The last 2 weeks have been a full-fledged divergence down the rabbit-hole of emergent curriculum. I was inspired by Marc Battles Machines video in SECD (Battle in Jamieson et al n.d.). I began to think where I had observed similar ideas in the past and how my reactions to them have changed. Over a decade ago when my first child reached school age, we made the decision to homeschool him for kindergarten. I began planning and researching. We enrolled him in a support school so that we would have the ability to consult with a teacher and have him assessed. It was very important to my husband that he not fall behind as a result of learning at home. I quizzed other homeschool parents on their choice of curriculum and was particularly interested in a Doctor’s family whose daughters seemed really intelligent but chose the method of unschooling. ‘What in the world is unschooling!? ’ I thought. Someone inaccurately summed it up as, ‘doing no school.’ I read up on unschooling and poured ...