unschooling is two basic things:
a way of learning
and
a way of parenting, sometimes referred to as radical unschooling.

it falls under homeschooling, but it's not homeschooling at all.
it's understanding that learning happens everywhere, all the time,
that all ways of learning are valuable (video games, computer, movies, television, art, play, reading, etc...), and that learning does not have to be something confined to a *school* or from a textbook.

the parenting part is recognizing your children as partners, bascially.
viewing them as whole people,
not controlling or coercing them,
respecting them and their wishes,
understanding that you MAY be needed as a guide and that may not be as often as YOU think you're needed.
it's joyful living, really.
principles instead of rules
seeing what is and addressing it and being open to it instead of discipline,
stuff like that.
freedom but not freedom without license.
it's being part of a partnership, in the true sense of that.
a partnership in love.
sounds crazy probably, but really
it's pretty fundamental.