17 Best parenting books like The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise

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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…

If you liked the parenting plot in The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
"… 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. Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

By: Karen Glass

4.36

Format: 224 pages,

The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The m… read more

Similar categories in Karen Glass's Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • parenting
  • teaching
  • homeschool
  • nonfiction
  • education
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3. 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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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • homeschool
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • education
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4. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

By: Sarah Mackenzie

3.81

Format: 225 pages, ebook

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Similar categories in Sarah Mackenzie's Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education

5. The Read-Aloud Handbook

By: Jim Trelease

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Timesand million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children--rev… read more

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6. For the Children's Sake

By: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

4.44

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would l… read more

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  • parenting
  • teaching
  • homeschool
  • nonfiction
  • education
"Pupils whose foundations have been deeply laid on books and things, using narration to lock their knowledge in place, and who learn not for marks and prizes but because learning is its own reward... …"

-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake

"No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country,…"

-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake

7. Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification

By: Cindy Rollins

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

It was back in the 1980's when Cindy Rollins, then a new mom in search of the best ways to teach he… read more

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8. Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling Author Rosaria Butterfield Confronts 5 Cultural Lies She Once Believed Modern culture i… read more

Similar categories in Rosaria Champagne Butterfield's Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
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9. Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with Confidence

By: Jamie Erickson

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Quiet the voices of "not good enough" and step courageously into guilt-free homeschooling Many home… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
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10. 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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Similar categories in Sarah Mackenzie's Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace 2.0 Edition book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
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11. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Mackenzie's The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • education
"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

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12. 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

Similar categories in Ainsley Arment's The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • homeschool
  • nonfiction
  • education
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13. 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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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • homeschool
  • nonfiction
  • education
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14. 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

Similar categories in Ginny Yurich's Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • education
Cover of Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World by Joe Rigney

15. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

By: Joe Rigney

4.54

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more

Similar categories in Joe Rigney's Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"

-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

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16. 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

Similar categories in Julie Bogart's The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • homeschool
  • nonfiction
  • education
"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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17. 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

Similar categories in Sally Clarkson's Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
"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

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18. 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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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
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19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
"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

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20. 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

Similar categories in Kerry McDonald's Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • education
Cover of Better Together: Strengthen Your Family, Simplify Your Homeschool, and Savor the Subjects That Matter Most by Pam Barnhill

21. Better Together: Strengthen Your Family, Simplify Your Homeschool, and Savor the Subjects That Matter Most

By: Pam Barnhill

4.35

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Bring delight back to your homeschool. Have you fallen into a routine of checking boxes? Do you … read more

Similar categories in Pam Barnhill's Better Together: Strengthen Your Family, Simplify Your Homeschool, and Savor the Subjects That Matter Most book and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education

8 Top childrens books like The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise

Transform Your Habits

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

Susan Wise Bauer , Jessie Wise

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

Sarah Mackenzie

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education

Ainsley Arment

4.32

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Modern Miss Mason

Leah Boden

4.30

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Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children

Angela J. Hanscom

4.15

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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

4.15

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Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

Sarah Mackenzie

3.81

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Durenda Wilson

4.53

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