unschooling book
Carrie DeFrancisco
I need some constructive advice from the moms in the trenches. I am
trying to figure out if I should continue to pursue a current book
project I have been working on or if I should just give it up. As of
this week, I have received yet another denial letter from a book
publishing company. I can't seem to find a company that seems
interested in my manuscript. Perhaps there really isn't a market for
it. This is where your opinions are much needed. When I approached
both sets of grandparents, friends and extended family members about our
decision to homeschool, everyone was filled with questions and
concerns. And when I tried to explain unschooling, well, we just won't
go there. I had read every book about homeschooling I could get my
hands on but most of them were about HOW to homeschool. I wanted to
give my parents and in-laws a book that discussed the advantages of
homeschooling. They really weren't worried at first about the nitty
gritty of day to day activities. They were worried about
"socialization," testing, teaching the basics, and believe it or not,
college. I know there are several great books such as Homeschooling for
Excellence I could have given them but it, too, spends a great deal of
time discussing how and what to teach. At the time, I had wished there
was a book a could give to skeptical family members that they could read
at their leisure that discussed their concerns and offered suggestions
as to how to get involved. The book I have written is geared for this
audience, the concerned friends and family, not so much the moms (or
dads) who will actually be doing the "schooling." Would such a book
have been helpful to you when you made the "big announcement" or would
such a book still be helpful to you for all of the questions you still
receive about your decision to homeschool? I would really appreciate
your feedback. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I will stop my search
for a publishing company.
Thanks for your help,
Carrie
trying to figure out if I should continue to pursue a current book
project I have been working on or if I should just give it up. As of
this week, I have received yet another denial letter from a book
publishing company. I can't seem to find a company that seems
interested in my manuscript. Perhaps there really isn't a market for
it. This is where your opinions are much needed. When I approached
both sets of grandparents, friends and extended family members about our
decision to homeschool, everyone was filled with questions and
concerns. And when I tried to explain unschooling, well, we just won't
go there. I had read every book about homeschooling I could get my
hands on but most of them were about HOW to homeschool. I wanted to
give my parents and in-laws a book that discussed the advantages of
homeschooling. They really weren't worried at first about the nitty
gritty of day to day activities. They were worried about
"socialization," testing, teaching the basics, and believe it or not,
college. I know there are several great books such as Homeschooling for
Excellence I could have given them but it, too, spends a great deal of
time discussing how and what to teach. At the time, I had wished there
was a book a could give to skeptical family members that they could read
at their leisure that discussed their concerns and offered suggestions
as to how to get involved. The book I have written is geared for this
audience, the concerned friends and family, not so much the moms (or
dads) who will actually be doing the "schooling." Would such a book
have been helpful to you when you made the "big announcement" or would
such a book still be helpful to you for all of the questions you still
receive about your decision to homeschool? I would really appreciate
your feedback. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I will stop my search
for a publishing company.
Thanks for your help,
Carrie
Tami Labig-Duquette
I definetly would have bought it! Still would! Unschooling for us in the
beginning was soooo hard because we had already been conditioned by ps.
WE are still going through the deschooling, but everything seems to be
falling into place without much effort, and I dont worry as much :). I leave
that to my parents and my sisters :)
Tami
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beginning was soooo hard because we had already been conditioned by ps.
WE are still going through the deschooling, but everything seems to be
falling into place without much effort, and I dont worry as much :). I leave
that to my parents and my sisters :)
Tami
>From: Carrie DeFrancisco <cdefrancisco@...>_________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: unschooling dotcom list <[email protected]>, Carrie
>DeFrancisco <cdefrancisco@...>
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] unschooling book
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:24:05 -0800
>
>I need some constructive advice from the moms in the trenches. I am
>trying to figure out if I should continue to pursue a current book
>project I have been working on or if I should just give it up. As of
>this week, I have received yet another denial letter from a book
>publishing company. I can't seem to find a company that seems
>interested in my manuscript. Perhaps there really isn't a market for
>it. This is where your opinions are much needed. When I approached
>both sets of grandparents, friends and extended family members about our
>decision to homeschool, everyone was filled with questions and
>concerns. And when I tried to explain unschooling, well, we just won't
>go there. I had read every book about homeschooling I could get my
>hands on but most of them were about HOW to homeschool. I wanted to
>give my parents and in-laws a book that discussed the advantages of
>homeschooling. They really weren't worried at first about the nitty
>gritty of day to day activities. They were worried about
>"socialization," testing, teaching the basics, and believe it or not,
>college. I know there are several great books such as Homeschooling for
>Excellence I could have given them but it, too, spends a great deal of
>time discussing how and what to teach. At the time, I had wished there
>was a book a could give to skeptical family members that they could read
>at their leisure that discussed their concerns and offered suggestions
>as to how to get involved. The book I have written is geared for this
>audience, the concerned friends and family, not so much the moms (or
>dads) who will actually be doing the "schooling." Would such a book
>have been helpful to you when you made the "big announcement" or would
>such a book still be helpful to you for all of the questions you still
>receive about your decision to homeschool? I would really appreciate
>your feedback. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I will stop my search
>for a publishing company.
>Thanks for your help,
>Carrie
>
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Tracy Oldfield
Would such a book
have been helpful to you when you made the "big
announcement" or would
such a book still be helpful to you for all of the
questions you still
receive about your decision to homeschool? I would
really appreciate
your feedback. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I
will stop my search
for a publishing company.
Thanks for your help,
Carrie
Carrie, I suppose it would depend if the book agreed
with my POV on the whole thing! And it's always hard
for parents, for example, to tell someone who might be
objecting to say 'here, read this,' at least I wouldn't
want to tell someone else what to read! It sounds a
good idea in principle, but might have a very limited
audience, perhaps. Actually, I'm going tomorrow to a
book 'launch' (it's third :-) ) for a book published at
the end of last year called Free Range Education, it's
British, the website's www.free-range-education.co.uk
I suppose if you think it's a worthwhile project, then
just keep plugging away until you find someone who
agrees with you! Or do a 'Gatto' and publish it
yourself...
Tracy
have been helpful to you when you made the "big
announcement" or would
such a book still be helpful to you for all of the
questions you still
receive about your decision to homeschool? I would
really appreciate
your feedback. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I
will stop my search
for a publishing company.
Thanks for your help,
Carrie
Carrie, I suppose it would depend if the book agreed
with my POV on the whole thing! And it's always hard
for parents, for example, to tell someone who might be
objecting to say 'here, read this,' at least I wouldn't
want to tell someone else what to read! It sounds a
good idea in principle, but might have a very limited
audience, perhaps. Actually, I'm going tomorrow to a
book 'launch' (it's third :-) ) for a book published at
the end of last year called Free Range Education, it's
British, the website's www.free-range-education.co.uk
I suppose if you think it's a worthwhile project, then
just keep plugging away until you find someone who
agrees with you! Or do a 'Gatto' and publish it
yourself...
Tracy
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Carrie --
I think the book idea sounds great. I would find it useful even now --
especially now, actually! As we've made our way through seven months of
homeschooling (my 6 & 8 year old daughters), I have moved steadily towards
unschooling, almost without realizing it. It works for us and it definitely
works for my daughter with ADHD. It absolutely evolved and was not my
initial plan, so I, too, look for something to offer to friends or family
members who don't seem to get it, are genuinely curious or disapprove (I run
into all three.)
Good luck -- and keep us posted.
Nancy
I think the book idea sounds great. I would find it useful even now --
especially now, actually! As we've made our way through seven months of
homeschooling (my 6 & 8 year old daughters), I have moved steadily towards
unschooling, almost without realizing it. It works for us and it definitely
works for my daughter with ADHD. It absolutely evolved and was not my
initial plan, so I, too, look for something to offer to friends or family
members who don't seem to get it, are genuinely curious or disapprove (I run
into all three.)
Good luck -- and keep us posted.
Nancy
Vaughnde Edwards
Actually I think its a wonderful Idea. You know many
publishing companies don't see it that way. However, How big is your manuscript?
Would you like to try making limited copies of your own instead of sending it to
a publishing company? If so, make the copies at kinkos, add cardstock that has
been stamped and have them bound either at kinkos or buy your own binder machine
which isn't that expensive anyway and charge a reasonable fee for the books. And
there ya have it.
Jessica
-----Original Message-----I need some constructive advice from the moms in the trenches. I am
From: Carrie DeFrancisco <cdefrancisco@...>
To: unschooling dotcom list <[email protected]>; Carrie DeFrancisco <cdefrancisco@...>
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] unschooling book
trying to figure out if I should continue to pursue a current book
project I have been working on or if I should just give it up. As of
this week, I have received yet another denial letter from a book
publishing company. I can't seem to find a company that seems
interested in my manuscript. Perhaps there really isn't a market for
it. This is where your opinions are much needed. When I approached
both sets of grandparents, friends and extended family members about our
decision to homeschool, everyone was filled with questions and
concerns. And when I tried to explain unschooling, well, we just won't
go there. I had read every book about homeschooling I could get my
hands on but most of them were about HOW to homeschool. I wanted to
give my parents and in-laws a book that discussed the advantages of
homeschooling. They really weren't worried at first about the nitty
gritty of day to day activities. They were worried about
"socialization," testing, teaching the basics, and believe it or not,
college. I know there are several great books such as Homeschooling for
Excellence I could have given them but it, too, spends a great deal of
time discussing how and what to teach. At the time, I had wished there
was a book a could give to skeptical family members that they could read
at their leisure that discussed their concerns and offered suggestions
as to how to get involved. The book I have written is geared for this
audience, the concerned friends and family, not so much the moms (or
dads) who will actually be doing the "schooling." Would such a book
have been helpful to you when you made the "big announcement" or would
such a book still be helpful to you for all of the questions you still
receive about your decision to homeschool? I would really appreciate
your feedback. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I will stop my search
for a publishing company.
Thanks for your help,
Carrie
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Erin M
I think it's a great project! Such a book would be very useful to me now. I
just started homeschooling this year and my grandmother(I'm fourteen)really
doesn't like the homeschooling idea at all and she doesn't even get
unschooling. She's always talking to me about how great high school will be
and all the stuff I'll be doing and reminding me to do my "homework". She
means well and I love her very much, but it drives me crazy!
Sometimes it takes ages to find a publisher. My favorite author(who has
written over forty books)said she could paper walls with the rejection slips
she's gotten.
So don't give up!!
Love, Erin
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just started homeschooling this year and my grandmother(I'm fourteen)really
doesn't like the homeschooling idea at all and she doesn't even get
unschooling. She's always talking to me about how great high school will be
and all the stuff I'll be doing and reminding me to do my "homework". She
means well and I love her very much, but it drives me crazy!
Sometimes it takes ages to find a publisher. My favorite author(who has
written over forty books)said she could paper walls with the rejection slips
she's gotten.
So don't give up!!
Love, Erin
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Carrie DeFrancisco
You are a gem, Erin. Your mother must be proud.
Carrie
Carrie
Johanna
Carrie,
I do know of one book in that line of thinking
called Going Home to School by Llewellyn B. Davis.It is available through
the Ellijah Company and is an excellent resource explaining worldviews and why
to homeschool but it is not written from an unschooling point of view. Are you
targeting publishers that are positive about homeschooling?
Johanna
----- Original Message -----From: Carrie DeFranciscoSent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 3:24 PMSubject: [Unschooling-dotcom] unschooling bookI need some constructive advice from the moms in the trenches. I am
trying to figure out if I should continue to pursue a current book
project I have been working on or if I should just give it up. As of
this week, I have received yet another denial letter from a book
publishing company. I can't seem to find a company that seems
interested in my manuscript. Perhaps there really isn't a market for
it. This is where your opinions are much needed. When I approached
both sets of grandparents, friends and extended family members about our
decision to homeschool, everyone was filled with questions and
concerns. And when I tried to explain unschooling, well, we just won't
go there. I had read every book about homeschooling I could get my
hands on but most of them were about HOW to homeschool. I wanted to
give my parents and in-laws a book that discussed the advantages of
homeschooling. They really weren't worried at first about the nitty
gritty of day to day activities. They were worried about
"socialization," testing, teaching the basics, and believe it or not,
college. I know there are several great books such as Homeschooling for
Excellence I could have given them but it, too, spends a great deal of
time discussing how and what to teach. At the time, I had wished there
was a book a could give to skeptical family members that they could read
at their leisure that discussed their concerns and offered suggestions
as to how to get involved. The book I have written is geared for this
audience, the concerned friends and family, not so much the moms (or
dads) who will actually be doing the "schooling." Would such a book
have been helpful to you when you made the "big announcement" or would
such a book still be helpful to you for all of the questions you still
receive about your decision to homeschool? I would really appreciate
your feedback. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I will stop my search
for a publishing company.
Thanks for your help,
Carrie
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Valerie
Hello Everyone,
I'm a long-time member, but I haven't posted here in awhile. I've
been busy writing, editing and publishing a book on how I unschooled
my daughter all of her life. Please read a sample chapter at our
website: http://www.ubpub.com
We have been given a release date of July 1st, so I'm now able to
start taking advance orders through the website.
Thank you,
love,
Valerie Fitzenreiter
I'm a long-time member, but I haven't posted here in awhile. I've
been busy writing, editing and publishing a book on how I unschooled
my daughter all of her life. Please read a sample chapter at our
website: http://www.ubpub.com
We have been given a release date of July 1st, so I'm now able to
start taking advance orders through the website.
Thank you,
love,
Valerie Fitzenreiter
[email protected]
In a message dated 6/10/2003 9:19:06 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
[email protected] writes:
> <I'm a long-time member, but I haven't posted here in awhile. I've[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> been busy writing, editing and publishing a book on how I unschooled
> my daughter all of her life. Please read a sample chapter at our
> website: http://www.ubpub.com
>
> We have been given a release date of July 1st, so I'm now able to
> start taking advance orders through the website.
>
> Hi Valerie!
> I have sent SO many people to the website. I'm really glad the book is
> almost out, I'll have to add it to our mini-library of unschooling resources!!
> Good to hear from ya.
>
> Ren
Mary
From: "Valerie" <valfitz@...>
<<I'm a long-time member, but I haven't posted here in awhile. I've
been busy writing, editing and publishing a book on how I unschooled
my daughter all of her life. Please read a sample chapter at our
website: http://www.ubpub.com
We have been given a release date of July 1st, so I'm now able to
start taking advance orders through the website.>>
I loved what I read of the book so far. I am looking forward to reading the
rest. What I did read tonight made me cry. It really helped me with
something I was having a problem with in wanting things for my kids that
they didn't want. Just posted about it actually. Thank you and
congratulations.
Mary B
<<I'm a long-time member, but I haven't posted here in awhile. I've
been busy writing, editing and publishing a book on how I unschooled
my daughter all of her life. Please read a sample chapter at our
website: http://www.ubpub.com
We have been given a release date of July 1st, so I'm now able to
start taking advance orders through the website.>>
I loved what I read of the book so far. I am looking forward to reading the
rest. What I did read tonight made me cry. It really helped me with
something I was having a problem with in wanting things for my kids that
they didn't want. Just posted about it actually. Thank you and
congratulations.
Mary B