Product Details
The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It's Right for Your Family

The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It's Right for Your Family
By Lisa Rivero

List Price: $14.95
Price: $10.17 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com

45 new or used available from $4.04

Average customer review:

Product Description

In this accessible and honest look at homeschooling, Lisa Rivero explores the diverse faces of homeschooled students and the ways in which it can help children with special learning needs. She corrects misconceptions through profiles of diverse families and addresses the changing and complex needs of children today. This book addresses the major questions parents are bound to have as they consider this option: socialization, curriculum, special needs arrangements, resources, and more. 

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #845925 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-01-22
  • Released on: 2008-01-22
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

Features

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A perfect book for parents looking for answers about homeschooling. We highly recommend." --Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide, authors of The Mislabeled Child

"This is a concise, easy-to-read presentation of all the challenges and concerns parents can have while deciding about The Homeschooling Option. This book will help families realize there are many more places for children to learn joyfully and effectively than either public or private schooling."--Patrick Farenga, President of Holt Associates, and co-author of Teach Your Own, The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

Praise for Creative Home Schooling: "This book will at once reassure parents that they are not alone in this voyage."--David Albert, columnist, Home Education Magazine "A solid, accessible, 'user friendly' guide packed with advice, information, ideas, and insights on homeschooling especially gifted children."--Midwest Book Review 

About the Author

Lisa Rivero is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Parenting for High Potential, Understanding Gifted Children, The Roeper Review, and The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Her book Creative Home Schooling won the 2003 Glyph Best Education Book Award and was named Best HomeSchool Product of the Year. She lives in Milwaukee.

Customer Reviews

Excellent book!!!5
This book was so helpful in laying out the why tos and why not tos. I had been sitting on the homeschool decision for months. Now that we are fast approaching fall and kindergarten, I am so happy to have found this book! It navigated me through many of the questions I had and really helped me make my homeschooling decision. Although a homeschooler herself, Rivero is fairly objective and tells it like it is. She also references many books and websites that are helpful. I recommend this book to anyone who is making the homeschooling decision as well as anyone who wants a better idea of why someone would choose to homeschool.

A wonderful resource!5
I am considering homeschooling my child(ren), after 2 years in public school, and I chose this homeschooling book first, simply because it was the first one available through my local library.

I found this to be a fantastic resource for many of the questions I have about making homeschooling work successfully for my family. The author also discussed advantages that I hadn't even considered, such as being able to be with your children more often, and becoming a more cohesive family.

This is a great book with a lot of ideas and resources, and, as another reviewer mentioned, a good choice to pass along to other family members.

Great intro to homeschooling5
I am seriously considering homeschooling my son and this book was helpful in revealing some of the reasons for homeschooling and methods used. I am having my extended family read it so that they can better understand my motivations and perrhaps be supportive of the choice.