Home schooling - Recommended Reading
by Mimi Rothschild
Home schooling, as the name suggests, is the concept of bringing school learning to the home. It is gaining popularity at a very rapid pace and attracting parents from all around the world. In order to start home schooling, books are required both for the parents as well as the child. Books filled with encouraging material, information, psychology and initiative serve a purpose in starting education at home. There are quite a few conventional methods for successful home schooling that have proven to be quite successful.
The following are some of the highly recommended and accepted books by educational experts, psychologists and experienced home schoolers. They provide basic guidelines to follow for successful home schooling as well as the study material at various levels of understanding. Home schoolers are strongly suggested to include these books in their curriculum:
1. The Home Schooling Mother: A Mom Just Like You: This book is written with the view that it is mostly the mother’s responsibility to provide encouragement and guidance to her home schooled child. In 1997, the writer, Vickie Farris, received the National Homemaker of the Year award from Eagle Forum. Through this book, light has been shed on the innovative and successful measures mothers can take to achieve the objectives of home schooling. This book helps the reader lead her child toward a successful career and helps in removing the obstacles and loopholes often found in home schooling.
2. “Home Schooling, the Right Choice” This is one of the best sellers throughout the world. This book draws inferences from a Senior Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association. Through this book, an attempt has been made to deliver the practical measures of improved home schooling, important concepts that need to be considered by various home schoolers at every age. This is a book that has largely influenced the congress in legalizing Home schooling in America.
3. “Survivor’s Guide to Home Schooling” This book is written in a very humorous way but it is able to send the right message to home schooling parents as well as students about the concept of imparting education at home. It provides the requisite encouragement and maintains an interest in the mind of reader. It provides innovative examples of home schooling, and ways to cater to the needs of children who are home schooled .
4. “Home to School”- This book reveals the growth of the concept of home schooling and cites the advantages of Home schooling over traditional ways of schooling. This book also makes a comparative analysis of the two approaches of studies and identifies the basic requirements for shifting toward home schooling.
These books, out of many, are preferred by many home schoolers throughout the world and answer most of the queries in the mind of a beginner. They can be a first step toward successful home learning.
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