Homeschooling Your Child Step-by-Step: 100 Simple Solutions to Homeschooling Toughest Problems [Paperback]

LauraMaery Gold (Author), Joan M. Zielinski (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima Home Learning Library | Publication Date: May 28, 2002

Master the Top 100 Homeschooling Issues
New to homeschooling? Looking for successful homeschooling strategies? Look no further! Inside is a one-of-a-kind guide to educating your child at home, using techniques that can be easily customized to match your teaching philosophy, parenting style, and religious beliefs. Written in an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format, this book is a comprehensive resource loaded with creative teaching strategies and all the essential basics of homeschooling. Step-by-step, the authors show you how to:
·Deal with the legalities of homeschooling
·Make ends meet financially
·Develop a personalized teaching philosophy
·Discover your child's learning style
·Create an effective curriculum for your family
·And much, much more!
"With characteristic wit and zeal, Gold and Zielinski explain all you will ever need to know about homeschooling. Peppered with encouragement from veteran homeschoolers, this book offers valuable insight into a wide variety of homeschooling lifestyles."
—Mary Ann Kelley, owner, TheHomeSchoolMom.com

"Interactive and provocative. I finally feel like I've been treated like an intelligent person. Homeschooling Step-by-Step doesn't miss a single step!"
—Rhonda Johnson, homeschooling mom

"Wow is the best word I can use to describe this book!"
—Ellen Doolin, Usborne book consultant and homeschooling mom

"Easy to read, concise, reliable, and jam-packed with crucial information."
—Marji Meyer, founder, School of Abraham

Editorial Reviews

Review

"With characteristic wit and zeal, Gold and Zielisnki explain all you will ever need to know about homeschooling. Peppered with encouragement from veteran homeschoolers, this book offers valuable insight into a wide variety of homeschooling lifestyles."
—MARY ANN KELLEY, owner, TheHomeSchoolMom.com


"Interactive and provocative. I finally feel like I've been treated like an intelligent person. Homeschooling Step-by-Step doesn't miss a single step!"
—RHONDA JOHNSON, homeschooling mom

"Wow is the best word I can use to describe this book!"
—ELLEN DOOLIN, Usborne book consultant and homeschooling mom

From the Inside Flap

Master the Top 100 Homeschooling Issues
New to homeschooling? Looking for successful homeschooling strategies? Look no further! Inside is a one-of-a-kind guide to educating your child at home, using techniques that can be easily customized to match your teaching philosophy, parenting style, and religious beliefs. Written in an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format, this book is a comprehensive resource loaded with creative teaching strategies and all the essential basics of homeschooling. Step-by-step, the authors show you how to:
·Deal with the legalities of homeschooling
·Make ends meet financially
·Develop a personalized teaching philosophy
·Discover your child's learning style
·Create an effective curriculum for your family
·And much, much more!
"With characteristic wit and zeal, Gold and Zielinski explain all you will ever need to know about homeschooling. Peppered with encouragement from veteran homeschoolers, this book offers valuable insight into a wide variety of homeschooling lifestyles."
?Mary Ann Kelley, owner, TheHomeSchoolMom.com

"Interactive and provocative. I finally feel like I've been treated like an intelligent person. Homeschooling Step-by-Step doesn't miss a single step!"
?Rhonda Johnson, homeschooling mom

"Wow is the best word I can use to describe this book!"
?Ellen Doolin, Usborne book consultant and homeschooling mom

"Easy to read, concise, reliable, and jam-packed with crucial information."
?Marji Meyer, founder, School of Abraham

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles (May 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761535888
• ISBN-13: 978-0761535881
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,013,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Thorough but hard to use, October 26, 2002

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Audrey Minnow "audreyminnow" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Homeschooling Your Child Step-by-Step: 100 Simple Solutions to Homeschooling Toughest Problems (Paperback)

The most annoying thing about this book is the constant reference to two Internet sites: [one of which] is very user-unfriendly and already contains broken links, and [the other], which appears not even to exist anymore. With such a recently published book I would have expected some kind of a forwarding address or apology at the missing site; it's misleading to promise further information that can't be delivered.

That said, the book does deliver a very thorough survey of various homeschool methods and teaching strategies. This thoroughness can be a little overwhelming at times, but it's up to date and is a definite improvement on older books that mention only three or four homeschooling styles. I never did figure out exactly how the "100 toughest problems" fits into all this, though; considering the format of the book (50 strategies for this, 60 approaches to that), it would have made sense to have another chapter just for those!

Worth a look, but not as great as it could have been.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So You've Got an Unsupportive In-Law?, March 26, 2004

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"mothermeghan" (Effingham, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Homeschooling Your Child Step-by-Step: 100 Simple Solutions to Homeschooling Toughest Problems (Paperback)

Of all the homeschooling books I own (and I own alot) this is absolutely the best one for slapping down in front of an unsupportive family member (or neighbor) to prove you're doing the right thing.

The authors' research is awesome. Their listing of approaches to homescholing is the MOST comprehensive that anyone has ever done. (By the way, the Amazon listing here is wrong. There are two authors, and the "Your Child" is not part of the title. Maybe this is a new edition?)

Anyway, I can't say enough about how terrific this book is. You could adopt some new approach every week for your child's ENTIRE homeschool experience and still have enough options left over to keep your GRANDKIDS excited about schooling!

Whether your kids are preschool age or ready for college, this book will improve your homeschooling experience.

If you can't buy a copy today, do what I did: go to your local library and ask for one. It'll become so valuable you'll definitely want a copy for your home library!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Information is missing, May 16, 2005

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Mom of two "Jess" (APO, AP United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Homeschooling Your Child Step-by-Step: 100 Simple Solutions to Homeschooling Toughest Problems (Paperback)

What information that is in the books is wonderful. I was really excited to read though the book. A lot the information they said would be on their website that wasn't in the book, like curriculum reviews. The problems that the links don't work. It only contains a link to buy the book you probably already own. It is a real let down.