Recommended Reading - attachment parenting and natural learning.
These books are recommended by the members of our online community, and are a mix of home learning and attachment parenting books. Most links are to Amazon.com so you can have a flick through them online. Try to source them locally, second-hand, your library, or you could try The Book Depository which offers free international shipping.
Above All, Be Kind: Raising A Humane Child in Challenging Times, Zoe Weil
The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff
The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections, Amanda Blake Soule
Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich (available online)
Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering, Dr Sarah J Buckley
Guerilla Learning, Grace Llewellyn
How Children Fail, John Holt
How Children Learn, John Holt
How Children Learn At Home, Alan Thomas
Learning All The Time, John Holt
Motherhood: How Should we Care for our Children?, Anne Manne
The Natural Child: Parenting From The Heart, Jan Hunt
Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life, Rue Kream
Parenting for a Peaceful World, Robin Grille
Parenting from Your Heart - Sharing the Gifts of Compassion, Connection, and Choice, Inbal Kashtan
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, Alfie Kohn
Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-Child Relationships from Reaction & Struggle to Freedom, Power & Joy, Naomi Aldort
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, Grace Llewellyn
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards & Punishments to Love & Reason, Alfie Kohn
The Underground History of American Education, John Taylor Gatto (free to read online)
The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School, Valerie Fitzenreiter
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom, Mary Griffith
The Unschooling Unmanual, collection of writings by various authors
With the Best of Intentions, by Noel Wilson
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