19 best-selling parenting books like Unschool Yourself First: A Parent's Gateway to Self-Directed Learning by Mark Beaumont

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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…

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1. 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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  • education
  • parenting
"… 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

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2. The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

By: Donalyn Miller

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • education
  • parenting
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3. Virgin River (Virgin River, #1)

By: Robyn Carr

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River, population six hundred. Make a difference agai… read more

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4. The Explosive Child

By: Ross W. Greene

3.82

Format: 254 pages,

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  • education
  • parenting
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5. 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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  • education
  • parenting
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6. Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling

By: John C. Holt , Pat Farenga

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In t… read more

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  • education
  • parenting
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7. Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

By: Jen Wilkin

4.51

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Many Christian women find great encouragement and joy in and through women's Bible studies. However… read more

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"It matters that women teach women, and that they do so with excellence."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

"We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

"Shaping someone's understanding of the things of God is a huge responsiblity, and it is not to be taken lightly."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

"The Word is living and active. It will conform you by dividing you. And in the dividing, miracle of miracles, it will render you whole."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

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. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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10. 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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11. The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Perfect Paperback

Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake t… read more

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"Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?"

-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

"You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true."

-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

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12. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms

By: Justin Whitmel Earley

4.61

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more

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  • parenting
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13. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

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  • parenting
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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14. Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality

By: Emily Morrow

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Find your Inner Crunchy without becoming that person with this helpful guide from social media star… read more

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  • parenting
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15. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

By: Emily Nagoski

3.95

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a … read more

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"No one is “complete"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Dread is anxiety on steroids."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"So how much rest is “adequate"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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16. 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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  • education
  • parenting
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17. 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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  • education
  • parenting
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18. 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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  • education
  • parenting
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19. 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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  • education
  • parenting
"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

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20. Lovely Violent Things (Hollow's Row, #2)

By: Trisha Wolfe

4.12

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s the devil. And she’s his wicked game. Book two in the Hollow's Row series. The night I g… read more

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"Overman. A ridiculous translation."

-Trisha Wolfe, Lovely Violent Things (Hollow's Row, #2)

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21. In the Flo: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life

By: Alisa Vitti

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of WomanCode presents a biohacking program for women, teaching them how to u… read more

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  • education
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22. Lovely Bad Things (Hollow's Row, #1)

By: Trisha Wolfe

3.74

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

He's the devil. And she's his wicked game. Halen: They say eyes are the windows to the soul—but… read more

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"To be revered, first, you go stark raving mad, then you exit this world in a blaze."

-Trisha Wolfe, Lovely Bad Things (Hollow's Row, #1)

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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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  • education
  • parenting
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24. 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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  • education
  • parenting
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25. 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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  • education
  • parenting
"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

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26. Lovely Wicked Things (Hollow's Row, #3)

By: Trisha Wolfe

4.23

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Halen: I’ve created a monster. When past and present collide, the fallout feels like the death of… read more

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27. 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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  • education
  • parenting
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28. 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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  • education
  • parenting
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29. More Than Enough: Grow Your Confidence, Banish Burn-Out and Love Your Homeschool Life

By: Kara Stephenson Anderson

4.37

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Homeschooling isn't always easy. There are hiccups and bumps, and there will be plenty of times tha… read more

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  • education
  • parenting
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30. TEENS Unleashed: Unschooling Young Adults as They Reach for Their Dreams

By: Karla Williams

4.33

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Many look at unschooling as a viable option for their younger children. What about high school? Can… 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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  • parenting

17 Best education books like Unschool Yourself First: A Parent's Gateway to Self-Directed Learning by Mark Beaumont

Transform Your Habits

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Donalyn Miller

4.39

The Explosive Child

Ross W. Greene

3.82

Transform Your Habits

How Children Learn

John C. Holt

4.25

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18 Top audiobook books like Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski

Transform Your Habits

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Brené Brown

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Transform Your Habits

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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