What We’re Reading: Joyful Toddlers & Preschoolers (Faith Collins)

Joyful Toddlers & Preschoolers: Create a Life You and Your Child Both Love by Faith Collins was a great book and, after listening to the audiobook, I bought a hardcopy to keep on my shelf. It's one of those I'm going to be rereading every couple of months because I want to be sure I'm implementing …

What We’re Reading: Free to Learn (Peter Gray)

If you start perusing the pages of any alternate schooling, freedom advocating, or unschooling text, you will likely see Peter Gray quoted somewhere. He’s a psychologist and researcher who studies education from an evolutionary biological perspective. In other words, how children learn naturally. His book, Free to Learn, began through his writings for Psychology Today …

What We’re Reading: Sage Homeschooling (Rachel Rainbolt)

“Childhood isn’t naturally a race ; it’s a season of life.”Rachel Rainbolt, Sage Homeschooling (51) Rachel Rainbolt’s Sage Homeschooling embodies this principle as Rainbolt chronicles her research and personal experiences as an unschooled of her three children. She says, “Living life is the ultimate stage for learning . We have forgotten this . Our ancestors …