| Description |
x, 300 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part I: Can homeschooling be both successful and stress-free? -- So this is homeschooling? -- Of course you can do it! -- Homeschooling's fifth column -- Getting off the trolley -- Part II: Homeschooling stress: prevention and remedy -- Why are true homeschoolers so balanced and bright? -- When are they ready for formal learning? -- How can they possibly be socialized? -- Thinking: if you want to hurry it, wait! -- Do you want super babes or super children? -- Great family health -- Part III: Making homeschooling successful -- How well do you know your pre-teens and teens? -- The specter of standardized testing -- The discipline that is discipleship -- Lesson plans -- why all that trouble? -- Worried about reading and the basics? Try this! -- True confessions of a perfectionist (PF) -- The real homework: family industries and service -- Getting organized is possible -- here's how -- Part IV: Effective homeschoolers share their wisdom -- Warnings from disappointed mothers -- A place of their own -- Father to the rescue -- The Pennsylvania absurdity -- The Plumfield school -- The almost astronaut -- The teaching boy who "learns differently" -- The Navy wife -- A single mother and her Washington winner -- The former Assistant Attorney General -- The physician on leave -- Words of wisdom from a pioneer -- The university kids -- The editor's wife -- An artist's perspective -- An overseas mother -- Waiting works -- Part V: Some encouraging information for parents and educators -- Getting into college -- What is a "working mother"? -- Where does that leave dad? -- The grandparent tradeoff -- History's wise lessons for educators -- How home education as a movement was born -- Support groups: how to win friends and influence people -- The big family-state quarrel -- What do we do about the big quarrel? -- Certified for what? -- Epilogue -- The Moore formula. |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of: Home school burnout. Brentwoood, Tenn. : Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1988. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-288) and index. |
| Subject |
Home schooling -- United States.
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Burn out (Psychology)
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| Added Author |
Moore, Dorothy N.
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Moore, Raymond S.
Home school burnout.
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| ISBN |
0785281754 |
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