HOMESCHOOLING
Homeschooling • Unschooling • Democratic School • Children’s Play • Child’s Emotions • Talking to Kids about and Sex • Tiger Mother • Learning to Read • Harm of Praise • Harm of Rewards • Self-Directed Learning • Child’s Social Skills • Child’s Talents • Child’s Self-Esteem • Learning Math and much more
Homeschooling articles:
• The Advantages of Learning to Read Later
• Joining your child’s activities can stifle her creativity and confidence
• Guidance on nurturing your child's musical talent
• Video-Interview about Self-directed Education and Homeschooling
More articles about homeschooling...
Lecture and question & answers
Watch 2 hours webclass video about unschooling. In the “deep“ classes Naomi speaks briefly and works with individual parents on their questions, doing deep inquiry designed to free the self from limiting thoughts about the particular issues.
• Naomi Aldort raised her three sons without schooling. All three graduated universities with excellence.
• She has been a keynote speaker at many homeschooling and unschooling conferences world wide, including AERO, Rethinking Education, Canada homeschooling organization, as well as groups in Europe and Australia. Her articles and advice columns about homeschooling, music, self-directed learning and parenting have been published in magazines internationally.
• Naomi offers advice on unschooling and homeschooling as well as on alternative schools options and all parenting issues. Her guidance is flexible and accommodating family and children’s special situations and needs. She also recommends alternative schools when needed, the democratic schools, Reggio Emilia and other schools that respect the child’s inner guide.
Trusting Our Children Trusting Ourselves
(Please note, this CD set is not the same as the book, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves)
This comprehensive, indispensable 7 CD set contains six keynotes given by Naomi Aldort at the unschooling/homeschooling conference, Rethinking Education in Dallas, Texas. It covers practically all the major parenting and self-directed learning issues in one amazing package.
Disc 1: Rethinking Education: Debunking common assumptions about child development.
Disc 2: Part 1 - Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves Part I: Bring peace and unconditional love into your relationship with your children by understanding your own reaction as different from your child’s needs.
Disc 2: Part 2 - Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves Part II.
Disc 3: Debunking Praise: Find out why you really praise and at what price.
Disc 4: Children’s Behavior and Emotions: Includes many questions from audience members, and Aldort’s skillful guidance about understanding children so they can be the best of themselves.
Disc 5: Self Directed Learning: Why children learn best when they follow their own path, timetable and direction, and how to support them toward their own fulfillment.
Disc 6: Equality, Respect and Freedom for Children: From chores to bed time and dinner; how to live with children in a way that they care and respond, not out of fear, but out of joy and love, of their own free will.
Education quotes:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
- Albert Einstein
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
- Albert Einstein
“People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”
– Lev Vygotsky
“I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school.”
– Woody Allen
“Pedagogy is a way to get someone to learn something they don't want to learn. That's what pedagogy is about. It's a crooked idea, and basically, if you're a teacher, you know you're spending time looking for tricks: How can we get these little people who aren't interested in the subject, because they didn't choose to be there themselves? How can we make them do it? how to force it on them and still make it look like we're all having fun with it? And it is another way to learn to lie.”
– Naomi Aldort
Recommended books and authors:
John Holt: How children learn, how children fail, freedom and beyond, Teach your own, Learning all the time
A.S. Neill: Summerhill, Freedom not License
Grace Llewellyn: The Teenage Liberation Handbook; how to quit school and get real life
Daniel Greenberg: Free at Last: Sudbury Valley School (first democratic school.)
Peter Gray: Free to Learn
Pat Farenga, Former editor of Growing Without Schooling magazine
Alfie Kohn: Punished by Rewards, The Homework Myth, No contest; the case against competition, Feel Bad education, The case against Standardized testing
John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing us Down, Weapons of Mass Instruction
Matt Hern: Deschooling our Lives
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