Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté
Rest, Play, Grow by Deborah MacNamara
Kiss Me: How to Raise your Children with Love by Carlos Gonzalez
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith Small
The Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning by Sally Goddard Blythe
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlich
Connected Parenting: How To Raise A Great Kid by Jennifer Kolari
Why Love Matters: How affection shapes a baby's brain by Sue Gerhardt
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith
Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic In Homeschool, Learning, And Life by Julie Bogart
A Gracious Space by Julie Bogart
Unschooling to University by Judy Arnall
Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love by David Albert
A Path of Their Own: Helping Children to Educate Themselves by Lael Whitehead
SelfDesign: Nurturing Genius Through Natural Learning by Brent Cameron and River Meyer
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Freedom to Learn - online articles by Peter Gray on the Psychology Today website
On the Wildness of Children, an essay by Carol Black
Schooling the World, a film by Carol Black
"Why Schools Don’t Educate," a chapter from John Taylor Gatto’s book Dumbing Us Down
"The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher," a chapter from John Taylor Gatto’s book Dumbing Us Down
Life of Fred series by Stanley F. Schmidt – a full math curriculum in a humorous story format
Bedtime Math series by Laura Overdeck – fun math riddles with three different levels of challenge
Sir Cumference series by Cindy Neuschwander
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci by Joseph D’Agnese
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain by Cheryl Bardoe
A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Age range: 8+)
YouCubed - Go to the “Tasks” section in the menu to find games and activities, sortable by grade level and topic. These are not online activities, but games and activities you can play with your child.
Critical Thinking Co. - The Critical Thinking Co. sells books that teach logical thinking, but for a free resource, you can sign up for their free puzzle of the week. You can even sign up twice, ie. for more than one age/grade level.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks - Math and literacy games and resources for teachers and students. In particular, Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks sells books of math games for use with cards and dice. They also sell all sorts of specialty dice.
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