Fundamentals of Homeschooling: Notes on Successful Family Living
Publisher:
Nettle Patch Press
Author:
Ann Lahrson-Fisher
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By: Beverly Krueger
When selecting a book to learn more about homeschooling, it makes sense to choose one written by an expert. You don’t become a homeschool expert by reading about homeschooling or looking at it from the outside. Ann Larhson-Fisher is a homeschool expert because she has years of experience personally homeschooling. She’s used that experience to help other homeschoolers by founding several state and local homeschooling organizations in Oregon and speaking at homeschool workshops. Her answers to the big question of how do you homeschool successfully have come through years of trying to put the pieces together herself. Ultimately, she says, it comes down to one simple thing, “living a satisfying learning lifestyle”.
That’s the Ah Ha! of the book, and it’s right there on page one. The remainder of the book breaks down what Larhson-Fisher calls the habits or themes of successful family living: play, conversation, togetherness, growing up and exploration. In each section of the book the first chapter develops and discusses the importance of a particular habit. Lahrson-Fisher then spends many more chapters with the specifics of how that habit can actually be worked out in a successful family.
This book is chock full of possibilities, things to do, avenues to explore and practical suggestions for overcoming difficulties, all of which are easy to implement because they are based not on the latest education theory but on real life family living. The particulars of how your family creates a satisfying learning lifestyle will be different from your neighbor’s, but at heart those who are successful do cultivate these basic family habits. If the thought of separating academics away from the rest of your family life seems disjointed to you, you’ll find this book’s approach to creating a learning lifestyle as an integral part of your family life very satisfying.
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