The Homeschool Mom of 2

Education at Home

About the Home Library

The library is where I will be listing the books that I have found helpful, quotes, etc. These are the categories of books that you will find on this page:

Homeschooling Books

Parenting and Self-Help Books

Organization and Other Homemaking Books

 

You will also find:

Famous Quotes

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The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto: This is the actual book, free to read online. Go to http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm. I highly recommend that everyone reads it.

Homeschooling Books

Christian Home Educators' Curriculum Manual Junior/Senior High by Cathy Duffy

Senior High: A Home Designed Form+U+La by Barbara Edtl Shelton

Reading lists For College-Bound Students: Get a Head Start on College Success by Doug Estell, Michele L. Satchwell, Patricia S. Wright

The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling by Debra Bell

The Big Book of Home Learning by Mary Pride

         Vol 1 = Getting Started

         Vol 2 = Preschool and Elementary

         Vol 3 = Teen and Adult

         Vol 4 = Afterschooling

Homeshooling the Teen Years by Cafi Cohen

Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days: Share a Day With 30 Homeschool Families by Nancy Lande

Homeschooling for Excellence by David and Micki Colfax

 

 

Parenting and Self-Help Books

Book Review:

You: On a Diet by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

Dr. Oz is Oprah's doctor. You may have seen him on her show.

This book makes a lot of sense. It explains how our bodies work when dealing with weight issues. It has a lot of great information, and is even a humorous read. I enjoyed it very much. The book tells about other reasons why we may weigh too much, offers tips and recipes, and so much more.

 

You: The Owner's Manual by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

 

Family First by Dr. Phil McGraw

 

GET OUT OF MY LIFE: But first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall? A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager by Anthony E. Wolf, Ph. D.

Organization and Other Homemaking Books

Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to Paradise by Pam Young and Peggy Jones

I'm Okay...But You Have A Lot of Work to Do! by Pam Young and Peggy Jones

Saving Dinner: The Menus, Recipes and Shopping Lists to Bring Your Family Back to the Table by Leanne Ely

Saving Dinner Basics: How to Cook Even if You Don't know How by Leanne Ely

Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life by Deniece Schofield

Famous Quotes

I love quotes. There are so many of them, that I could not possibly list them all. Here are some that I have come across recently:

 

"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right." ~ Confucius

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. H.W. Beecher

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Lincoln

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Author Unknown

Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. Clare Boothe Luce

Likely Mother (to son wandering around the room):
"What are you looking for?"
Son: "Nothing."
Mother: "You'll find it in the box where the candy was."  unknown

Story-Telling Dad
Six-year-old Mary woke up about two in the morning. "Tell me a story, mamma," she pleaded.
"Hush, darling," said mother. "Daddy will be in soon and tell us both one." unknown

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins,
Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
Pam Brown

"You can write ten times better than I can."

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on why he should be the one to write the declaration, 1776
 
"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community." Anthony J. D'Angelo
 
There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast. Erma Bombeck
 
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."  Albert Einstein
 
 
 
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." Abraham Lincoln
 
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."  Anatole France
 
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."  Emma Goldman
 
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." 
 B.F. Skinner
 
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."  Mark Twain
 
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." Alexander Pope - "An Essay on Criticism"
 
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley
 
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." John Holt
 
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
 
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln
 
"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."  Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
 
"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." Abraham Lincoln
 
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." George Washington
 
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." George Washington

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