Homeschooling for Dummies

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Summary: this book should not exist
Review: If you are a dummy, send your kids to school to be taught by trained teachers.

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Summary: itz 4 reel
Review: My mom uzed this buk to teesh me how to cpell. I am only 12 yeerz old, what? do you think of that.

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Summary: One of my favorite Homeschooling books!
Review: Really Good book for people new to homeschooling as well as the veterans. There's lots of resourses, and practical information. Very comprehensive, and yet very easy to read and skip around if you want!

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Summary: Dummies we will remain!
Review: This book contains significant misinformation and misrepresentations of several styles of homeschooling. If you want to learn about choices in homeschooling there are many better and far more accurate books out there including Mary Griffith's The Homeschooling Handbook and Marsha Ransom's The Complete Idiots Guide to Homeschooling. While the book has its merits, it does not represent most homeschoolers accurately.

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Summary: Thank goodness -- a book that answers questions!!!
Review: Three cheers for HOMESCHOOLING FOR DUMMIES!! Every other homeschooling book I ever picked up had an agenda -- they wanted you to do things this way or that way, and preached that no other way of teaching could possibly work at all. HOMESCHOOLING FOR DUMMIES explains the pros and cons of many different teaching methods without proclaiming that any one of them is the *only* answer. Most importantly, the author shares her experiences with things that worked and things that failed with her own kids, and how she continually reshapes her teaching approaches. It felt great to finally hear someone say "find what works for your kids and do it"!!!

Everyone either thinking about homeschooling or currently teaching at home needs a copy of this book. It's a life (and sanity) saver!!!!

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Summary: Straight forward information with no agenda
Review: We have been in homeschooling since the 70's and aside from Homeschooling For Excellence written by a couple we know and respect, this is a book I would highly recommend simply because it offers valuable information and does NOT set out to convert people to homeschooling. Even bought a copy for my local library.