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How to Be a Person
Life Skills Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo) Life Skills Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo)

How to Be a Person

Discover why 'How to Be a Person' is a must-have in your homeschool curriculum for teaching practical life skills with our in-depth review.

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An Adult Child’s Guide to What’s ‘Normal’
Life Skills, Parenting Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo) Life Skills, Parenting Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo)

An Adult Child’s Guide to What’s ‘Normal’

How do you teach your child life skills if you feel like you don’t have them yourself? Homeschooling parents can learn essential life skills from "An Adult Child's Guide to What's 'Normal'." This acclaimed book helps overcome difficult upbringings, ensuring you model healthy behavior for your children.

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Mathematical Mindsets
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Mathematical Mindsets

Mathematical Mindsets is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by Jo Boaler. The Mathematical Mindsets model is superstar math educator Jo Boaler's set of books and curricula designed to help kids of all ages understand mathematical concepts while reducing math anxiety Jo Boaler is an award winning Stanford Graduate School of Education professor who has devoted her life to supporting math education and reducing math anxiety in women and girls.

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Brave Learner
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Brave Learner

Brave Learner is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by Julie Bogart. The Brave Learner is a practical book that shows parents how to foster learning that both develops skill and creates joy. After homeschooling her own 5 children Julie Bogart went on to create online resources for homeschool such as her award winning writing program Brave Writer, and Poetry Tea Time. She is known as a voice of reason and compassion for home educators.

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Teach Your Own: John Holt
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Teach Your Own: John Holt

Teach Your Own: John Holt is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by John Holt. John Holt's classic book "Teach Your Own" is perfect for parents who wish to learn more about best practices for homeschooling, the philosophy behind it, and its contrast with public education. Holt was the father of the Unschooling philosophy, an important movement in the history of homeschooling, focusing on learning through natural experiences that children themselves seek to explore.

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Free to Learn
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Free to Learn

Free to Learn is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by Peter Gray. Psychologist Peter Gray demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient, unlike traditional schooling. Peter Gray is a development psychologist and believes that there are more effective to encourage childhood education without the constraints of modern-day schooling.

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Dumbing us Down
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Dumbing us Down

Dumbing us Down is one of our top choices for Best books to get started . It was created by John Taylor Gatto. This book is for teachers and parents - learn how the watered down traditional school system is diminishing our educational outputs and how we can instead become self-directed lifetime-learners. The author was a teacher in New York for 30 years before setting out to unveil the truths of broken system of mandatory schooling, and instead wants parents to embrace learning with self-direction.

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Unschooled: Great overview of unschooling
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Unschooled: Great overview of unschooling

Unschooled is one of our top choices for Best books to get started. It was created by Kerry McDonald. Unschooled by Kerry McDonald provides an excellent overview of the unschooling, or self-directed education, movement, illustrating the need to move past the public school model, and providing pointers for how to get started with your own children. Kerry McDonald has an M.Ed. degree in education policy from Harvard University and is a Senior Education Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. She writes about education at Whole Family Learning (http://www.wholefamilylearning.com).

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Your Natural Learner: Nature Based Experiential Learning
Calvin Tran Calvin Tran

Your Natural Learner: Nature Based Experiential Learning

Your Natural Learner is one of our top choices for Nature-based curriculum. Your Natural Learner was created by Leah McDermott. A wide range of various nature-based curriculum that contains engaging daily activities, which educates curious children through first-hand experiences of science experience, math explorations, and literature activities.

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Books about Unschooling for Independence Day
Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo) Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo)

Books about Unschooling for Independence Day

Can kids teach themselves? Or do they need guidance from an experienced teacher? Or is it a balance of both? The radical philosophy of unschooling embraces children’s rights, insists that learning happens as naturally as breathing and that when children are left to their own devices, there’s no limit to how far their learning can go.10 great books on self-directed learning.

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Book: Free to Learn
Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo) Manisha Snoyer (CEO and co-founder of Modulo)

Book: Free to Learn

In this groundbreaking book, developmental psychologist Peter Gray explains why Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life.

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