Growing Without Schooling (GWS) is a record of the grassroots homeschooling movement. Its timeless content about how parents and children live and learn together at home and in their communities will inform anyone seeking ideas about how homeschooling can work for their family. Growing Without Schooling V.5 covers the years 1986 and 1987, a time of major change for GWS as we recovered from the death of GWS's founder, John Holt. Parents and children write into GWS to share their joys and difficulties about learning at home and in their communities, cooperative ways to involve children in housework, resources and recommendations for learning materials that suit self-directed learning, and so much more! GWS is also a record of school and society during the late twentieth century. Volume 5 has letters and articles about the emergence of school-related illnesses like ADHD and school phobia; the increase in paranoia about letting children play outdoors without constant adult supervision; the inroads to schooling made by computers and the internet; the never-ending demand for more instruction time at the expense of playtime, and so much more. GWS is a unique publication about education from the perspective of self-directed learners and their teachers and supporters. After working to change schools from within—testifying before Congress and addressing audiences around the world about how to make schools better places for children—John Holt founded Growing Without Schooling (GWS) magazine. GWS was published from 1977 to 2001 and is the first magazine devoted to homeschooling and self-directed education. Each issue is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful advice, resource recommendations, and all sorts of legal, pedagogical, and parenting ideas from people who pioneered what we now call homeschooling. John Holt (1923—1985) is the author of How Children Learn and How Children Fail (which have been in print for over 50 years, and together have sold over a million and a half copies) and eight other books about children and learning. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Once a leading figure in school reform, John Holt became increasingly interested in how children learn outside of school. The magazine he founded, Growing Without Schooling, reflects his education philosophy, which he called unschooling.