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These are the one that will never go out of style.
Excellent choices for the new homeschooler with 1001
questions.
The Complete Guide to Getting Started in
Homeschooling by Mary Pride.
Comprehensive guide from a Christian perspective on
how to organize without overdoing, prepare for
tests, and teach to kids with special needs.
The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson. This book answers a lot of those first-year how-to's, along with learning styles, learning readiness, and those common Homeschooling Myths.
Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School by Grace Llewellyn. How children learn better, whether they're in public, private or home school.
Homeschooling for Excellence by David and Micki Colfax.
Role models for nearly two generations of homeschoolers, including yours truly. The Colfaxes homeschooled their four sons while clearing off a mountaintop. Three of the kids were accepted into Harvard. (The first son's acceptance made national headlines.)
Considered the best of the best "where do I start" books. Several families explain what their days really look like.
In Their Own Way and
Seven Kinds of Smart by Thomas Armstrong.
Is your child smart, but in a different way? Here's how to determine their learning strengths and weaknesses, and how you can teach to them without bending yourself into a pretzel.
Learning All the Time and
Teach Your Own by John Holt. Besides my two kids, here are the two reasons I began homeschooling. John's insight into how children learn (and fail) opened my eyes to what real learning's all about.
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn.This one is the reason I continued homeschooling when mine hit those I-have-the-plague and would-you-like-some-cheese-with-that-whine years. Considered THE Book for teens and pre-teens who are homeschooling or just about to start.
The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith. Here's The Book to get if you're wondering 'What's Unschooling'? (How do kids learn if we don't make them 'do school'? What do they DO all day? They don't get into college . . . do they?)
Magazines
Sometimes quarterly, sometimes monthly, but always a great source of ideas, advice and inspiration.
The notion that if a child repeats a meaningless statement of process enough times it will become meaningful, is as absurd as the notion that if a parrot imitates human speech long enough, it will know what it is talking about.
- John Holt, author of How Children Fail
How Children Learn, Learning All The Time
and Teach Your Own