{ "item_title" : "The Kitchen Table Revolution", "item_author" : [" Rebekah L. Ricks "], "item_description" : "You're not crazy. You're called.They told you homeschooling was extreme.They told you your kids would be weird. Unsocialized. Behind. Sheltered. They told you to trust the experts, trust the curriculum, trust the system, trust anyone except the woman who carried those babies and knows them better than anyone on earth.They were wrong.Rebekah Ricks taught inside the traditional classroom for more than a decade before she walked out and founded The Homeschool Connection in 2013. She holds degrees in advanced mathematics and history. She has taught everything from third grade through high school, including speech, drama, and (her favorite) Algebra 2. And she is raising two boys at her own kitchen table, living proof that the most radical thing a mother can do is raise a child who thinks.In The Kitchen Table Revolution, Book One of The Kitchen Table Manifesto Series, Rebekah answers the question every homeschool mother has whispered to herself at 10pm with cold coffee and a crying kindergartener: Am I doing this right?The answer is yes. And here is why.Inside you will find: Why the kitchen table has always been the most revolutionary classroom in AmericaThe seven lies the system tells mothers to keep them quiet and compliantWhat twenty-five years of teaching experience, on both sides of the desk, revealed about how children actually learnThe Scripture, the data, and the history that will steady you on the hard daysHonest answers about socialization, testing, college, and every question your mother-in-law keeps askingPermission to stop apologizing and start teachingThis book is for the mother who: Is considering homeschooling but terrified to startIs already homeschooling and needs a word of encouragementIs done being called too much, too extreme, or too protectiveKnows deep down she was called to this, and just needs someone to say it out loudThis is not a curriculum guide. This is not a schedule. This is not another Pinterest-perfect homeschool aesthetic telling you to wake up at 5am and grind flour from scratch.This is a battle cry for the mother who already knows, deep down, that she was called to this.Pull up a chair, mama.The coffee is still warm, and the revolution starts here.Peace in the chaos. Grounded in Christ and way too much coffee.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/825/860/9798258609212_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "7.40", "online_price" : "7.40", "our_price" : "7.40", "club_price" : "7.40", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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