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So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It

So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It
By Lisa Whelchel

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Confused and intimidated by the complexities of homeschooling, many sincere parents never get past the "thinking about it" stage. Now Lisa Whelchel - herself a homeschooling mother of three - introduces fifteen real families and shows how they overcome the challenges of their unique homeschooling situations. This nuts-and-bolts approach deals with common questions of time management, teaching weaknesses, and outside responsibilities, as well as children's age variations, social and sports involvement, learning disabilities, and boredom. Seeing a wide variety of successfully homeschooling families in action will give parents the confidence to make their own dream of home-based education a reality.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #286524 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-03-31
  • Released on: 2003-03-31
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 250 pages

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About the Author
Lisa Whelchel, a native Texan whose first appearance as a child star on The New Mickey Mouse Club launched her busy acting career, is best known for her role as Blair on the perennial hit TV show The Facts of Life. Now a busy homeschooling mother, speaker, and pastor's wife, she is the author of The Facts of Life and Other Lessons My Father Taught Me. Lisa and her husband, Steve Cauble, live in Los Angeles with their three children, Tucker, Haven, and Clancy.

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Homeschooling for Dummies (and Veterans)5
This book is a compilation of 15 different paradigms used by 15 different families: grandparents who homeschool, the single mom, the dad, the self-taught teenager, the RV'er family,.... Then there are those who use Sonlight, Classical Curriculum, Unit Studies, Unschooling,... I found that I had some misconceptions about a few of these, and a few were mentioned that were unknown to me.

I especially liked the chapter about homeschooling an ADHD child! I related 110% to EVERYTHING this mom had to say. This particular chapter actually reminded me to work around my son's disability, while giving him opportunities to develop strategies to use himself in the future.

As a rookie homeschooler, Lisa's book gave me some things to think about. I also highly recommend it for any veteran homeschoolers needing a change of pace. A plethora of community resource ideas and freebies are also mentioned. Best of all, you will have some GREAT answers to the ignorant questions so many non-homeschooling people ask about (socialization, real life, future college...).

So You're Thinking About Homeschooling will educate readers to the fact that the homeschooling community is as diverse as the US population itself. Anyone reading Lisa's book will laugh upon hearing people refer to the "typical" homeschooling family, because...ca, n'existe pas!

Cute, but also informative4
I borrowed this book from the library and found it very informative on different kinds of homeschooling and different ways that "families" do it (even if they're not real families). I liked that she explained, without going into excessive detail, Charlotte Mason, eclectic homeschooling, unschooling, etc. I am happy, however, that I borrowed this book and didn't pay for it... can't see myself needing to read it more than once.

Must read if you are considering homeschooling5
My husband wanted us to homeschool, he told me this when our first born was a baby. I was not into the idea. I read this book. It changed my mind. This book is responsible for me homschooling. Now my oldest is 6, it is our second year to homeschool. I am so thankful that we are doing it. I have read this book about 4 times. Its fun to read. And when I have friends who are considering homeschooling or curious about it being something they could do, I always lend them this book.

Before I ever read this, I had a certain idea or stereotype of what homeschoolers were and thought 'I don't fit into that description' after reading this, I saw that anyone can homeschool...people just like me are doing it! It doesn't matter if you have one child, three children or ten. This book discusses several different types of families, and their methods and reasons for homeschooling.
After reading it, there is a good chance you will be excited about homeschooling!