{"id":6160,"date":"2025-05-08T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:52:00","slug":"homeschooling-youre-doing-it-right-by-just-doing-it-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=6160","title":{"rendered":"Homeschooling &#8211; You&#8217;re doing it right by just doing it &#8211; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Those three hours you spent at the park while you read an absorbing novel and your child dug in the dirt were not only okay, they were exceptional for development.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Ginny Yurich from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1000hoursoutside?__cft__[0]=AZUJGteumQ55FDbra09rSAkxJpXaJEKiu15216MQwUwjbjGHMHhoTJFdm6rhqaqQauItYK4aqv5UrgNp8Wx4r0U3qhnKS16CECkyHOVApUjOIb5OBadpCAX7N-wG02l-nujMINyw2q_1reYaibezLI4HSz-loUElIpjWJ9AdbQC86utz62II3xS55xO_iin5ji3jAQh2up8dqCGKmsLkR95D&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">1000 Hours Outside<\/a> in her new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1000hoursoutside.com\/homeschooling\">Homeschooling: You&#8217;re doing it right just by doing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is such a good book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been homeschooling for a while, Ginny&#8217;s gentle and personal writing style will reassure you that you&#8217;ve done the right thing for your children AND you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re considering a home education journey with your family, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1000hoursoutside.com\/homeschooling\">this book<\/a> will explain the beauty of a relaxed yet intentional approach that gives your children not only a love of learning but also enables them to find passions to pursue naturally and organically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, a former homeschool mom who is now a grandma, this book will help you support your own children as they begin educating your grandchildren at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s full of solid quotes from long-time home education experts and school teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would make a great gift for a family on the fence about this fabulous way to &#8220;do&#8221; family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1000hoursoutside.com\/homeschooling\">Pre-order a copy<\/a>. Really. You&#8217;ll probably want to get several to pass around to friends. I keep thinking I need to send it to every one of the legislators in our state (and others) who are on the fence about restrictive homeschool legislation that&#8217;s currently being debated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Thankful to 1000 Outside for shooting me a digital copy of the book in advance in exchange for an honest review.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-07.49.08.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-07.49.08-1024x501.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-07.49.08-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-07.49.08-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-07.49.08-768x376.png 768w, https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-07.49.08.png 1355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Those three hours you spent at the park while you read an absorbing novel and your child dug in the dirt were not only okay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}