Loaf More

That's the advice (#7 out of 8) in this week's Newsweek for "New Year's resolutions that you might actually keep":

Bill Doherty, professor of family social science at the Universoty of Minnesota, wants families to hang out together on a Sunday with absolutely nothing planned. "People equate being busy with being worthwhile," he says. Better to spend unstructured time with the kids.

Sounds like unschooling to me. As a student of self-organizing systems, I believe in letting structures evolve from the bottom up rather than impose them from top-down (as in school). Loafing is definitely good in my books.