Homeschooling can be confusing even to someone who has been teaching for a while. Which is why I am excited to bring you The Brave Learner: FINDING EVERYDAY MAGIC IN HOMESCHOOL, LEARNING, AND LIFE By JULIE BOGART Foreword by Susan Wise Bauer.
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ABOUT THE BRAVE LEARNER
Publishers Weekly bestseller · A joyful and accessible homeschool guide to making learning a part of everyday life
Parents who are deeply invested in their children’s education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture a love of learning amid childhood chaos, parental self-doubt, the flu, and state academic standards?
In this book, Julie Bogart distills decades of experience–homeschooling her five now grown children, developing curricula, and training homeschooling families around the world–to show parents how to make education an exciting, even enchanting, experience for their kids, whether they’re in elementary or high school.
Enchantment is about ease, not striving. Bogart shows parents how to make room for surprise, mystery, risk, and adventure in their family’s routine, so they can create an environment that naturally moves learning forward.
If a child wants to pick up a new hobby or explore a subject area that the parent knows little about, it’s easy to simply say “no” to end the discussion and the parental discomfort, while dousing their child’s curious spark.
Bogart gently invites parents to model brave learning for their kids so they, too, can approach life with curiosity, joy, and the courage to take learning risks.
About Julie Bogart
Julie Bogart is the popular voice of common sense and compassion in the homeschool world. She raised and home educated her five children who are now adults. She’s the creator of the innovative writing program called Brave Writer, the homeschool coaching community, The Homeschool Alliance, and the popular fast-growing practice called Poetry Teatime.
Julie’s highly anticipated manual for homeschooling, THE BRAVE LEARNER: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life, will be released on February 5, 2019 (Tarcher Perigree; Penguin Random House). Available now for pre-order.
Her other books include a series of non-sectarian daily readings for home educators, and an anthology of poems to read aloud.
Julie draws from her work with tens of thousands of homeschool families over the last 20+ years, and her own homeschool journey to enrich the homeschool and parenting experience.
She also loves being an “awesome adult,” which includes running, kayaking, and traveling the world to visit her globe-trotting adult kids!
Credentials: Professional writing, ghost-writing, editing. International homeschool speaker. Author of over 200 pieces of homeschool curricula, selling over 100,000 copies, including The Writer’s Jungle. BA UCLA; MA Xavier University.
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