What the Rest of Us Can Learn from Homeschooling: How A+ Parents Can Give Their Traditionally Schooled Kids the Academic Edge

by Linda Dobson and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

Now, traditionally schooled children can reap the same benefits as homeschooled children. This essential book for all parents and teachers offers practical ways to nurture individual growth, foster high self-esteem, and ensure academic success for every child, regardless of age, type of school, or religious background. Readers will discover what homeschoolers quickly find out-that life can be one big adventurous educational opportunity, even for kids...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761519777
• ISBN13: 9780761519775
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Touchstone and Resource

As a wanna-be homeschooler/unschooler with children in a fairly traditional school, I find myself continually returning to this book to re-center myself and to put my role in my sons' education back into the right perspective. It's very accessible and a wonderful compilation of ideas set forth by homeschooling advocates from John Holt on. The suggestions for enhancing school curriculum at home are excellent and have served our family well.

A thought provoking book that will benefit any parent!

What the Rest of Us Can Learn from Homeschooling is a book every parent can benefit from reading. It offers heartfelt advice and valuable tips from a number of highly experienced homeschooling parents who have put a lot of thought (as well as trial and error) into supporting their children in learning and growing. There are many misconceptions about how homeschooling, but this book provides clarity on the subject, offering tried and true, practical ideas on how a parent can similarly support a child who is in a school setting. It's amazing how fun and easy it is to provide a wonderfully rich educational environment for a child, but it involves putting aside preconceived ideas about how learning works--this book is a great help in that regard. A very thought provoking book!