Home Grown Kids - A Practical Handbook For Teaching Your Children at Home - A Book Review

In this day and age, education is more important andIn part one of the book, titled "Family Or The State?",
vital for the very survival of our nation's future thanyou find provocative titles such as "The Hand That
ever. And, the most important equation of that ability toRocks The Cradle..." or "Parents In Charge" and, right
survive is found in our children. As we continue to seekaway, you get the sense where this book is going: a
the best curriculum and schooling money can buy, wehead on collision with the status quo regarding the
find ourselves in a dilemma: the skyrocketing cost pereducation of the child.
child to educate them coupled with ever-loweringIn part two of "Home Grown Kids" titled "Steps In
standards of expectation. Many parents are deeplyParenthood" you will receive extensive yet easy to
concerned as to what to do in order to turn thiscomprehend advice, starting with "Setting The Stage
situation around, especially in light of the rest of theFor Birth" and ending in chapter nine "The Reasoning
world's interest ensuring that their children, and bySevens, Eights and Nines".
default their country, receive what is necessary toComing from the standpoint that the educational
excel academically, thus the whole of societysystem has it exactly backwards when it allows
benefiting as a result.developmentally challenged children to stay home, yet
In the world of education, as we have progresseddemands by law that "normal" children receive a public
from the one room schoolhouse to gradeseducation outside the home, "Home Grown Kids" takes
kindergarten through high school and on to college, onethe position that it is just as vitally important to have
thing tends to stand out: the child's age being thethe option to teach all children at home, therefore
primary determining factor as to what grade they areeliminating altogether the differences imposed by
assigned. Unfortunately, that is often not a precursor tosociety.
guarantee good learning since it is a known fact thatYou will find "Home Grown Kids" to be a wonderful
not all children are created equal simply because theysource of encouragement as well as that needed
are the same age. Into this arena comes a series of"push back" to the status quo in order to more
books that provide some well-needed informationintelligently control your child's destiny when it comes to
addressing this dilemma.his or her education. Honestly, who better to determine
Following in the footsteps of "Better Late Than Early"the course of a child's future than the parent? With
and "School Can Wait" Raymond and Dorothy Moore"Home Grown Kids" this is exactly what you will
have compiled an easy to read, down to earthreceive to make that determination.
approach to teaching children at home with "HomeWith a wealth of references and resources available,
Grown Kids". As it is stated, this is a practical guidealong with a forward by Dr. James C. Dobson, "Home
when it comes to teaching within the home by theGrown Kids" is sure to occupy a prominent place in
adults who care the most about the children: theyour library.
parents.