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Book of the Week: "Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life"

Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life
Rue Kream

Written in a question & answer format, Rue explores unschooling, helping many parents answer questions they may not even know they have.
I found the book interesting and helpful as we travel down the road further away from traditional homeschooling. Rue's approach is more of a radical unschooling which incorporates a parenting style as well as a learning style for the child. And that is further into unschooling than I want to go. But I didn't know that until I read this book.

For anyone who is considering or already home educating their children, I do recommend reading this book. Or even for anyone who just is looking for a different (better) way of relating to children.

What are you reading?
Ann

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