Product Description

Why are so many families educating their children at home?

Is this path right for you and your family? How do you get started? How can you better teach your children about your spirituality? Can spirituality and academics ever meet?

The answers to these questions and many more can be found in the pages of this groundbreaking book. The home education movement is growing at an astounding pace. Pagans and other metaphysical parents are enthusiastically exploring this option to typical compulsory school education.

Pagan Homeschooling is the first book to address the needs of these families, and this hands-on manual is packed with resources, checklists, questionnaires, exercises, arts and crafts, experiments, spells, rituals, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #221570 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Review
"...This book is filled with so much information, it's actually quite remarkable. Between Madden's own words and the resources she provides, the readers have an abundance of information at their fingertips." -- Lakes Region Pagans

About the Author
Kristin Madden

Raised in a shamanic home, Kristin Madden is a healer and deathwalker, assuming a role handed down in her family for generations. Deciding to offer these services outside her family, Kristin has been working as a healer since 1980 and deathwalking since 1990. She has been a member of an international shamanic journeying and healing group since 1996.

Kristin has explored Eastern and Western mystic paths since 1972. She is a Druid, tutor, and tutor-mentor for the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and is on the Board of Silver Moon Health Services, a pagan sponsored non-profit health services organization based in New Mexico.

Her work has appeared on websites and in publications throughout North America and Europe, and she has been a guest on radio shows throughout North America.

Customer Reviews

A must have for any pagan with kids, homeschool or not!
This book is an incredible resource. I don't homeschool. I'm fortunate enough to have a terrific elementary school 2 miles from my home and my older kids are in a wonderful high school honors curriculum. Like I said, I'm fortunate. What I use the book for is not the pages and pages of homeschooling resources and contact info which I'm sure other people will find useful but for the tips, crafts, and ritual information I can use with my children in their daily lives and in our family life. I based my daughter's menarche ritual on material in this book and I've spent rainy weekends with my youngest, trying out different fun ideas and talking about how a particular craft relates to my beliefs. I hope to see many more books like this from the author and her publisher.

About Time!
With so many of us homeschooling, thinking about it, or just looking to add more spirituality to what our kids get in School, it is About Time for a book like this!

This book is so full of information, it will take me months to just check out all the resources let alone try all the experiments, crafts, and games. Her suggestions on learning with the Elements and Festivals were fantastic.

It has great information on learning to network and how to decide if homeschooling is for your family. I really enjoyed reading about the author's experiences and those of the other homeschoolers she polled. She certainly did her homework on this one and I'm going to definitely get more of her books.

Worth every penny
When I began to consider homeschooling as an option for my children, I was daunted by the scarsity of secular, non-Christian books out there, let alone material that catered to those who followed other paths. Nevertheless, I slogged through the most promising of books I could find (and quite a few not nearly so worthwhile.) So when I saw a book written for pagan homeschooling by an Actual Pagan Homeschooling Mom, I could not have been more ecstatic.

Having read "Pagan Homeschooling," I must say my initial joy has not flagged even slightly. This book comfortably covers a tremendous range of topics from a pagan perspective such as the initial decision to homeschool, arranging the best curriculum for your child, how to integrate spirituality into lessons, how to make homeschool a better place to social your children, and tips for teaching through the elements and festivals.

I was particularly pleased at the lack of self-rightous, proselytizing attitude that Kristin Madden took. She emphasizes that faith is a matter of choice and good parents give their child that choice, a striking dissention from so many homeschool books out there. Her suggested lessons and activities emphasized pagan values including exploring beyond the circle.