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Handout for Starting to Homeschooling with Pat Farenga, Webinar 4 Handout for Starting to Homeschooling with Pat Farenga, Webinar 4 An inspiring book about living with children throughout our lives that has influenced many families: The Continuum Concept: Allowing human nature to work successfully by Jean Liedloff. ​ ​ Varieties of Homeschooling and Unschooling Experience: Choosing Home: 20 Mothers Celebrate Staying Home, Raising Children, and Changing the World by Rachel ​ Chaney and Kerri McDonald The Art of Self­Directed Learning: 23 Tips for Giving Yourself and Unconventional Education by Blake Boles ​ Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World by Ben Hewitt ​ Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self­Discovery by David Albert ​ Dismantling the Inner School: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Abundance by David Albert ​ Self­Directed Learning: Documentation and Life Stories by Wes Beach ​ Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life by Pam Laricchia ​ The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling by Quinn Cummings. ​ Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything by Laura Grace Weldon. ​ The Willed Curriculum, Unschooling, and Self­Direction by Dr. Carlo Ricci ​ Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education by Bea Ekwa Ekoko and Dr. Carlo Ricci. ​ Learning All the Time by John Holt ​ Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt and Pat Farenga Consulting ​ First­hand Accounts of Keeping Special Needs Children at Home The Right Side of Normal by Cindy Gaddis ​ Homeschooling the Child with Asperger Syndrome: Real Help for Parents Anywhere and on Any Budget by ​ Lisa Pyles. Blogs/Websites that discuss the daily ins and outs of homeschooling and unschooling African­American Unschoolers "African­American Unschooling is THE Internet resource for African­American Homeschoolers with an Africentric approach to learning all the time. " BestHomeschooling.org A fantastic collection of articles and links curated by veteran homeschooler Lillian Jones. Christian Unschooling A simple site that describes in personal detail a family's growth into unschoolers. City Kids Homeschooling Kerry McDonald writes about learning with her three young children in urban settings, and brings her unique background as a corporate trainer, author, and education policy consultant. Crunchy Domestic Goddess Thought and wit about parenting and many other topics from an unschooling mother and environmental activist. Dayna Martin Dayna writes about radical unschooling, her work as The UnNanny. Do Life Right Lisa Cottrell­Bentley is a publisher, speaker, and unschooler who offers one on one e­mail counseling services for people striving to live a vegan lifestyle and/or an Unschooling Lifestyle. Her family has written a fiction series featuring homeschoolers, which is available at her site. Interest­Led Learning Christina Pilkington writes about her family's exploration of the world through community­based learning. She also publishes a useful daily newsletter, The Interest Led Learning Daily. ​ Learn in Freedom ​ A great resource for "how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you." The Natural Child Project Many articles and resources about compassionate parenting and natural learning. Homeschool World The site for Mary Pride’s work and Practical Homeschooling Magazine. Radical Unschoolers Network Support not just for unschooling, but for how to live an unconventional life. Sandra Dodd.com Ideas and principles about unschooling that Dodd and others are developing. Sue Patterson A mother whose unschooled children are now adults writes thoughtfully on a variety of topics related to education and raising children. You can join the Unschooling Blog Carnival from her site. ​ ​ Unschooling Adventures Blake Boles (author of Better Than College) provides international trips and retreats for people aged 14 to ​ ​ 22 and older. Unschooling Summit Michelle Barone, a certified family counselor, offers support and ideas for unschooling. Unschooling Catholics Their site's tag line: "Where Catholicism and Unschooling meet." Unschooling Circuit Riders ​ This Yahoo group lists all the statewide and larger unschooling conferences currently going on. UnschoolingNYC Amy Brougher Milstein's musings and descriptions about learning in Manhattan. Wendy Priesnitz.com A long­time publisher and author about unschooling, self­directed learning, and green family living. Her blogs contain much wisdom and many resources. .
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