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Free Range Learning
Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything | Laura Weldon
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With more kids at home now . . . here is a book for parents, family members and friends who want to maximize this time for a deeper learning experience for their children and themselves. Free Range Learning will encourage and excite those who want their children to reap important benefits from this period of sheltering in place, learning at home. This is a book for anyone simply wanting some fresh ideas at this time, or those who wonder if a commitment to ongoing homeschooling might actually result in longer term benefits! The material in this book is backed by scientific and educational studies, along with the testimonies of scores of parents and kids from around the world. The work here is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Children are naturally free range learners. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process.
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ravenlee

I finished this book days ago and something has been weighing on me. It‘s so common for homeschool books/blogs to condemn traditional schools for the over-medication/diagnosis of learning disabilities, ADHD, etc. and to brag about kids being unmedicated and functioning well in homeschool (tagged book, I‘m looking at you). Can we all agree that overmedicating is bad but also try to dispel the stigma that needing meds is also bad? Cont below

ravenlee People who need medication for ADHD or any number of mental health issues need to know it is OKAY TO FUNCTION BETTER WITH PROPER MEDICATION. It‘s not better to tough it out or make do. I know several people, adults in their 30s-40s with multiple college degrees and successful careers, who got late-in-life ADHD diagnoses and are amazed how much better they function on meds. And they wish they‘d had these resources 20-30 years ago. 3y
ravenlee So homeschool gurus, please stop acting like homeschooling will “cure” your child. If there‘s truly an issue, let‘s allow kids access to mental health care without the stigma, ok? @Chrissyreadit @megnews our #YABuddyRead discussion brought this to a head in my thinking today, and I thank you for it. I was having trouble bringing it together. 3y
Chrissyreadit 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😘😘😘 3y
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Chrissyreadit I completely agree- and see/saw many complex issues around this in both my homeschool life and counselor life. My thoughts just won‘t fit in the comments space. 3y
megnews I don‘t homeschool though I did take my son with ADHD out of school for two years to do a charter school online program while we were first getting him on meds after his diagnosis. I agree that there is a full range of options which should all be considered and utilized if appropriate. 3y
Lindy Well said, Anne. 👏👏👏 3y
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This book reads like a textbook, which made it really hard to connect with it. And it‘s LONG (275 pages of double-column text). Though nominally supportive of general homeschooling, it‘s specific to unschooling for most of the text. I don‘t feel like I got much out of it, except for a few resources to look into. There are better, more current books out there.
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