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There are hundreds of homeschooling books for Supermoms and their Superkids. Here's one for everyone else
Homeschooling: Take a Deep Breath . . . You Can Do This!
by Terrie Lynn Bittner
Many parents believe they can't homeschool because they lack some quality or skill successful homeschoolers have. But believe it or not, you don't have to be a certified teacher, a former academic whiz, or even a particularly well-organized person to homeschool well. The truth is that homeschooling can be done, and done well, by most ordinary people. In Homeschooling: Take a Deep Breath -- You Can Do This!, Terrie Lynn Bittner takes you by the hand and shows you how.
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Mrs. Bittner, a 12-year veteran homeschooler herself, breaks the job down into doable chunks and carefully explains each part, giving you the confidence you need to get it done. Included are guidelines for preparing the curriculum, teaching, testing, documenting for the authorities, getting through the really tough days, preparing your children for college graduation, and more. But Bittner offers more than instruction -- she also gives encouragement, reassuring parents who may be disorganized, insecure, less educated, or otherwise not the "ideal" homeschooling parent, and showing them how to succeed.
Publishers Weekly raves:
"'Homeschooling,' insists freelance writer and home-schooling mom Bittner, 'is parenting in its highest form.' In this down-to-earth and practical book, she guides interested parents toward confidence and success in this venture, from the preliminary stages (convincing self, spouse, and family that homeschooling is possible, dealing with its legal aspects, finding support groups, gathering supplies) through experimentation (finding the best pedagogical methods, understanding children's different learning styles) to mastery (teaching reading, composition, math -- even if, long ago, you flunked algebra -- history and science as well as 'values, religion, electives'). Her advice is sensible and direct: find out what your state requires the schools to teach at each grade level; if there's no computer at home, use the public library's. For parents worried about the 'icky stuff' in science, remember that 'older children frequently enjoy doing things their parents consider disgusting.' Bittner also suggests answers to what she calls the "stupid questions" (Will the kids be properly socialized? What about prom?) and faces up to the 'bad stuff' ('Some days you and your children will be sick of each other'). Designed to empower the novice toward home-schooling success, this book is friendly, reassuring and endlessly supportive, and, like a very well-informed neighbor, Bittner shares everything from family anecdotes to sample school-day schedules and lists of supplementary resources."
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