Homeschooling: A Family's Journey

Homeschooling: A Family's Journey

Homeschooling: A Family's Journey

Homeschooling: A Family's Journey

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Overview

This intimate, eminently practical memoir of a successful homeschooled family of six children illuminates today’s most exciting choice in education, and shows how it works from cradle to college.

What is it that homeschoolers do that the public schools can’t or won’t? There are at least as many answers as there are studies. But nothing can capture the homeschooling experience in all its richness like the story of a real family that homeschools its children in middleclass America.

Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey is the perfect book for those millions of Americans who may know someone who homeschools, who may have read about it, thought about it, and wondered whether homeschooling is right for them. Sharing the concerns of committed parents everywhere, authors Gregory and Martine Millman are consistently practical, informed, caring, and no-nonsense in their approach. They pay special attention to homeschooling and college, the economics of home-learning, and how a parent can really handle a child’s full education.

Homeschooling opens a window on an exciting, important way of education—and, even more, a way of life—that can make all the difference in your family’s world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440632310
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/14/2008
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 296 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Gregory and Martine Millman homeschooled their six children (and continue to), from infancy to top colleges. Gregory Millman's books include The Vandals' Crown: How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks and The Day Traders: The Untold Story of the Extreme Investors and How They Changed Wall Street Forever. Martine Millman worked as a writer and editor in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New York City before deciding to devote much of her time to the challenging and rewarding work of a homeschooling mother.

Table of Contents


Introduction     1
Our Homeschool Choice     5
Looking out the Window as Homeschooling     31
Our Three R's: Rhetoric, Rhythm, and Randori     51
A Focus on the Person     83
Watching the Volcano: Vision, Mission, Values     108
Just Go: Travel as Homeschooling     124
Taste and See: Family Dinner as Homeschooling     153
Homeschool Groups: Building a New System     170
Accepting a College     207
Conclusion     252
Acknowledgments     261
Notes     267
Bibliography     277
Index     284
About the Authors     293

What People are Saying About This

Helen Hegener

Every so often a book comes along that raises the bar on a certain subgenre of homeschooling literature. . . . This one is the best and most thoughtful of the lot. (Helen Hegener, publisher of Home Education Magazine)

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