Favorite Homeschooling Author?

[Ceres]

Which writer inspired you the most?:weirdsmil

[lynn271]

One of my favorite inspirational books came out too late to do me much good, but...

I just recently had my 14 yo nephew visit for a week, and after talking with him at some length I decided he was badly in need of a copy of The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn, so I provided him with one, after I secured his promise to be discreet about where he got it.

[angelmikayla]

Kristen Madden has a very informative homeschooling book called Pagan Homeschooling. It's full of online resources as well as lesson plan ideas. It was really very helpful to me.

[StephanieAine]

There is a great book written by a mother/daughter team, Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer. It's called The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. The authors have a website, which can be accessed at: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/

I'm a big believer in classical education... that's how my daughter and I approached homeschooling, and I've definitely never regretted it. My daughter found it challenging (an excellent thing considering how bored she had been in both public and private schools), but also interesting. A nice plus: she has an excellent library of books, and she is still constantly pushing herself to learn and grow simply for the love of it. And her reference materials are fantastic, LOL. (She is now 21 years old, by the way, if anyone is curious.)

If I could re-do the whole homeschooling thing, though, I ****wish**** I had known about Charlotte Mason. I never knew about her books so my daughter wasn't exposed to things like nature study in the way that Mason stresses it should be done. If I were to redo things (and if my daughter had been homeschooled *completely* - rather than only the last handful of years of her schooling), I would have used the Charlotte Mason methods first (like during her early primary years) then switched over to a mixture of Mason and the Well-Trained Mind, and eventually gone fully classical.

Just my thoughts on the subject! (I'm not a fan of 'unit study' or of 'unschooling' - in case anyone's curious. I know that doesn't really apply to the thread, but in case anyone is wondering which methods are popular and so forth, I figured I'd mention it.)

-Stephanie