Customer Reviews

Anyone Can Homeschool: How to Find What Works for You

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This book is aimed exclusively to those interested in homeschooling for religious reasons. I am not Christian and am not thinking about homeschooling for religious reasons. I tried very hard to read it with a blind eye to the religious references, but found it virtually impossible. There are some good essays, but everything positive is interpreted in light of religious views. There are also some admonitions to organizing your kitchen to be pleasing to God, which isn't why I bought the book. A much more balanced book is David Guterson's "Family Matters -- Why Homeschooling Makes Sense".

There are a lot of good books about homeschooling, full of inspiration and practical ideas. Those books cause you to do something different and better than you did it before.
Unfortunately, this book did not do that for me. It was too esoteric and philosophical to be of much practical help, and it did not inspire me to do anything differently than I already do.
A person exploring homeschooling would find the ideas in this book discouraging rather than encouraging. A parent would come away feeling like homeschooling would take far too much time and would be far too complicated. There is so much better out there; this book was a waste of money and time.

I agree with the second review entry.

With the title "Anyone Can Homeschool", I thought the book would offer practical information on how that was possible.

There is some practical info in the first half of the book. I especially found the info on homeschooling laws very enlightening.

However, the second half of the book (written by the other author) I found to be unreadable because of the heavy Christian rhetoric. I gave up and didn't finish reading the book.

I found the content in the last chapters was only very loosly related to the heading of the chapter. I found that to be frusterating. In the chapter on "Choosing the Right Curriculum," there were no references to ANY Curriculum; just references to books as a whole without naming any in particular.

The book does have a nice index in the back of the book with listings of books, cataloges, resource guides, magazines conventions & curriculum fairs, legal services, support organizationsand other resourses.

If you can get it cheap you might find some useful info in it, & if you don't, you wouldn't have lost to much on the chance.

Read this book and especially appreciated the stories about the Tyler family. Though anecdotal were very encouraging.

Yup.

Anyone can homeschool.

Doesn't matter how ignorant you are, how self-important or self-absorbed.

Anybody can indoctrinate your child/children that you are better than the whole wide world, thanks be to the Christian God, and teach the children a big fat nothing.

The book is actually perfect to illustrate what a terrible mistake homeschooling without regulations has turned out to be.

In that sense, it deserves 5 stars.

As edification, it deserves 0.