The Call of the Wild and Free
Reclaiming the Wonder in Your Child’s Education, A New Way to Homeschool

I didn’t love this book. Perhaps it’s because this is my 9th year of homeschooling and I’ve already read or heard or learned everything the author lays out in this book. Yes, don’t push early academics. Yes, let them play a lot, especially when they’re little. Yes, read living books as much as possi......more

Warning—this review is going to be rather harsh. I was actually expecting a lot from this book although I suspected it would not completely align with my own homeschooling philosophy. What I found as I read was a book much more repetitive, cliché, and “my way or the highway” than I expected. First—t......more

2.5 stars. The tone of this book came off as smug and inconsistent. Some of the chapters were like a pep talk and others felt like passive condemnation. The author was insistent she was inclusive of all homeschooling types, yet her own personal anecdotes and those of her “tribe” she chose to include......more

I have been homeschooling for twenty years and I have to say this is one of those books I would recommend to other homeschool educators. If you are a new homeschooling parent then I would say read Susan Schaefer Macaulay’s book For the Children’s Sake first, Charlotte Mason’s six books on education......more

Reads more like an internet manifesto instead of an interesting book. Few ideas that I really disagree with but lots of repetition. Probably good as a general overview for people who have done very little reading on home educating.......more