Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out
10 best books like Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out (Jack Petrash): 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, You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six, Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything, The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World
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...
| Author | Susan Wise Bauer |
| ISBN | 0393059278 |
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...
| 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 | Rahima Baldwin Dancy |
| ISBN | 0890879672 |
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 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...
| 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"...
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
| Author | Peter O. Gray |
| ISBN | 0465025994 |
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,...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
There is no doubt about it. Toddlers can be tricky. On one hand they can be lovely. On the other hand they can be really hard work. They'll make you laugh. And they will probably bring you to tears. Or at least a high level of frustration.
I felt the same way when my children were small and I was struggling...
| Author | Ben Hewitt |
| ISBN | 1611801699 |
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...
| Author | Sharifa Oppenheimer |
| ISBN | 0880105666 |
As we see a shift of old forms that were once the foundations of our daily lives, parents--who must prepare the next generation to meet the changing world--have more questions today than ever before. Although our cultural values and family structures may change, it is the atmosphere in the home that...
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
| Author | Kim John Payne |
| ISBN | 0345507975 |
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
| Author | Lenore Skenazy |
| ISBN | 0470471948 |
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
| Author | Tom Hodgkinson |
| ISBN | 1585428000 |
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
| Author | Pam Laricchia |
| ISBN | 9780994055 |
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
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
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...
