People often ask me this question when I tell them that we’re un-schoolers. The answer isn’t so easy; we don’t follow any sort of schedule but we just try to make every day very special. Often we succeed in doing so, but there are also days that we aren’t very productive; as long as we had a nice day and enjoyed each others company I still consider a day like that to be successful though. In our living room we have a big wall hanging with a picture of Winnie the Pooh and his friends Tigger and Piglet who are playing jump rope with the words; "It doesn’t matter what we do as long as we do it together". That’s our un-schooling motto. When we just started un-schooling I had to look at it a lot to remind myself not to try too hard. Un-schooling is a very natural thing for children to do but it didn’t always come that natural to me. I often had a tendency to teach my children at first. Because I went to school myself, part of me still thought that you could only learn if you sit behind a desk and listen to a teacher. Then when we get the teachers approval, in the form of a good grade, we have learned something, right? But if that’s true, how can it be that I don’t remember anything of all the things I’ve learned this way? And how can you explain that all the situations that have really taught me and helped me grow as a person took place outside of school in real life? My father always says that there is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom, and I think he’s right about that. Knowledge is taught in conventional schools but wisdom is something that you have to find through real life experiences. As un-schoolers we live our life and we try to learn as much as we can from every situation we encounter. Everyday, our children learn about who they are, what they believe in, what they can do and what makes them happy; now that’s wisdom. The knowledge just comes to them because they are curious about the world they live in, because they love to read and because they encounter anyone and everything with an open mind and an open heart. So what do we do all day? I think Rutger explained it very well to one of his aunts when she once asked him this question; " We do exactly as we please." he said and I can only agree.