Beyond Survival Guide to Abundant-Life Homeschooling

by Diana Waring

Book Overview

This book gives parents the preparation and working plan for a successful homeschooling experience. Beyond Survival offers practical help with the real questions of homeschooling and provides an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883002370
• ISBN13: 9781883002374
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Apologia Educational Ministries
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Down to earth

This book came for me at exactly the right time. I was feeling like a failure because we weren't highly systematic in our homeschooling. But I'm not of the unschooling persuasion. Waring did a wonderful job of just sharing her personal experiences. No pressure to try one method or another, no forceful political undertone. Just a friendly human being setting out to encourage other's to tailor their home school to their families needs, lifestyle and interest.

Thoroughly Informative and Encouraging

I purchased this book prior to spring break and pored over it from cover to cover my entire week off! I found it to be packed with tons of good information and covered just about any question I had about homeschooling. Diana Waring encouraged me to be flexible regarding curriculum and not to get discouraged during the inevitable "valleys" of home education. I am still in the homework/ investigation phase since I can't begin homeschooling our daughter until the fall. This volume served to further confirm my decision and increase my enthusiasm for the privilege and right to educate my child at home.

Wonderful, full of suggestions and helpful ways.

I have absolutely loved reading this book! I have had my fears relieved and been encouraged in every way. When the idea of homeschooling entered my life, I thought it would be an impossible task. Diana explains homeschooling with such excitement and devotion. I have come to the realization that homeschooling is not a technique, but a lifestyle! A lifestyle my family has needed and is already benefitting from. Diana gives reference to many wonderful books and points out her favorites. I highly recommend this book.

I Can do This!

Diana (and after reading this book I feel that I can call her that) has managed to share enough of her own family's homeschool journey, and that of others, to make me believe that I, too, can successfully and joyously homeschool my children. I most appreciated the recommended reading at the end of each chapter, and I loved Diana's maxims. Overall, this is an excellent book with a distinctly Christian (but not preachy) perspective.

Homeschool First Aid

Maybe it is just the end of winter blahs or the fact that homeschool has widdled down to just the bare bones or has become stifled. Whatever the problem, this book will jumpstart you with fresh ideas and insights. Curl up with a hot cup of tea and enjoy this refreshing, inspirational homeschool book. It is chucked full with "how we did its" and how to get beyond "just getting by" to really and enthusiatically enjoying the God given priviledge and responsibility of homeschooling and training our children. This book will be a resource and a blessing as it adds spirit and life to why we do what we do in homeschooling our children. And the glimpses into understanding our children's learning styles made easy will help us understand why and how each of our vastly different children learn and then how to maximize on it. Reading this book will give you such a rich appreciation for not only what you should do, but what you can do. Diana makes everything so practical, simplified and enjoyable. And you won't stop with this book, because you will love her tapes too. If it is time to regroup - start here. If this book doesn't help you air out the dusty homeschool room and bring a breath of fresh air and joyous life to your home and school, I will be greatly surprised