The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
10 best books like The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education (Grace Llewellyn): Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, Out on a Limb, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling, The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy, Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125223 |
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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...
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
| Author | Dan Millman |
| ISBN | 1932073205 |
Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the story of Dan Millman, a world champion athlete, who journeys into realms of romance and magic, light and darkness, body, mind, and spirit. Guided by a powerful old warrior named Socrates and tempted by an elusive, playful woman named Joy, Dan is led toward a final...
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
| Author | Amanda Ripley |
| ISBN | 1451654421 |
Through the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world’s top-notch public high schools, an investigative reporter explains how these systems cultivate the “smartest” kids on the planet.
America has long compared its students to top-performing...
| Author | Shirley MacLaine |
| ISBN | 0553273701 |
Her most controversial book is one you will never forget. An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal life and inner self. An intense, clandestine...
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
| Author | Alex Harris |
| ISBN | 1601421125 |
A generation stands on the brink of a "rebelution." A growing movement of young people is rebelling against the low expectations of today's culture by choosing to "do hard things" for the glory of God. And Alex and Brett Harris are leading the charge. Do Hard Things is the Harris twins' revolutionary...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0738206946 |
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...
| Author | Mary Griffith |
| ISBN | 0761512764 |
I found this in the anemic "parenting" section of my new library. It's a lean little volume, mostly of extended quotes from self-titled "unschooling" parents. The technology is excruciatingly outdated (just go to AOL Member home to join a list!) circa 1997, and even though it calls itself a "handbook"...
| Author | Naomi Aldort |
| ISBN | 1887542329 |
An insightful and eloquent guide for parents who wish to raise their children with unconditional love, and empower them to be self-reliant, expressive, caring and able to form close human connections.
About the Author:
Naomi Aldort is a parenting and family counselor, writer and public...
Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It
| Author | Henriette Anne Klauser |
| ISBN | 0684850028 |
Turn your dreams into reality by taking matters into your own hands.
In Write It Down, Make It Happen, Henriette Anne Klauser, Ph.D., explains how simply writing down your goals in life is the first step toward achieving them. Writing can even help you understand what you want. In this book, you will...
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
| Author | Alfie Kohn |
| ISBN | 0395710901 |
The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological...
| Author | Emilie Richards |
| ISBN | 0778318915 |
Love and loyalty made them sisters. Secrets could still destroy them.
As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything...
