Home Sweet Homeschool: A Survivor's Guide to Giving Your Kids a Quality Education

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Summary: A devout Christian guide
Review: Sue Maakestad draws upon her twenty-four years of homeschooling her eight children in writing Home Sweet Homeschool: A Survivor's Guide To Giving Your Kids A Quality Education. A devout Christian guide that emphasizes the importance of faith in God, Home Sweet Homeschool stresses the positive aspects of homeschooling as a means to protect children when public schools suffer from various inadequacies and even such evils as gangs or drugs. Practical advice, guidelines for levels of responsibility in education and in helping around the house that are suitable for children of various ages, suggestions for field trips, ways to maintain balance and discipline, how to ensure a homeschooled child is prepared to pursue higher education and much more fill this eminently readible and useful resource.



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Summary: A goldmine for the homeschool parent!
Review: Sue Maakestad has excelled herself. This book is destined to be a classic, a staple on the shelf of every serious homeschooling family!

What strikes me most is that the book is not your garden variety homeschool manual--you know--tips on choosing the best curricula, a few stories about what worked and what didn't, how to include all the right subjects and hook up with the right agencies, how to get your homeschooler a high school diploma--blah, blah, blaaahhh. There are dozens of those books already on the market.

This book is simply saying, "You can do it!" and giving God the glory from stem to stern. It is packed with advice, encouragement, and scriptural power pills. Nothing could bring more glory to God for Sue's 24 years in the homeschooling trenches than this book does, and nothing in print can provide a better shot in the arm for the undecided, curious, worn-out, frustrated, or even the veteran homeschool family.

Buy it! You won't be sorry!!