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Books : Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of HomeschoolingIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $18.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.54 You Save: $5.41 (29%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 371 EAN: 9780738206943 ISBN: 0738206946 Label: Da Capo Press Manufacturer: Da Capo Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2003-04 Publisher: Da Capo Press Release Date: April 15, 2003 Studio: Da Capo Press Sales Rank: 28909 Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The classic work on teaching children at home, updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and a 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 edition of the book that helped launch the whole movement, Pat Farenga has distilled John Holt's timeless understanding of the ways children come to understand the world and added up-to-the-moment practical advice. Rather than proposing that parents turn their homes into miniature schools, Holt and Farenga demonstrate how ordinary parents can help children grow as social, active learners. Chapters on living with children, "serious play," children and work, and learning difficulties will be of interest to all parents, whether homeschooling or not, as well as to teachers. This new edition is supplemented with legal advice as well as a guide to cooperating with schools and facing the common objections to homeschooling. Teach Your Own not only has all the vital information necessary to be the definitive reference for parents teaching their own children, it also conveys John Holt's wise and passionate belief in every child's ability to learn from the world that has made his wonderful books into enduring classics. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - very inspiringI love this book. I found it very inspiring and empowering. Eases the burden of homeschooling and gives tools to a better education for your child. I highly recommend this book. Rating: - CAUTION - WILL CHANGE YOUR FAMILY'S LIFEThis single book completely transformed our family's plan for educating our child. After 3 years of perfectly normal, traditional (private and public) schooling, the light bulb went off and we are now embarking on the incredible journey of homeschooling. John Holt speaks such truth, and reminds us that all human beings are born naturally curious, wanting and able to learn. Imagine the potential of our world if each child spent 11,000 hours out in the real world, hungrily soaking up all that life ... Read More Rating: - crapy amazon serviceHow can I review this book if it's been over a month and I haven't even received it yet?!!! Rating: - The master of modern homeschoolingDon't read my review. Buy the book and read it instead. If you only ever puchase one book on home education, then let it be this one. John Holt is simply the best. Rating: - How People LearnDo you remember what they taught you at school? Me neither. I learned to read very early on, mostly at home, and I still remember some math, but only because I balance my checkbook and know when I'm getting correct change at the market. All those years, isolated from the real world in the artificial environment of school, sitting at a desk all day with 30 of my same age peers, how was I to learn about what an actual life in the world is like, or about what I wanted to do with mine? I remember learning ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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