A few of the cur­rent books beside my bed or those I’m re-read­ing to remind myself why I bought them in the first place! All these books should make you think.

• All Books by John Holt
• Home­school­ing for Excel­lence by Mic­ki and David Colfax
• Hard Times in Par­adise by Mic­ki and David Col­fax (Sev­er­al of their chil­dren went to Harvard)
• Dumb­ing Us Down: The Hid­den Cur­ricu­lum of Com­pul­so­ry School­ing by John Tay­lor Gatto
• Ris­inghill: Death of a Com­pre­hen­sive School by Leila Berg
• Sum­mer­hill, A Rad­i­cal Approach to Child Rear­ing by A. S. Neill
• Grow­ing up Gift­ed by Bar­bara Clark (all new par­ents should read it)
• Child’s Work by Nan­cy Wallace
• Bet­ter Than School by Nan­cy Wallace
• Home­school Burnout by Ray­mond & Dorothy Moore
• The Hur­ried Child by David Elkind
• The Dra­ma of the Gift­ed Child by Alice Miller and all her oth­er books
• All books by Torey Hayden
• The Mak­ing and Break­ing of Affec­tion­al Bonds by John Bowlby
• John Bowl­by, His Ear­ly Life, by Suzan Van Dijken
• Emer­gence by Tem­ple Grandin
• Think­ing in Pic­tures by Tem­ple Grandin
• A Thorn in My Pock­et by Eusta­cia Cut­ler (Tem­ple Grandin’s mother)
• The Horse Whis­per­er by Nicholas Evans
• The Baby Whis­per­er by Tra­cy Hogg
• You’ll Nev­er Nan­ny in This Town Again by Suzanne Hansen

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