Visit my Homeschool & Parenting Library...

For the past year I have been working on an on-line homeschool and parenting library. It is a collection of my thoughts and ideas on both subjects. There is even an audio file of a talk I gave in Frankfort in September, "How Living Books Teach," and a teleconference I did with another homeschool mom on how to use Sonlight to homeschool a large family.

You can find My Library here: Homeschool and Parenting Library

I hope you will find it helpful to see these posts in this easy to find format. In the past week I have had some phone calls from people asking many of the same questions that I speak to in this library.

Take care,
Jill

My Favorite Homeschool Websites and Books...

Helpful Websites:

• Literature to Supplement History(Over 800 books categorized by historic period and reading level)

• Living Books to Supplement Science

• 1000 Good Books List(Great Literature for children, organized by age level and genre)

• Preschoolers--How to keep them happy and occupied
  

• Organizing Your Homeschool (Podcasts that I did with two other ladies. You can go here http://www.sonlight.com/podcasts.html to get to the Sonlight podcast page. Scroll down to see Organizing Your Homeschool Podcast)
• Homeschool Laws (Find out what the homeschool laws are in you state)

• Supplementing Sonlight Curriculum (Supplementary movies, ideas and books to complement Sonlight Curriculum.)
  

My Favorite Homeschooling Books:
Click on any of these books for a more detailed description or to order:

• Books Children Love, Elizabeth Wilson
• The Charlotte Mason Companion, Karen Andreola
• The 3-R's Ruth Beechick (3 booklets, teaching grades K-3)
• You Can Teach Your Children Successfully (Lots of great, practical advice for teaching children in grades 4-8 at home)
• The Way They Learn, Cynthia Tobias
• Just getting started? Homeschool Resource Guide This is a small brochure that I worked on with two other ladies. We combined what we thought were the most important things you need to know to get started in homeschooling. Sonlight published it and they offer it for sale for a reasonable $3.50.

My favorite Parenting Book of All Time:

• The New Dare to Discipline James Dobson, Ph.D.

Articles

• What Kind of People Do I Want My Children to Be?

• How Literature Rich Homeschooling Awakens Your Child's Natural Passion For Learning.

For more of my Pre-School thoughts and suggestions:

• Results of a Scientific study-Why you should keep your pre-schooler home

• Play is work-Is Preschool Necessary?
• Tools or Toys? A lesson from my Dad
  
• How to tame your toys--Some practical advice
  
• Ideas to Keep Preschoolers happily occupied
• The Top Three Things You Need to Know if You Have a Pre-schooler