Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home

by John Holt, Pat Farenga

Overview

The classic guide to teaching children at home for a new generation of homeschooling parents
 
In 2019, there were more than two million children being homeschooled. That number doubled during the pandemic and is now likely to continue increasing as more parents worry that school might not be the best place for their children to learn and grow.
 
Teach Your Own helped launch the homeschooling movement; now, its timeless and revolutionary message of recognizing the ways children come to understand the world has been updated for today’s environment. Parents and caregivers will discover how to navigate:

• Learning in a classroom versus learning in the world
• The difference between a learning difficulty (which we all experience every time we try to learn anything) and a learning disability.
• Schedules that achieve the homeschooling-work-life balance that you want as a family
• The relationship between learning and play
• Homeschooling and technology
• And much more.

 John Holt's warm understanding of children and his passionate belief in every child's ability to learn have made this book an essential resource for over forty years to homeschooling families.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306926211
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	655,625
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John Holt (1923-1985), one of this country's leading educational and social critics, was the author of ten influential books which have been translated into fourteen languages. Known both as a passionate reformer and as "the gentle voice of reason" (Life magazine), John Holt offered insights into the nature of learning that are more relevant today than ever before.
 
Pat Farenga, writer and president of Holt Associates, brings more than 34 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience to help children and parents learn in their own ways. He lectures all over the country and is the father of three home-schooled daughters.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword xi

Introduction xxv

1 Children are Not the Future-They are the Present 1

2 Homeschooling, Parenting, and Higher Education 15

3 Living with Children 28

4 Learning in the World 50

5 Living and Working Spaces 71

6 Serious Play 82

7 Learning Without Teaching 96

8 Learning Difficulties 125

9 Children and Work 143

10 Homeschooling in America 169

11 How to Get Started 193

12 School Response 227

Homeschooling Resources

A Selected Bibliography 259

B Correspondence Schools or Curriculum Suppliers 272

C Helpful Private Schools and Learning Centers 274

D Homeschooling Organizations 276

E Learning Materials 311

F Opportunities and Activities 319

Notes 321

Index 329