Homeschooling : The Early Years - Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- To 8- Year-Old Child

English

Series: Primas Home Learning Library Ser.

ISBN: 0761520287

EAN: 9780761520283

Category: Education / Home Schooling

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: 08/31/1999

Synopsis: Discover the Rewards of Homeschooling Your Young Child Young children are full of curiosity, imagination, and a sense of wonder. Theyre willing to try new things and possess a natural joy of discovery. Yet in a traditional school, these natural behavior traits are too often squelched. Thats why more and more parents just like you are choosing to teach their children at home during these critical years-the years that lay the foundation for developing learning skills that last a lifetime. Inside, respected homeschooling author Linda Dobson shows you how homeschooling can work for you and your young child. Youll discover how to: +Tailor homeschooling to fit your familys unique needs +Know when your child is ready to learn to read +Teach your child arithmetic without fear-even if youre math-challenged +Give your child unlimited learning on a limited budget +And much more! Brings dazzling clarity to the otherwise nerve-wracking confusion of early learning-and the adventure of becoming fully human. Highly recommended. -John Taylor Gatto,former New York State Teacher of the Year and author of Dumbing Us Down Provides a much-needed introduction to living and learning with young children. Open the book to any page and youll find inspiring anecdotes and approaches to learning that leave the reader thinking, That just makes so much sense! Highly recommended for anyone who lives, works, or plays with young children. -Helen Hegener, managing editor of Home Education Magazine An information-packed delight; I only wish it had been around when our three boys were three to eight years old. -Rebecca Rupp, author of The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook This book brings together the experience and wisdom of a great variety of homeschooling families-tied together with warm encouragement and wonderful simplification of processes that can seem so mysterious and daunting to the beginner. A very solid resource! -Lillian Jones, homeschooling activist, writer, and reviewer

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Homeschooling : The Early Years - Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- To 8- Year-Old Child

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Format: Paperback

Height: 0.78 inches

Width: 7.41 inches

Length: 9.13 inches

Weight: 21.34 oz

Pages: 352