We had to extract our 2 youngest from a nasty situation in their
school. We started homeschooling. I was so lost! I know I had to
register with a board, but beyond that...where to go? Homeschool
has many many philosophies, I had to find out where to fit in. I
don't fit into 'unschooling' I know my kids, we'd learn nothing,
not Waldorf, not Charlotte Mason. I felt it was school at home, and
I didn't want to do that. A fellow homeschooler recommended this
book to me. I signed it out of the library. It is Classical
Education, it is based on the Trivium, 3 stages of learning,
grammar, logic and rhetoric And it suits us soooo well. I have one
in each of the two stages. They are learning the same content in
many subject. The youngest the basic facts, the older more in depth
and a little theory to answer the why.
Within a very short time, my kids were learning and learning WELL.
We are still babies in terms of homeschooling, but in the short
time the kids have been home, they have learned so much, covered
things that should have been but never were in the school system.
Well Trained Minds even has lists of quality curricula , books and
resources. A must read for homeschoolers.
They authors also have a forum. www.welltrainedmind.com lots of
fantastic support there!