April & May is a magazine started and edited by a local homeschooling friend who is my daughter's age. It is an online magazine for girls aged 11-16, run with no ads, completely free, and is welcoming submissions. If you check out the first edition, you can see my daughter's contribution on the first page. I am hugely proud of the editors, staff,  and contributing authors of the magazine. And, of course, I am proud of my daughter.

The next edition is themed mystery. A few weeks ago my daughter began reading a new murder mystery series called Curiosity Thrilled The Cat. Because the next edition of the magazine is themed mystery and she's fallen in love with a new mystery series, and because she thinks a lot of kids have never heard of the series, she has decided to write a book review for submission.

THIS is how unschooling works. This is interest driven learning. And all of this, the idea for a magazine driven to fruition by one young lady, my daughter's decision to write about current literature to help other kids find something wonderful, kids reading, writing, and educating each other through their own initiative, interest, and drive is the essence of unschooling.

People ask how it works. This is how it works. No parents made any of these kids do any of this. All of the projects contained in the larger project of the magazine are driven by the interest and initiative of the children.