all that matters.

## Wow, that's an eye opener!
I have never heard or tought about this before, but when I read about this it fits so well. I had issues learning back in the ages of 7-12, as well as foreign languages in high school.
Learning English was done by finding my very own way of doing it, with help of the school, but not because they knew about this I can't imagine, but it worked.

I have never had issues with learning and find courses fun to attend to today, but still hate the way school was and was very "school tired" after it and promised me to never attend schools again.

# These traits fits so well!
What can I say. The way I see and remember things are very true in regards to their list of traits.

>Right-Brained Traits:
imagination
picture-based (3D)
global
whole
association
intuitive (heart)
resistant
internal perfectionism
process
space

I never learn things by remembering them for what they are, but rather for what they look like. I have always referred to this as picture based memory. 

They are also now days always writing "how hard it is for people to imagine and put them self's in the whole about global issues, like weather, nature, over population etc.", and I have NEVER understood that. Maybe because we think different?

Thanks for this moment of revelation :)
I will continue to explore this.

What a informative post.  I see this in a couple of my grandchildren.   Once again you have hit the ball out of the park providing positive insight as to how we can change the world in a positive manner.

My 10 year old sounds EXACTLY the same as your son!  It is mind-boggling!  We too are looking at alternatives for our son as he does not "fit" in the school mould.  Although he does relatively well, its as if I see a piece of him dying every day (I know it sounds dramatic, but I really seems like it).  The only time he is happy (and his face beams) is when we are doing experiments, drawing, painting or googling about history and more science experiments.  This has definitely been an eye-opener for me.  Thanks for posting!

some more, I would like to know what the criteria and basis of this classification are.