Books on homeschooling in general usually don’t impress me all that much. The way I homeschool is unlike the school-at-home many of those books talk about. The single book that had the most influence on my life as a homeschooler was For the Children’s Sake, by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. By all means, find a copy of this book and read it. It’s interesting, it’s absorbing, and it gives you a solid understanding of what’s really important in your home and your homeschool.

Dana, if you haven’t read that one, do! You’ll love it and I think you’ll agree with all or almost all of it. It fits perfectly with what I’ve read on your blog about the way you homeschool.

Nodins Nest–that about summarizes it. The whole yard, too!

Thank you, wounded lily…I hope you are feeling better soon.

And let me think about that, Vasilly. I don’t buy a great deal of books specifically about homeschooling. I just buy a lot of books about the rest of the world and we read those together.

Jody, thank you for stopping by! And I agree. It was nice to run into someone who was asking questions out of curiosity rather than as some sort of condemnation of something they didn’t really know that much about.

Thank you so much for finally commenting, Gabriel. High school was an adjustment for me, too. And I was public schooled all my life. My daughter “plays school” and then she sits at the desk and gets all formal. I used to make her sit at a desk, used a pointer and even had her raise her hand to answer questions or use the restroom. But I relaxed eventually.