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10 best books like A Little Way of Homeschooling (Suzie Andres): Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family, The Original Homeschooling Series, For the Children's Sake, Charlotte Mason Companion, Learning All The Time, Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything, Discipline That Lasts a Lifetime: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Kids: Dr. Ray Answers Your Frequently Asked Questions, The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves

Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family
AuthorVeronica Chater
ISBN0393066037
It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement—an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol,...
The Original Homeschooling Series
AuthorCharlotte M. Mason
ISBN1889209007
This is the complete works of the turn-of-the-century British educator, Charlotte Mason. The six-volume set includes over 2,400 pages of the finest material ever written on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as the pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte...
For the Children's Sake
AuthorSusan Schaeffer Macaulay
Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would like education to be a joyous adventure and celebration of life, as well as a solid preparation for living. Sadly, most education today falls far short of this goal.

But as Susan Schaeffer Macaulay...
Charlotte Mason Companion
AuthorKaren Andreola
ISBN1889209023
This is a thorough chapter-by-chapter overview of the inspiring teaching principles of Christian educator Charlotte Mason from the original Charlotte Mason authority, speaker, and columnist, Karen Andreola. With warmth and humor, Karen provides a wealth of insight, practical advice, and narratives,...
Learning All The Time
AuthorJohn Holt
ISBN0201550911
How small children begin to read, write, count, and investigate the world, without being taught


The essence of John Holt's insight into learning and small children is captured in Learning All The Time. This delightful book by the influential author of How Children Fail and How Children...
Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything
AuthorLaura Grace Weldon
Free Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education...
Discipline That Lasts a Lifetime: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Kids: Dr. Ray Answers Your Frequently Asked Questions
AuthorRay Guarendi
ISBN1569553688
Dr. Guarendi's humoristic inserts can get to be irritating after a while. Some people might enjoy his random quips, "Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. I'm sorry. I never used to talk like that it. It all started when I became a psychologist" (pg. 124). Or, as seen in how he ends his response to a parent's questions...
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
AuthorRachel Gathercole
ISBN1600651070
Makes the point that home schooled children are often "better" socialized than their conventionally schooled counterparts, with less problem behaviors, equal levels of self-esteem (at least), and higher maturity levels. She points out that most people who ask, "But what about socialization"...
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education
AuthorJames S. Taylor
ISBN0791435865
This book rediscovers a traditional mode of knowledge that remains viable today. Contrasted to the academic and cultural fads often based on the scientific methodology of the Cartesian legacy, or any number of trendy experiments in education, Poetic Knowledge returns to the freshness and importance...
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves
AuthorAlison McKee
ISBN0965780627
A compelling story about one family's journey into the unknown territory of homeschooling, told with skill by Alison McKee, a gifted teacher with a wide experience in traditional education and a special sensitivity to the individual needs of children. Trusting her own children to "show me the way"...
The Day I Became an Autodidact
AuthorKendall Hailey
ISBN0440550130
This was an incredibly interesting book that I enjoyed far more than I initially thought I would. The premise is simple, teenager Kendall Hailey is highly dissatisfied about being told what to learn so decides to take control of her own education. What follows is a scattered journal illustrating the...
Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World
AuthorBen Hewitt
ISBN1611801699
When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, the landscape easily allowed them to envision the self-sustaining family farm they were eager to start. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their...
The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks With Charlotte Mason
AuthorLaurie Bestvater
ISBN0615834108
"We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life." Charlotte Mason ~~~~~~~ "Composition books and blank journals are readily available at every big box and corner store, available so inexpensively as to be common...
Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life
AuthorRue Kream
The refreshing new book Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooling Life is written with engaging warmth, exquisite clarity, and a profound insight into parent-child relationships. The author advocates unwavering trust and respect toward children, and the tone of the book shows full respect for the...
The Unschooling Unmanual
AuthorNanda Van Gestel
ISBN0968575455
Amazing! It's short, but really got me thinking about the 'educational system', and what it means to learn. There are a lot of references to John Holt by the various writers that contributed, and I am inspired by them to go out and get books about children and learning that he wrote.

Some passages...
Real Learning: Education In The Heart Of The Home
AuthorElizabeth Foss
ISBN0971889511
This book is not about "school at home"--it is about something better. It is about Real Learning. Homeschooling pioneer Charlotte Mason wrote with great wisdom about providing young minds with a living books education. She urged teachers to present great ideas and stand back, allowing students to...
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education
AuthorLaura M. Berquist
ISBN0898706602
Home educator Laura Berquist presents a modern curriculum based on the time-tested philosophy of the classical Trivium—grammar, logic and rhetoric. She has given homeschoolers a valuable tool for putting together a "liberal arts" curriculum that feeds the soul, as well as the intellect. Her...
Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling
AuthorSandra Dodd
ISBN9780557181
How does unschooling work? There are many ways families can optimize natural learning in their lives, and find joy and laughter along with it. New unschoolers have had the same questions over the years, and experienced unschoolers go through some similar stages of nervous doubts. This book addresses...
The Little Oratory: A Beginner's Guide to Praying in the Home
AuthorDavid Clayton
ISBN1622821769
Keeping a faithful prayer life with your family isn't easy. From herding distracted children to managing the seemingly endless litany of prayers and devotions, our spiritual life all too often feels frantic and burdensome.
This isn't the way it should be. Our prayer life, our family life, and...
A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms: 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul
AuthorLisa M. Hendey
ISBN1594712735
Lisa M. Hendey, founder of the award-winning CatholicMom.com and bestselling author of The Handbook for Catholic Moms and The Grace of Yes shares her passion for the saints by introducing fifty-two holy companions as guides for the amazing vocation of Catholic motherhood.

Guided by the...
A Mothers Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul
AuthorHolly Pierlot
ISBN1928832415

First reading October 2014:
This was an interesting book and is a valuable resource. I think that this book is built on solid thinking. Much of her personality is infused into it and that gives it both its character and its weaknesses. I respect that Holly has an interesting history and a complicated...
Small Steps for Catholic Moms: Think. Pray. Act. Every Day.
AuthorDanielle Bean
ISBN1933271388
If anyone knows the challenges of being a Catholic mom today, it's Faith and Family editor Danielle Bean and her coauthor Elizabeth Foss. Now they've put their combined experience into a 365 devotional designed to encourage busy women to take small steps every day to grow their faith and put it into practice....
Better Late Than Early: A New Approach to Your Child's Education
AuthorRaymond S. Moore
ISBN0883490498
"Moore brings a wealth of evidence from a wide variety of sources to indicate that early schooling, although promoting (perhaps) earlier cognitive organization, introduces a host of fateful "iatrogenic"- disturbances. Our knowledge of maturation, development, developmental stages, and critical...
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