
Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?
The Case for Helping Them Leave, Chart Their Own Paths, and Prepare for Adulthood at Their Own Pace
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Narrated by:
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Blake Boles
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By:
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Blake Boles
For some kids, school offers a positive and engaging experience. For others, it's a boring, stressful, and frustrating waste of time. If your child is in the second category, why keep tormenting them? Instead, why not help them find an educational environment where they feel genuinely motivated, excited, and empowered?
In this eye-opening book, Blake Boles makes the case for leaving conventional school and taking one of the many alternative paths through K-12 that exist today. He addresses parents' major concerns about unconventional education - Can my kids still go to college? Will they still be employable? How will they learn to work hard? - while highlighting the hidden benefits of self-directed learning, such as improved parent-child relationships, a more balanced decision-making process regarding college, and a heightened sense of autonomy and connection.
Drawing upon 15 years of work as a mentor and guide for adolescents in alternative and experiential learning environments - as well as his own unconventional life path - Boles weaves together narrative, theory, and research to build a powerful argument for granting children unusual levels of freedom and responsibility.
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It is a very comprehensive guide into modern time educational methods that you might already know, but never thought of as actual options for your family because you just didn't know enough about them. The author doesn't push you toward a particular method, but liberates you by giving you the knowledge about different choices available. I recommend this book to parents of children of any age.
A comprehensive guide into educational options
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This book makes a case for unschooling. It is a scary idea since we have been brought up to believe in schools and their importance in kids lives. But what if kids do not need school to be successful? What if schools cause more bad than good?
If you want to get answers to those and many more similar questions grab the book.
It is an easy yet trully fascinating read.
eye opening/ must read for every parent
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Worthy Listen
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Great read/listen
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a must for all who interact with teens
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The push I needed
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Very inspiring!
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Shift your perspective about school
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Balanced and informational book
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My son is a natural auto-didactic and school leaves him depressed and anxious. I will now consider an alternative to tradition schooling for him.
What a gift!
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