Review: Advice for choosing published curriculum
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
I did enjoy reading this short book. It's a sort of homeschool cheerleading book written in a way to make parents feel at ease with choices they make in teaching their children at home, and champions making choices about what's right for their own family rather than feeling you have to follow a particular model planned out by the school system or even another homeschool family. It does have the feel of a blog, with an informal and supportive vibe. Me being a parent who teaches at home and knowing the struggles and self-doubt which I often face, this book does impart a boost of confidence.However, I think I may have been expecting something which this book didn't offer. I write a lot of my own curriculum for my children as they are still quite young, and for some reason my expectation was that this book would help me to improve at that. Rather, it did seem more heavily geared toward homeschooling at the higher grades, and therefore discussed some of the different published curriculums that exist and their respective qualities. I can see where this may give families some direction in the process of choosing curriculum, and even understanding that a change in curriculum might sometimes be necessary. But I didn't feel the book imparted much of what I was hoping for. It might better be titled with the word "Choosing" at the beginning of its current title. Maybe further down the road I'll find the information more useful.