A Parent's Guide to Home Schooling (Parent's Guide series) [Paperback]

Tamra B. Orr (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1931199094 | ISBN-13: 978-1931199094 | Publication Date: April 2002

Whether a family is just beginning to explore the option of homeschooling their children or is already homeschooling and needs additional assistance, this guide will lead them to answers, resources, and organizations that can help. From answering tricky legal questions about requirements and the use of the public school playground at recess to raising well-rounded children away from the mainstream school system, the advice and encouragement in this book will help parents find exactly what they need. Essays from homeschooling experts and parents with valuable experience to share are included, along with detailed listings of local and national homeschool support groups, state-by-state laws, and recommended books and publications.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Tamra Orr is the author of 101 Ways to Make Your Library Homeschooling Friendly and 125 Things Homeschoolers Can Do on the Internet and was the technical editor for The Unofficial Guide to Homeschooling. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

About the Author

Tamra Orr is the author of 101 Ways to Make Your Library Homeschooling Friendly and 125 Things Homeschoolers Can Do on the Internet and was the technical editor for The Unofficial Guide to Homeschooling. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Mars Publishing, Inc. (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931199094
• ISBN-13: 978-1931199094
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,339,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Introduction to Homeschooling!, June 9, 2002

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Magpie Ima (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Parent's Guide to Home Schooling (Parent's Guide series) (Paperback)

After having read lots and lots of books on the subject of homeschooling, there are a couple of features which make this book stand out in a growing field. For anyone who has been put off by the overtly (and possibly exclusively) religious overtones of some homeschooling books, A Parent's Guide will come as a breath of fresh air. While including input from people from a variety of faiths and backgrounds, the book comes across as broadly inclusive, which is a major point of interest for those who've ever felt that only "certain types of people" are attracted to homeschooling. This book spotlights the growing diversity of the wider homeschooling community.

The presentation is also fairly unique. Using a number of formats including question and answer as well as essays by both experts and parents "in the trenches", the author manages to share a huge amount of information in a lively and very readable style.

I highly recommend this book for those considering homeschooling as well as those who've been at it for a while. Newcomers will find the majority of their big questions answered and more experienced homeschoolers are bound to find many inspirational gems. This is definitely a book to include in any essential homeschooling library.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Answers all the nitty gritty questions, June 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: A Parent's Guide to Home Schooling (Parent's Guide series) (Paperback)

This book is a great resource for the beginning homeschooler, and will continue as a great resource throughout your home-learning experience. It answers all the nitty gritty questions that you may be asking (or BE asked by others). Things like "How do I prepare my teen for college and how do I teach things I don't understand myself?" and "What happens when my child doesn't want to homeschool?"

Each chapter is well organized and facilitates reading "cover-to-cover" or finding answers to a specific questions, quickly. Each chapter includes "In the Trenches" (essays from "real life" homeschoolers) and "From the Experts" sections that lend a unique perspective. Comforting and informative. Highly recommended.

3.0 out of 5 stars Needs a good editor., October 2, 2009

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K. Phillips - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Parent's Guide to Home Schooling (Parent's Guide series) (Paperback)

While I agree the lack of fundamentalist Christian dogma so ubiquitous to the homeschooling book genre was a big plus, this book is simply too out of date and too poorly written for me to give it more than three stars. There is some good information in this book, but it's hard to slog through all of the "In the Trenches" and "From the Experts" testimonials. While I appreciate hearing the perspectives of real homeschooling parents, these essays have clearly not been edited for anything other than spelling. Obviously not written by professional writers, many of them ramble on and on with no discernible point. Really, the whole book would have benefited significantly from some heavy editing. It's not the worst homeschooling book out there, but I am sure there are many others that are better written and more up-to-date.