This book is one of my top two absolute, all-time favorite homeschooling books. I am a voracious reader, so that is saying a lot! (BTW, we are working on offering my other all-time favorite book very soon.) If I had the resources, I would give a copy of this book to every single new homeschooling parent. It is a book about the Classical method of education, but the material is presented in a way that is also very compatible with Charlotte Mason's methods. The Classical method is presented in a practical and distinctly Christian format unlike some other popular Classical education books that are extremely humanistic in their worldview.

We bought this book when I was at a crisis point in my homeschooling journey. I was discouraged and was begging God to transform my vision of my marriage, children, and homeschooling. This one resource, more than anything else aside from the Word, did that for me. We actually got the book for me and the audio seminar for my husband, but ended up listening to the audio seminar together before I could read the book. I wept in the car as I listened. There is a list of 10 things to do with your child before age 10, and as I listened to that list, I was overcome and told my husband that all of the days he had come home to find me frustrated and saying that "I hadn't gotten any homeschooling done," I HAD done the things on the Bluedorn's list!! This book is so freeing, encouraging, and affirming, and will be of enormous benefit to you no matter what age your children are. BUY THIS BOOK. I would give it to you if I could.