Monday Medley: Free Kindle books for unschoolers and homeschoolers

Here are some fun, free Kindle books you might be interested in. They include Popsicle recipes, The Wind in the Willows and several others.

Here are 18 health tricks to use. I haven’t tested them for verification on my own, but let me know how they work for you if you try them.

This TED Talk by Jerry Mintz of AERO (the Alternative Education Resource Organization) is really interesting. I’ve been a fan of AERO for years and love what they do.

Have you heard of Crash Course videos? They’re brief lessons on various subjects on YouTube. I haven’t checked any of them out yet but plan on doing so this week.

Penelope Trunk has a hard-hitting piece about how schools violate the fundamental rights of children. I am new to Trunk’s work but I’m already getting hooked.

Check out Connected Parenting if you haven’t yet. It looks like a really good site to help foster peaceful, noncoercive parenting. The same goes for I Heart Parenting.

Find out how to make your own homemade toothpaste from coconut oil here.

Have you read Don’t Go Back to School by Kio Stark? It looks really interesting.

Here is a lovely quote about trust and caring from one of my heroes, Mr. Fred Rogers.

This one from Douglas Adams is also good.

I love this post about politeness by Laura Grace Weldon. I love most of her stuff, really.

Another high school valedictorian is speaking out against schooling. Sensing a pattern here? I’ve known several valedictorians myself and most of them hated school.

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