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Product details Paperback 512 pages Publisher Windycreek (October 2000) Language English ISBN-10 0965130312

Homeschool Open House Nancy Lande 9780965130318 Books Reviews

• I have read the first book, Homeschooling A patchwork of Days, over and over every year. I was thrilled to see this follow-up with additional entries of other home schooling families.
• As a person interested in himeschooling because of my own eprsonal experience that I have not learnt most of what I have from educational institutions, "Homeschool Open House" is a most welcome addition to a field of literature that, in relation to the number of homeschoolers active today in the United States and elsewhere, is not well represented.
  
  Nancy Lande's first part of this series, Homeschooling A Patchwork of Days was less comprehensive but still provided some exceptioanlly touching stories of down-to-earth people who, as we see time and time again reading through the twoo books, manage to gain a great deal as a result of the flexible schedule provided by homeschooling. This flexibility is, as I see it, a critical virtue of homeschooling, along wiht the fact that it provides well-defined work for everybody within a family and values it in a way that can be described as very fair.
  
  The families in the book are varied some have only a single child, others five or six, but within "Homeschool Open House" there is, I should note, remarkably little of the religious motivation cited for homeschooling by people like Rod Dreher or Pat Buchanan. though many of the families do mention the Bible, it is always the routine, doctrinaire nature of public schooling that is so criticised by most families studied in both Lande's books.
  
  There is a great many lovely little stories about exactly what these homeschooling families do during their daily routine - things like cooking and day-tours that I wish I could do more but which I can never discipline myself to do effectively. It is perhaps because of my envy of these things that I enjoy reading "Homeschool Open House" as much as I do when I am travelling in an aimless way around Melbourne on buses. Some of the work they do reminds me on a second look of the advanced Chemistry textbooks I would emorise when a young child - and then get chided by my minder for pointing out facts students in Year 9 are not supposed to know (like how the gas laws aren't really true for real gases).
  
  All in all, I have found literature on homeschooling far too sparse for the curious and Nacy Lande has done an excellent job of showing the experience of so many families who practice this method of education.
• In this sequel to "Homeschooling A Patchwork of Days," Nancy Lande has once again opened up the lives of homeschooling families so that anyone can see that homeschooling is not only doable, but being done, and being done very successfully. What is most valuable for the person who wants to know about homeschooling in general is that there are 55 families here, each using a somewhat different style of homeschooling, but each family seems to be getting along just fine. One family, in which the parents are both long-haul truck drivers, talk about their adventures "On the Road." Some of the families, such as in the "Never O'Clock" and "Teacher Didn't Shave Today" chapters (which are in the section of follow-ups from "Patchwork") are willing to talk warts and all.
  There is a good balance of families that are religious, not so religious, and not religious at all. There are families that are more or less going it alone, and others that have teamed up with learning cooperatives or that take advantage of some part of a public school program. Only children; small families; big families; rural areas; big cities; working parents; single parents; the United States, Australia, Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom; extremely structured and very free and easy. It's all here!
  Recommended to journalists who want an overview of homeschooling philosophy; families considering the homeschooling adventure; skeptical relatives; anyone who likes to eavesdrop on other people's lives!
• Having decided to homeschool but needing a pep-talk, I chose this book because I wanted to know about the day-to-day of what homeschool life was like. This book was exactly the thing because it's like being a fly on the wall in 55 homes. The things I took away from it are (1) homeschooling, however you do it, is as much work as you think it will be so get ready, and (2) there are infinite ways to homeschool so go ahead and craft a lifestyle that is right for your family-- your kids will learn and thrive even if you don't do it exactly like the curriculum specifies. A very inspiring, very useful, very truthful book. Buy it and recommend it to your friends!
• I'll keep it simple...if you liked HomeschoolingA Patchwork of Days, you will at least like, if not love, Homeschool Open House. Not only does it do a five year follow-up on the original homeschooling families, but it has interviews with many more homeschooling families, from Alaska to Zimbabwe, some with one child, others with seven. I was inspired by some families, while I cringed at some of the unschoolers' choices. I am certainly looking forward to the next five-year follow up!