Letting Go as Children Grow

Book Reviews, Child-led Life

The first time I read Letting Go As Children Grow was before having little J and I found it quite interesting. Having read more books on parenting styles and attachment parenting in particular, I returned to this book and just devoured it the second time around. It is full of real world experiences, examples on how to implement the book’s advice, and actual modern scientific studies to back up all of the advice given.

Teach Your Own

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The revised edition of John Holt’s Teach Your Own by Pat Farenga is almost twenty years old and still much of it rings true. This version has almost 50% of the text in Pat’s personal notes, commenting on and supplementing the original work by the father of the unschooling movement, and it brings another dimension (and the perspective of an unschooling parent) to John’s work.