Choosing Home: 20 Mothers Celebrate Staying Home, Raising Children, and Changing the World

"Insisting that both women and men must work in equally high paying and prestigious jobs to attain gender equality explicitly assumes that high paying jobs reflect the pinnacle of success and importance. We disagree. When mothers (and increasingly fathers) stay home—whether they earn a paycheck never, now, or in the future—they change the world for the better by raising and prioritizing children, cultivating family and community, and investing in the future . . ."

Book Review, Parenting, Homeschooling Current IssuesPatrick FarengaJune 23, 2015Choosing Home, Kerry McDonald, Rachel Chaney, Parenting Comment

Deep and Personal: Two Parents Write about Becoming Unschoolers

Fin and Rye drying foraged chokecherries. The boys know where to find wild mushrooms and berries, "and Lord knows what else [they] are eating out there," Hewitt writes on his blog . . .

Learner-centered curricula, Parenting, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaAugust 14, 2014Homeschooling in America, Ben Hewitt, Kerry McDonald, unschoolingComment

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