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Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children

10 best books like Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children (Sharifa Oppenheimer): Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling, Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School, You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World, Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, All Year Round: Calendar of Celebrations, A, Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
AuthorJohn Taylor Gatto
Before reading this book I really thought I was 100% sure about my reasons to homeschool. Boy, was I wrong. I guess I was only half way there because now that I have finished this book, I realize that I never really saw the harms of the public school system 100%.

Our children are being limited every...
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
AuthorSusan Wise Bauer
ISBN0393059278
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education—the trivium—which organizes learning around the maturing capacity...
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
AuthorJohn Holt
ISBN0738206946
The classic and indispensable work on teaching children at home, fully updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and the growing new generation of homeschooling parents


Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded...
Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
AuthorRebecca Rupp
ISBN0609805851
Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through...
You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six
AuthorRahima Baldwin Dancy
ISBN0890879672
Nowadays parents are bombarded by any number of approaches about how to be with their children. YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S FIRST TEACHER introduces a new way of understanding the human being so that parents can be best equipped to serve as their own children's best teachers. Chapters include: Caring for the...
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
AuthorPeter O. Gray
ISBN0465025994
Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests—often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even outside of school children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision,...
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...
Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out
AuthorJack Petrash
ISBN0876592469
Written by a teacher with more than 25 years of experience, this book offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education. Whether you're a Waldorf parent or teacher, or you just want to learn more about these innovative educational...
All Year Round: Calendar of Celebrations, A
AuthorAnn Druitt
ISBN1869890477
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Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven
AuthorBarbara J. Patterson
ISBN0964783231
(edited)

My family is not exactly a "Waldorf Family," however, we do appreciate the Waldorf style and philosophy. (And I have long since learned that I do not have to subscribe to any philosophy wholly in order to borrow from it). But this book really brought to light a lot of what the Waldorf philosophy...
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...
Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life
AuthorPam Laricchia
Thinking about homeschooling? Curious about unschooling?

Walk with me as I share the five paradigm-changing ideas about learning and living that freed my family from the school schedule. With over ten years of experience, I have come to see how key these ideas were, and still are, to our unschooling...
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
AuthorKim John Payne
ISBN0345507975
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
AuthorLenore Skenazy
ISBN0470471948
FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot...
The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids
AuthorTom Hodgkinson
ISBN1585428000
This wise and funny book presents a revolutionary yet highly practical approach to childcare: leave them alone.

"The Idle Parent came as a huge relief to the whole family. Suddenly, it was okay to leave the kids to sort it out among themselves. Suddenly, it was okay to be responsibly lazy. This...
The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide
AuthorPam Laricchia
ISBN9780994055
You are the HERO of your story.

What story do you want to tell about being a parent? Do you want something different for your family? Are you ready to answer the call to unschooling?

When Pam’s three children left school back in 2002, she had no idea that one decision would lead her to...
Life through the Lens of Unschooling: A Living Joyfully Companion
AuthorPam Laricchia
As more and more parents challenge the assumptions of the school system, their curiosity about unschooling grows, and often one of their burning questions is:

What does day-to-day life look like for an unschooling family?

Pam Laricchia has been unschooling her three children for...
Free to Live: Create a Thriving Unschooling Home
AuthorPam Laricchia
What does unschooling look like day-to-day?

Want to help it take root and blossom in your family?

There are a number of characteristics that allow learning to flourish, and in Free to Live I discuss the four that have had the most positive impact on our unschooling lifestyle. Understanding...
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