As I mentioned in the introduction, new homeschooling parents should learn as much about homeschooling as possible by reading many different sources. Here continues my Homeschool Glossary of books parents should read.
Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School by Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver (Paperback – Aug 3, 2001)
The basic premise of this book is that learning is a natural process. Parents are encouraged to look at alternatives to traditional education for their kids. Using tools like opportunity, timing, interests, and freedom, Guerrilla Learning will give useful tips to helping your child get the most out of his or her education.
Have Fun- Learn Stuff- Grow: Homeschooling And the Curriculum of Love by David H. Albert (Hardcover – May 30, 2006)
This book is written to take the “school” out of homeschooling. This book promotes “communication, inquisitiveness, acceptance, joy, honesty, courage, and, curiously, perhaps above all, intimacy”. It says a child needs to seek and embrace their own world, and we are only to help them with that search.
Help! I’m Married to a Homeschooling Mom: Showing Dads How to Meet the Needs of Their Homeschooling Wives by Todd Wilson (Paperback – April 1, 2004)
This book is written by a man, for men. I encourage it be given to prospective, new, and even experienced homeschooling dads as a gift. While it is irreverent, and sometimes openly mocking of homeschooling moms, in the end, at the end of the joke, fathers are encouraged to help and respect their wives, who are by the way, homeschooling their children.
Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School by Rebecca Rupp (Paperback – Nov 14, 2000)
This comprehensive guide will help you design your homeschooling curriculum. This book includes the integral subjects to be covered within each grade, and standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level. It also recommends books to use as texts for every subject and gives guidelines for the importance of each topic. This book is highly recommended by other homeschoolers who have used it.
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