Both of my boys, 11 and 14, are unschooled. At the beginning I often fought with my wife over the whole concept of unschooling. She was valedictorian, full scholarship,etc. and I did fairly well in the "standard schooling" method. She's got a masters and I've got a doctorate. Our oldest was enrolled in kindergarden but we took him out after he'd been disciplined for playing "guns" with his fingers with another boy. Bang Bang. Zero tolerance. Since that time, I've been watching them grow up to be well adjusted boys learning to read via comic books and Dungeon and Dragons, learning science from Discovery and Wikipedia, and having social interactions with their friends via email and karate/swimming. Their education has been through what I call "collision learning" and we take almost every opportunity to explain why things happen. Their curiosity does most of the work. We may be atypical, but it works for us. Let's just say that they have a hard time understanding the concept of religion/miracles.