Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
By: Kerry McDonald
4.09
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes inc…
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1. Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
By: Angela J. Hanscom
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outd… read more
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2. Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education
By: Clark Aldrich
3.94
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The most powerful new ideas in education are coming from the families that have given up on schools… read more
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3. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
By: John Taylor Gatto
4.15
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more
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"… nothing important can ever really be boring."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
4. Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
By: Susan Wise Bauer
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Our K-12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn't a good fit for all--or e… read more
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5. Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
By: Kim John Payne , Lisa M. Ross
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Today's busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the p… read more
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6. The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
By: Susan Wise Bauer , Jessie Wise
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comp… read more
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7. How Children Learn
By: John C. Holt
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight int… read more
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8. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
By: Peter O. Gray
3.63
Format: 256 pages,
Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests--oft… read more
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9. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
By: Richard Louv
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourt… read more
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"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lo…"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
10. Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
By: Lenore Skenazy
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
FREE RANGE KIDShas become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy… read more
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11. Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World
By: Ben Hewitt
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, th… read more
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12. Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
By: John Taylor Gatto
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
"Gatto draws on thirty years in the classroom and many years of research as a school reformer. He p… read more
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13. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace 2.0 Edition
By: Sarah Mackenzie
4.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
By: Sarah Mackenzie
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading alou… read more
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"What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?"-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
"It is tempting to idolize certain aspects of education. We value good grades, high test scores, elite college degrees, and lucrative careers. But out obsession keeps us from remembering what educatio…"-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
"Truth rises above literal facts... stories, especially fictional ones have the power to speak to the hearts of readers in a profound and lasting way. "Story has been the vehicle for truth for as long…"-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
15. The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education
By: Ainsley Arment
4.32
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practic… read more
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16. Modern Miss Mason
By: Leah Boden
4.30
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her chil… read more
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17. Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future
By: Ginny Yurich
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
It may shock you to learn that we spend an average of 4-7 minutes outside each day--while we spend … read more
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18. The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
By: Julie Bogart
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and m… read more
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"A lifestyle of learning begins at home - with parents who create a context that is welcoming of children as they are and that offers them happy experiences, accessible tools, and parental involvement."-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
"If you send a child to therapy before you've been for yourself, the child rightly discerns that you consider the child the problem. If, however, you've used therapy in your life before asking your ch…"-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
"On some intuitive level, I knew that learning had to be more than the mastery of facts. I've experienced it as an adult. I become consumed with a subject like quilting or preparing yogurt cultures, a…"-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
19. Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need
By: Jessica Smartt
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
As parents we want to safeguard our children from the pressures and influences of the world, but al… read more
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"The last few years have shown a push for early preschool attendance. So much so that these words may actually sound like heresy. But I will say them anyways: if you do not want to send your kid to pr…"-Jessica Smartt, Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need
20. The Four-Hour School Day: How You and Your Kids Can Thrive in the Homeschool Life
By: Durenda Wilson
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Giving your child a quality education experience for a life of happiness and purpose is possible--a… read more
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21. Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
By: Steven Rinella
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The indispensable case for parenting tough, curious, and competent kids who feel at home in the out… read more
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22. Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning
By: Sally Clarkson
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
As a parent, you want to send your children into the world with healthy minds and vibrant faith. Yo… read more
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"God entrusted our children into our hands as one of the best works for which we answer to Him. He gave us the stewardship of shaping, investing in, and inspiring for His glory these little human bein…"-Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning
23. Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age
By: Julie Bogart
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in… read more
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24. The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection
By: Ainsley Arment
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Ainsley Arment has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in [this] grass-roots community." —… read more
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"The magic of this life isn't found in the hustle and bustle of constant activity but in the intentional, ordinary decisions of our days."-Ainsley Arment, The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection
"We sacrifice their childhood on the altar of preparing them for adulthood. But what if childhood was the preparation? What if having a whole childhood was the key to a healthy adulthood?"-Ainsley Arment, The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection
"If anything can be said of our homes, may it be that they are safe places for our children. Places where they can be encouraged in their gifts and comforted in their struggles. Places where they can …"-Ainsley Arment, The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection
25. The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
By: Meghan Cox Gurdon
4.30
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and chi… read more
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"Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the eye itself can be coaxed, informed, and persuaded."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
"There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
"By setting aside time every day, we can leave the pixelated wilds and rest at least for a little while in a place of unplugged, authentic human connection."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
"Wherever young people are growing up, they deserve to know what went into the making of their world. They have a right to be free to enjoy the richness that history and culture have bequeathed them."-Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
26. Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
By: Kerry McDonald
4.09
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes inc… read more
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27. Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
By: John Holt
3.94
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The classic guide to teaching children at home for a new generation of homeschooling parents In … read more
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"We didn't want our children to waste their time in the same empty rituals of education that we did: passing tests only to forget the subject matter when the grades were given; spending years with pas…"-John Holt, Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
28. Changing Our Minds: How children can take control of their own learning
By: Naomi Fisher
4.33
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Children are born full of curiosity, eager to participate in the world. They learn as they live, wi… read more
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29. Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
By: Akilah S. Richards
4.48
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while refo… read more
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30. Homeschool Gone WILD: Inspired Learning Through Living
By: Karla Marie Williams
4.18
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
How much further would many of us be if we were given the chance as children to follow our interest… read more
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31. Unschool Yourself First: A Parent's Gateway to Self-Directed Learning
By: Mark Beaumont
3.96
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
If you are considering the unschooling path for your child, or know someone who is, this is the bes… read more
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