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…
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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. The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
By: Mary Griffith
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
To Unschoolers, Learning Is As Natural As Breathing Did you know that a growing percentage of home … 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. 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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5. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
By: Gabor Maté , Gordon Neufeld
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling a… read more
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6. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Yo… read more
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7. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele F… read more
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8. Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
By: Alfie Kohn
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" -- and… read more
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9. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
By: Paul Tough
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and succe… read more
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10. 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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11. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
By: Alfie Kohn
3.82
Format: None pages,
The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summ… read more
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12. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace
By: Sarah Mackenzie
3.81
Format: 225 pages, ebook
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13. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
By: Ken Robinson , Lou Aronica
2.75
Format: None pages,
Ante un futuro cada vez mas incierto, este libro nos motiva a buscar lo mejor de nosotros mismos, l… read more
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14. 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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15. The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
By: Shefali Tsabary
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
It's a tremendous privilege to raise children, though for a quite different reason than most of us … read more
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16. 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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17. 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
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"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
18. The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
By: Shefali Tsabary
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." --Oprah Winfrey New from the New York … read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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
22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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
26. 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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27. 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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28. 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
29. 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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30. 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
31. 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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