Recommended Reading

For further reading on Classical education:

Sayers, Dorothy. “The Lost Tools of Learning.” http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html

Veith, Gene Edward, Jr. and Andrew Kern. Classical Education: Towards the Revival of American Schooling. Washington, D.C.: Capital Research Center, 1997.

Joseph, Sister Miriam. “The Liberal Arts” from The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books, 2002.

For further reading on Charlotte Mason:

See Ambleside Online for an introduction to Charlotte Mason.  https://www.amblesideonline.org/WhatIsCM.shtml

MacCaulay, Susan Schaeffer. For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1984.

Glass, Karen.  Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition.  2014.

For further reading on Christian education:

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.

Veith, Gene Edward, Jr.. Loving God with All Your Mind. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 1987.

For further reading for Parents:

Lenore Skenazy, Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)

Foster Cline and Jim Fay, Parenting with Love and Logic

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind

James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love

Jessica Lahey, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

“Lawnmower Parents are Raising a Generation of Kids who Struggle with Adversity.” https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/30/lawnmower-parents-raising-generation-entitled-kids-handle-adversity

“The Myth of the Straight-A Student, and 6 Ways to Debunk it.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/09/12/the-myth-of-the-straight-a-student-and-6-ways-to-debunk-it/?utm_term=.cb71654054be

On “Helicopter Parenting” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2015/10/16/former-stanford-dean-explains-why-helicopter-parenting-is-ruining-a-generation-of-children/?utm_term=.69fd3385d154