Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
You want a different learning experience for your child and for yourself. You might be feeling hopeless and defeated, knowing that school shouldn't be this hard, but you don't know what to do. You're at a crossroads, but the homeschool route looks daunting. You don't feel like you have any of the tools, skills, or experience to become "the teacher."
We're here to tell you, yes, you can. And, you already have everything your child needs to thrive at home.
There is no homeschool cookie cutter. Instead, this book will show you how to identify learning opportunities in everything you do, how to celebrate your child's differences, and how to give yourself and your kids credit for all the things they're already doing. Learning can feel as natural and celebratory as your child's first step, and it can look the way you and your family look.
As a homeschooling parent, you can let go of traditional measures of success and instead measure learning by joy, resilience, taking initiative, compassion, self-regulation, and critical thinking. Live in the moment of joyful learning with your kids. After all, it's these hard-to-measure skills and habits that create the hard-to-measure, yet incredibly important, fulfilling life.
Synopsis
Children deserve more than the systems we're currently using to educate them. Hardworking teachers, diligent administrators, and devoted parents are trying their best in an outdated system that isn't meeting our children's complex needs.
Instead, imagine a different way to learn.
In this book, Angela and Maren pair their years of teaching in a variety of different schools with their years of homeschooling their combined seven children. As they know first-hand, any parent, child, or family can thrive as they unlearn old ways, lean into their own strengths, and celebrate unconventional wins.
This book will give you the blueprint to let go of traditional measures of success and instead measure learning by curiosity, joy, interest, self-regulation, and critical thinking. It's for traditional school families who are learning to balance outer expectations with their own needs with a different way of learning. It is for homeschool families who are looking for a more inclusive, supportive, and authentic approach.