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The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
by Mary Griffith
from Three Rivers Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• unschooling
  This book really opened my eyes to the failing schooling system in this country. My children both 9 and 10 struggle with reading and have been all their life. It is so hard as a parent to watch your children suffer and struggle so much. Hopefully what I am learning about unschooling will help me with them at home. I still have to keep them in the public school system because their father is the principal at their school. I will keep trying to gather as much information as I possible can to make reading more... more info

• every parent should have this book!
  This book will lift the burden of homeschooling off of you! Great read, and very de-stressing! Every parent should have this book, even if you don't homeschool.

• This book helped us to have the courage to Unschool!
  Since our daughters were babies;I knew I wanted to homeschool.
  I have used an unschooling approach until the age of 5 when I had to make a real choice(due to my state regulations). This book helped me find myself as an unschooler, and have the courage to teach and learn with my kids our own way. The resource sections are wonderful as well!

• Useful For Any Homeschoolers Interested in Experiential Learning
  I'm not an "unschooler" but I was intrigued by the book's subtitle. I'm a big fan of experiential learning so I thought that the book might have some useful resources for hands-on exploration. In fact, it does have a number of good ideas for the various subjects in chapters 5-9 and for that reason, I'm glad that I decided to read it.
  I noticed that a lot of what Ms. Griffith touts as benefits of "unschooling" are not specific to that particular approach but rather are benefits of homeschooling in... more info

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